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He could see the sight but dimly and, added to all this, was the thought that the gun was not a rifle, with an accurate bullet, but an old shotgun loaded with a Minie ball. At first, his arms shook so that he could not hold the gun steady, but by a mighty effort he nerved himself.
His eagerness to regain his old associates to partake once more of their wild freedom for he was desperately tired of civilised society, and sick of elephant-hunting all these ideas crowded into his mind at the moment, and nerved him to the utmost exertion.
My wife and mother will anon be down in the village and will strive to cheer and comfort the people, and I look to you for aid in this matter." The priest, who was naturally a timid man, nevertheless nerved himself to carry out Walter's suggestions, and soon the dismal tones of the bell ceased to be heard in the village.
When "hope deferred," and baffled love combined, had well-nigh made me as miserable and woebegone as I could possibly be, I heard a piece of news one day which almost nerved up my halting resolution to bring affairs to a final issue by speaking out again to Mrs Clyde no matter what might be the result.
But if this was the outward appearance, not so was the inward feelings of our hero. He knew his fate unless he could effect an escape, of which he had little hope and he nerved himself to meet and seem to his captors careless of it; but his soul was already on the rack of torture.
She put her hands on the mantelpiece, and dropped her head upon them, and so stood silent for long. There was no sound audible in the room, or from the house outside. And in the silence a proud and broken heart once more nerved itself to an endurance that brought it peace with neither man nor God.
The touch upon his hair he had felt to his finger tips, for Ethelyn seldom caressed him even as much as this; but he was in too moody a frame of mind to respond as he would once have done. His manner was not very encouraging, but, as if she had nerved herself to some painful duty, Ethelyn persisted, and said to him next: "You have not seen Aunt Van Buren's letter. Shall I read you what she says?"
At the same moment gusts of rising wind shook the casement and bleared the glass in it with rain. Joan, as she rose and stood near Mr. Chirgwin, heard her heart thump and felt the blood leap. Then she nerved herself, came a little forward, and spoke before her father had time to do so. He had now turned his gaze from her and was looking at the farmer.
And Helen, for whose sake he had so often, when his heart grew weary, nerved himself again to labour, saying, "Let me be rich, let me be great, and then I will dare to tell Helen that I love her!" Helen smiling upon another, unconscious of his pangs! What could fame bestow in compensation?
"Yes by strength that is not human nature's And after all the firm hold is rather that in which we are held, or ours would soon fail. The very hand that makes the promise its own must be nerved to grasp it. And so it is best, for it keeps us looking off always to the Author and Finisher of our faith." "I love those words," said Fleda. "But Mr.
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