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But, mind you, I shall have to tell them confidentially the reasons why we had to let you go." "Of course! That's only fair," said Jimmy, his sober common sense impelling him to this admission. "And when this tempest blows by, you can have any other territory that comes open, Jim," volunteered Falkner; "that is provided that you cut the jokes out.
'Strange, Ronald Le Breton thought to himself, as he walked along the Embankment between Westminster and Waterloo, some weeks later the day of Herr Max's trial, 'I had a sort of impulse to come down here alone this afternoon: I felt as if there was an unseen Hand somehow impelling me. Depend upon it, one doesn't have instincts of that sort utterly for nothing.
There fell a silence between them, and a vague feeling of uneasiness began to grow up within her. His brown face was granite-like in its immobility, but it was exceedingly grim. Something stirred within her at last, impelling her to action. She got up. "Do you see that blasted tree right away over there with horrid twisted arms that look as if they are trying to clutch at something?"
It was but little after sunrise, when Uncle Venner made his appearance, as aforesaid, impelling a wheelbarrow along the street. He was going his matutinal rounds to collect cabbage-leaves, turnip-tops, potato-skins, and the miscellaneous refuse of the dinner-pot, which the thrifty housewives of the neighborhood were accustomed to put aside, as fit only to feed a pig.
With the impelling "More, farther" before her eyes, she took care that she did not lack the admiration for which she had never ceased to long, and to which, in better days, she had possessed so well- founded a claim.
Almost it seemed to her there would be shame in not loving her husband, if Raven expected it of her. None of these things were formulated in her mind. They were only shadowy impulses, like the forces of nature, persuading, impelling her. She had no words; she had scarcely, as to the abstractions she dimly felt and never saw, any reasoned thought.
I had to look her in the eyes, since nothing else would do her; and, as I did so, all the might of manhood in me rose up in hot revolt against the lie I would have told her. That unfaltering, impelling gaze of hers drew the truth from my lips in spite of myself. "No, I don't wish you to marry Frank Douglas, a thousand times no!" I said passionately.
If a female creature at the Mills broke the great social law, there was no leaning towards the weakness of pity for her, Janway's was not sufficiently developed, mentally, to deal with gradations or analysis of causes and impelling powers.
No. 5 now was to be seen swiftly coming up the eastward front so as to be within supporting or hearing distance curiosity, not sympathy, impelling; and so there were no less than five men, four of them old and tried soldiers, all within fifty yards of the angle made by the two sentry beats, all wide awake, yet not one of their number could later tell just what started it.
There are, indeed, general objections to the use of the steam-engine for impelling boats, from which no particular mode of application can be free. These are: First. The weight of the engine and of the fuel. Second. The large space it occupies. Third. The tendency of its action to rack the vessel, and render it leaky. Fourth. The expense of maintenance. Fifth.
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