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The more modest place became the picture better; yet, as my eyes grew accustomed to the half-light, all the characteristic qualities came out all the hesitations disguised as audacities, the tricks of prestidigitation by which, with such consummate skill, he managed to divert attention from the real business of the picture to some pretty irrelevance of detail. Mrs.
My landlord was father and clerk and all together, and we were married, and very merry we were; though I confess the self-reproaches which I had upon me before lay close to me, and extorted every now and then a deep sigh from me, which my bridegroom took notice of, and endeavoured to encourage me, thinking, poor man, that I had some little hesitations at the step I had taken so hastily.
He turned about, and I thought he started to behold us. At this my courage instantly revived, and I called and signed to him to draw near, and he, on his part, dropped immediately to the sands, and began slowly to approach, with many stops and hesitations.
At the end of it stood a pretty little cottage, in front of which Pedro was standing motionless, with clasped hands and drooping head. Lawrence hesitated to disturb him, but as Quashy had no such hesitations, and rode smartly forward, his companions followed. Pedro turned with a grave look as they came up, and said "My home. I bid you welcome." "Your home!" echoed Lawrence, in surprise.
By this daring march he placed two armies, amounting to 160,000 men, on the north of Napoleon's lines; and his personal influence checked, even if it did not wholly stop, the diplomatic loiterings of the Swedish Crown Prince. Bernadotte's hesitations were finally overcome by the news that Blücher was marching south towards Leipzig.
If he wished to follow up his success of the previous spring he must refuse no more orders: he must not let Mrs. Van Orley slip away from him. He knew there were competitors enough ready to profit by his hesitations, and since his success was the result of a whim, a whim might undo it. With a sudden gesture of decision he caught up his hat and left the studio. On the landing he met Kate Arran.
If this crippled ship had been full of troops instead of hay they would equally have let her slip through their fingers. I stayed the best part of an hour with Gouraud. He can throw no light from the French side upon the reason for the strange hesitations of our Governments.
As always, when he was with her, his influence was paramount. "The boat is under that clump of bushes," he whispered. "Oh, Dave, I'm not goin'," she murmured. "Then I'll go straight to the house an' have it out with the old man," he answered. His voice rang gay with the triumph of victory. He did not intend to let her hesitations rob him of it. "Some other night," she promised.
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk. At the church the scenery changed. The chestnut avenue opened into a road, smooth but narrow, which led into the untouched country. She followed it for over a mile. Its little hesitations pleased her.
"If I had to choose the man I should prefer to be," he said once, "I would be Prince Andras Zilah, because he knows neither my useless discouragements, apropos of everything and nothing, nor my childish delights, nor my hesitations, nor my confidence, which at times approaches folly as my misanthropy approaches injustice; and because, in my opinion, the supreme virtue in a man is firmness."
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