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But, in the simple questions submitted to the Peruvian judge, delay would have been useless; and the Spaniards, familiar with the evils growing out of long-protracted suits, where the successful litigant is too often a ruined man, are loud in their encomiums of this swift-handed and economical justice.12
He was now surrounded with official and other personages, both Florentine and foreign, who had been awaiting the issue of the long-protracted council, maintaining, except when he was directly addressed, the subdued air and grave silence of a man whom actual events are placing in a painful state of strife between public and private feeling.
He shut up all the places of public amusement, and even the public walks and promenades, and put an end to all feastings, revels, and entertainments. Every man capable of bearing arms was enrolled in the army, and the troops thus formed were brought out daily for severe and long-protracted drillings and reviews.
He was full of pride and delight at the way in which Ned had outwitted the pirates at last and run away with the ship; and could find no words in which to express his admiration of Sibylla's courage under her long-protracted and trying ordeal, and his gratitude at her escape; and when at length the stories of the various actors in this little drama had been fully told, and he had congratulated them upon their marvellous deliverance, he wound up all by saying: "Well, I took the ship out, it is true, and I lost her; but, thanks be to God, I can now face my owners with the words, `There is your ship, in as good order and condition as when you placed her in my charge; and if I didn't get her back from the pirates for you, I at least had the training of the man who did, which is almost as good, I take it."
The blows of fortune are differently received according to the different characters of those on whom they fall; and each one of us who in imagination threads the subterranean passages leading to the cells of Pignerol and Exilles, and incarcerates himself in the Iles Sainte-Marguerite and in the Bastille, the successive scenes of that long-protracted agony will give the prisoner a form shaped by his own fancy and a grief proportioned to his own power of suffering.
The muddy trench, the deadly shrapnel, the perfidious gas, the roaring cannon, the forced marches on the slimy roads of Flanders, the heroic dashes and agonizing retreats of struggling armies, the lurking submarines, the treacherous, owlish zeppelins, the long-protracted vigil on the deep all these grim realities of four, long, endless years have melted away in the blaze of a glorious victory.
Time had enjoyed its little whirligig with that great painter of vibrating light and water, but Monet blandly refused the long-protracted honour. Another anecdote is related by M. Duret.
It had been their custom every night and morning, since parting from the foundered ship, and during all their long-protracted perils in the pinnace. Perhaps that evening's vesper was more fervent than those preceding it; for they felt they could not last much longer, and that all of them were slowly, surely dying. This night, a thing something unusual, the sky became obscured by clouds.
ZIBO. And then take for our reward? FIESCO. Then your search will have convicted fancy of deceit And what shall we have gained? FIESCO. Gained? The decision of the long-protracted contest between art and nature. And what then? FIESCO. Then, then? FIESCO alone. FIESCO. 'Tis well! 'tis well. The straw of the republic has caught fire the flames have seized already on palaces and towers. Let it go on!
I terrified them from the spot, and since that day have prowled by night the only period at which I can revisit the earth about the scenes of my long-protracted misery. This apartment is mine: leave it to me."
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