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I envy the Turks for their sedentary constitutions, which seem no more to require exercise than an oyster does or a toad in a stone. In this respect, I am by disposition as true a Turk as the Grand Seignior himself; and approach much nearer to one in the habit of inaction than any person of my acquaintance.
"And I discovered you yesterday," added Rob. Ptolemy looked rather crestfallen, and then, seeming to consider that my discovery had been succeeded by inaction, which must mean non-interference, he heartened up. "Now," I demanded, "I want you to begin at the time you left the hotel and tell me everything and why you did it."
The same causes as before occasioned its inaction internal misgovernment, and the passing over of the Lucanians once more to the Roman party in the year 456; to which fell to be added a not unfounded dread of Agathocles of Syracuse, who just at that time had reached the height of his power and began to turn his views towards Italy.
Then pulling herself sharply together, she turned and hurried down the corridor. For a second Marjorie stood rooted to the spot. Could she believe her ears? Was it really Mary, her soldier chum, with whom she had stood shoulder to shoulder for so many years, who had thus arraigned her? Her instant of inaction past, she darted down the corridor after Mary.
Mike, as he walked out of the pavilion to join Bob, was not conscious of any particular nervousness. It had been an ordeal having to wait and look on while wickets fell, but now that the time of inaction was at an end he felt curiously composed. When he had gone out to bat against the M.C.C. on the occasion of his first appearance for the school, he experienced a quaint sensation of unreality.
And Crane need commit no crime, unless inaction were a crime just leave things as they were. In the eyes of the world Mortimer was a thief; he would never claim Allis so branded. Crane with a word could clear the accused man; he could go to David Cass and force him to confess. But why should he do it sacrifice all he held dear in life?
Her voice gathered strength as she spoke. "Oh, forget what I said I didn't mean it!" But again he seemed sunk in inaction, like a man over whom some baneful lethargy is stealing. "John John forget!" she repeated urgently. He looked up at her. "You realize what it will mean?" "Yes I realize.... But it must be.... And it will make no difference between us...will it?" "No no.
Here we have the aberration of exhaustion, the morbid fury of a life on the point of extinction. As is generally the case, work bestows a peaceable disposition on the grave-digger, while inaction inspires him with perverted tastes. Having no longer anything to do, he breaks his fellow's limbs, eats him up, heedless of being mutilated or eaten up himself.
Chester kept his eyes on all three. Chester was plainly nervous. Had he been in the danger himself his nerves would have been as hard as steel, but the inaction while someone else was doing the work made him impatient and fanciful. Finally General Rentzel approached the Swiss minister and paid his adieus. Then he moved toward the cloakroom. Halfway there he was intercepted by Mrs.
The fact remains that Jackson's camps, six miles to the rear, were never once alarmed, nor could Banks obtain any reliable information. This period of repose was spent by Jackson in reorganising his regiments, in writing letters to his wife, and, like his old class-mate, Gordon, in admiring the scenery. It is not to be supposed that his enforced inaction was altogether to his taste.
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