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To the greatest task man ever undertook our Commonwealth has applied itself, will continue to apply itself with no laggard hand.
Miss Wedmore, if she were to decide in his favor, might well aspire to be the wife of a bishop some day. And what could woman wish for more? He was no laggard in love either. On the very morning after the arrival of Max and Dudley, Mr.
With every laggard shovelful of dirt, he glanced over his shoulder apprehensively, watching Mack Nolan crawl into the back of the car and settle himself, with an audible sigh of satisfaction, on top of the load.
They could not advance for two or three days at least, while the five lay in a splendid covert only two miles from them. Laggard day came, with a dusky sky, obscured by heavy clouds and the rain still pouring. It was several hours after sunrise before it ceased and the sky began to clear. Then the others awoke and looked out. "A big storm and I never heard a thing," said Paul.
Thus the laggard on the path of evolution has always the sense of being hunted and driven by his fate, while the man who intelligently co-operates is left perfectly free to choose the direction in which he shall move, so long as it is onward and upward. The second great law under which this evolution is taking place is the law of cause and effect.
Moritz, Egypt or New York, there was no time to hunt up the vanished or to wait for the laggard. She did not know; though she fancied Strefford's newly-developed pride would prevent his revealing to any one what had passed between them. For several days after her abrupt flight he had made no sign; and though she longed to write and ask his forgiveness she could not find the words.
"Despair not, but give thyself to thy desires and thy happiness, and wear not thy heart out till for thee the day comes when Thou wilt implore, while Osiris, the god whose heart beats no longer, will not hear thy petitions. "The mourning of a world will not restore happiness to a man who is lying in the tomb; use, then, thy days of happiness and in delight be no laggard.
Over the snow and ice that now hid the lake the seven dogs that were hauling his corpse strained and tugged, ever and anon breaking into a trot as George and Duncan, running on their snowshoes on either side of the komatik, urged them forward with Eskimo exclamations or cracked their long whip over a laggard. No need to urge any one of them on, however, when they came in sight of the post.
While loitering in these smooth waters, waiting for the laggard wind, up came a shoal of dolphin, ready as at all times to attach themselves for awhile to the ship. Nothing is more singular than the manner in which deep-sea fish will accompany a vessel that is not going too fast sometimes for days at a time.
"It really vexes me," observed Zenobia, as we left the room, "that Mr. Hollingsworth should be such a laggard. I should not have thought him at all the sort of person to be turned back by a puff of contrary wind, or a few snowflakes drifting into his face." "Do you know Hollingsworth personally?" I inquired. "No; only as an auditor auditress, I mean of some of his lectures," said she.
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