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Who was he?" asked Spargo, intuitively conscious that he was coming to news. "Is his name there?" The old man ran the tip of his finger down the list of names. "There it is!" he said. "John Maitland." Spargo bent over the fine writing. "Yes, John Maitland," he observed. "And who was John Maitland?" Mr. Quarterpage shook his head.
He did not give much heed to her words, but coldly asked, in the same tongue: "Where is my daughter?" Barbara, in the next room, heard his voice, and her first unthinking thrill of pleasure was quickly followed by a sinking of her heart which chilled and saddened her happy face. Intuitively she knew what would happen. "She is here," Mrs. Coolidge replied. "She will be so glad! Barbara!
It was the cold, impassive, scrutinising face of an aged dame of such overweening pride and keenness that he seemed to feel himself pierced through by her gaze. He had heard of the severity of the Maréchale de Noailles "Madame l'Etiquette" Cyrène's patroness, and knew intuitively that this was she. The danger of his situation became instantaneously real.
From the day I had entered Florida, every one I met had seemed to know me intuitively for a New Englander, and most of them I could not imagine how had divined that I came from Boston. It gratified me to believe that I was losing a little of my provincial manner, under the influence of more extended travel. But my pride had a sudden fall.
In her primitive way Kitty had intuitively apprehended the main truth, and that was enough to justify her in contributing to Mona Crozier's punishment. Kitty's perceptions were true. At the start, Mona was in nature proportionate to her size; and when she married she had not loved Crozier as he had loved her.
It is good for the little lads to play with their friends; they jostle, push, and wrestle, and simulate little, happy struggles with one another in harmless conflict. The young muscles are toughening. It is good. Boyish chivalry develops, enlarges, expands. The young learn quickly, intuitively, spontaneously. They perceive the obligations of noblesse oblige.
So far from this, they saw intuitively a difficulty or a danger, and addressed themselves unbidden to remove it.
"You being a woman, cannot imagine the situation. I believed myself to be Teresa's accepted lover; and so I knew intuitively, did all my three companions; their faces revealing their thoughts to me, as did mine to them. Whatever you women do in the presence of your rivals, I know not. Men rage. It is not often, either, that a man encounters more than one rival at a time.
The gentry of the neighborhood, also, including the members of the grand jury, addressed government on his behalf for somehow there was created among those who knew the parties, or even who heard the history of their loves, a sympathy which resulted more from those generous impulses that intuitively perceive truth, than from the cooler calculations of reason.
In covering him, always stay back of him, where you can watch him, and tackle him just in the nick of time if the ball is passed to him. Many new men have an idea that one knows intuitively how to score, but it is not so. The various ways must be learned.
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