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They claimed indeed to be its friends, to hold in their hands its future and its betterment. Enemies of the royal house they were, of course. She was nearly distracted by that time. She was a brave woman, physically and mentally of hard fiber, but the very name signed to the paper set her nerves to twitching.
But the latter, though evidently musing on the subject, and mentally discussing some unpleasant doubts and inferences which it seemed to present to her active mind, yet evaded the question, and turned the conversation, by directing the attention of her companion and the rest of the company to a distant object in the wild landscape, which here opened to their view.
"I see him daily, and he is about the same, like a child, mentally." "They asked about him at W , for the agent had received several letters regarding him." "Ah!" said Doctor Dick, with interest. "What was their tenor?" "That he had come out West upon a special mission, and with considerable money, and, since leaving W where he had written of his arrival, not a word had been heard from him."
Chad met it with all his air of straight intelligence, while Strether remembered again that fancy of the first impression of him, the happy young Pagan, handsome and hard but oddly indulgent, whose mysterious measure he had under the street-lamp tried mentally to take. The young Pagan, while a long look passed between them, sufficiently understood.
Mrs Anthony...! If it hadn't been the captain's wife he would have referred to her mentally as a kid, he said. I asked him when this had happened; and he told me that it was three days after parting from the tug, just outside the channel to be precise. A head wind had set in with unpleasant damp weather.
The next minute Frank was riding quietly back, hot and flushed, but mentally composed, listening to a loud outburst of admiration as he passed group after group of the Emir's horsemen, men who had, to use a common term, been almost born in the saddle.
I could not help mentally adoring the works of the Creator, and my heart sunk within me at my own insignificance, folly, and wickedness. As we were now running along the shore, looking for our landing-place, and just going to take in the sail, the American captain, who sat close to the man at the helm, seemed attentively watching something on the larboard bow of the boat.
Equipment up to that time had been a glass cutter and a jimmy for back windows and padlocks." He was humorously drawling his confession. He stopped talking and lighted a cigarette. Impatience that was agony urged Vaniman, but he controlled himself. Wagg did not venture to say anything. His thoughts were keeping him busy; he was mentally galloping, trying to catch up with the new situation.
Of course I have had to keep engagements when I did not feel in the mood, either physically or mentally. Many singers would have refused under like conditions. But it does not seem fair to the audience to disappoint, or to the manager either; it puts him in a very difficult and unpleasant position.
People don't appreciate me, I say, except HER. Ah, gods, I am an unlucky man! She would have been mine, she would have taken my name; but unfortunately it cannot be so. I stooped to mate beneath me, and now I rue it." The position was becoming a very trying one for Melbury, corporeally and mentally. He was obliged to steady Fitzpiers with his left arm, and he began to hate the contact.
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