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Then thou wouldst love thy cross more than all the glory and all the goods of this world. The author had begun a series of reflections and meditations on the Ten Commandments for devotional use on Tuesday, but got no further than the Fifth.
I have thrown together in the crudest way the elements of the problem I struggled with, but I can give no record of the subtle details; I can tell nothing of the long vacillations between Protean values, the talks and re-talks, the meditations, the bleak lucidities of sleepless nights....
I remember a shrinking of unprofessional regret at the thought of suddenly destroying so fair and happy a thing. I was presently drawn from these meditations by quick movements of the airship crew and a shrill voice of command. "Ready to lower! Let her go!" shouted Captain Nicola Tesla, who had volunteered for this service.
We were so lost in these meditations, that we had turned into the street, and run up against a door-post, before we recollected where we were walking. On looking upwards to see what house we had stumbled upon, the words ‘Prerogative-Office,’ written in large characters, met our eye; and as we were in a sight-seeing humour and the place was a public one, we walked in.
This assertion, and the interview preceding it, certainly inspired Sir William Brandon with a feeling like complacency, although it was mingled with a considerable alloy. "I do not," thought he, concluding his meditations when he was left alone, "I do not see what else I can do!
His entrance was unheard by the officer, who sat gazing at the fire, still absorbed in his own meditations. Several minutes passed, when he spoke to himself in an undertone, "To-morrow we must raise the curtain, and expose our plans. May Heaven prosper them!" A slight movement made by the stranger caught his ear, and he turned his head, and saw that he was not alone.
Once or twice she thought, "Perhaps in a few days more, Maurice will be passing over this very line; he will be disappointed when he reaches home and finds that we are gone;" but all her meditations were dreamy and unreal her mind acted mechanically. A kind of moral catalepsy benumbed her.
His presence of mind was not, however, entirely lost, any more than his jealous respect for his reputation as a pure and powerful preacher of the word. "Hold your peace, woman!" he said, "and do not perturb my inward meditations and the wrestlings wherewith I wrestle. But of a verity the shooting of the foemen doth begin to increase! peradventure, some pellet may attain unto us even here. Lo!
I only remembered confusedly the occurrences of the past evening. My meditations were broken by Savéliitch, who came into my room with a cup of tea. "You begin early making free, Petr' Andréjïtch," he said to me, shaking his head. "Well, where do you get it from? It seems to me that neither your father nor your grandfather were drunkards.
Not a circumstance, from the moment when Clithero's character became the subject of my meditations, till the conclusion of his talk, but served to confirm my suspicion. Was this error to be imputed to credulity. Would not any one, from similar appearances, have drawn similar conclusions? Or is there a criterion by which truth can always be distinguished?
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