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The chyliferous vessels derive a very great proportion of reparative materials; there is found but little excrementitious residue, the blood is enriched and its course accelerated, while the impulsive force of the heart and arteries is strong and more lively.
Erasmus himself had at one time directed the religious thought of the impulsive, sensitive, restless young man. When he had, in 1520, suddenly sought refuge in a convent, he had expressly justified that step towards Erasmus, the condemner of binding vows.
His own eyes did not echo it; anger, rather, rose in them, cold fierceness, against himself, it was apparent, as well as against the world that he suspected. He was not impulsive; he was not demonstrative; but he got up and put his hand on her shoulder. "I don't mean to torment you, like the rest of them," he said. "I don't mean to ask and be refused. Forget what I said.
Now, with your permission, since there is no more to say upon the subject, I will return to my friends." He would have left her with the words, but she put out an impulsive hand. "But, Bertie " He took the hand, looking straight into her eyes, all his formality vanished at a breath. "Ask me no more, little one," he said. "You have asked too much already. But you do not understand.
From the last morning when he had wheeled, in our old big room, and dashed across it and thrown his arms around me in his own impulsive, irresistible way since that morning I had never seen him. Letters, plenty. More money was needed always. John always thought that the world owed him a living.
"My little daughter," he said very gravely, but not unkindly, "my responsibility in regard to your training weighs very heavily on my mind; it is plain to me that you will make either a very good and useful woman, or one who will be a curse to herself and others; for you are too energetic and impulsive, too full of strong feeling to be lukewarm and indifferent in anything.
"Conservative? why, it's never to rush on anything; to oppose rushing; to to be a bulwark against innovations. To prefer something you have tried, and know." "Like you?" asked Hulda. "Yes, your benefactor, instead of having some impulsive passion. Of course, you never loved in this place?" "It is the only place I know.
The embarrassment met his sterner mood in a head-on collision, so that for a moment the impulsive speech failed him. She spoke first. "That was Winkleman, I suppose," she said. "I did not want to appear. What is decided?" "Decided?" he stammered, not knowing where to look, but unable to keep his eyes from straying. "Yes. Is it too late? Can he prevail with this M'tela after all?"
He guessed, at once, that it would be Morton's roadster, ready to take him away, and, impelled by a sudden spasm of pity for the man who was now tabooed he hurried toward the front entrance and fate willed it that he should arrive at the threshold just at the very instant when Patricia took that impulsive step nearer to Morton, reaching her arms out toward him, as she did so, and Duncan plainly heard the words she uttered, "Good bye, Dick; and God bless you."
"It has been in my father's family a great many years. He was very fond of it," she answered, and with a sudden, impulsive movement she reached over and set the bowl aside. "That's better," he declared, "much as I admire the bowl, and the roses." She coloured faintly, and smiled. The feast of reason that we are impatiently awaiting is deferred.
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