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Updated: June 17, 2025
The inspiring force which nerved some 40,000 men gladly to lay down their lives on the hills around Port Arthur was the feeling that they were helping to hurl back in the face of Russia the gauntlet which she had there so insolently flung down as to an inferior race. The collapse of the international and pacifist movement may be ascribed to various causes.
The care of Weeks's patients now devolved upon the senior, and among these patients was one who much needed his attention, but whom he shrank from seeing, Randall McLean, and another whom he greatly desired to attend, but who shrank from seeing him, Miss Forrest. Mrs. Miller was still at the bedside of the former when Dr. Bayard nerved himself to make the necessary call.
Rest and courage and hope, patience in the weariness of disease, strength that nerved his arm for shock and onset, and for the last grand that laid his young head low, all flowed in upon him through the tones of one brave, sweet voice far off. A gentle, fragile, soft-eyed woman, what could such a delicate flower do against the "thunder-storm of battle"? What DID she do?
He could not, by any stretch of resolution, have nerved himself to the point of giving up that house that had nearly all his memories of her associated with it. There hadn't been a change of a single piece of furniture in it since she went away. Her bedroom and her dressing-room were just as she had left them. Her clothes were just as they had been left after the packing of that small trunk.
He won't believe me. He won't believe your brother. Perhaps you can make it clear." At last Carolina nerved herself to speak. "You had better not go to my father, Mr. Haines. It will do no good. He is in the deal! You must believe me when I tell you so." The girl took her eyes from the secretary. He was plainly suffering. "Let me speak to Mr. Haines alone," said Carolina to Norton and her brother.
"Read what is there," she broke in, "and you will see that it was not foolish, that it was meant to be." He felt a cold dead hand reaching out from the past to strike him; but he nerved himself, and his eyes searched the paper with assumed coolness-even with her he must still be acting.
He talked a sight, so folks said that knew him well, about his consumin' desire and aim to get his wife and children into a little home of their own, into a safe little haven, where they could live if he wuz called away. They say that that wuz on his mind day and night, and wuz what nerved his hand so in the fray, and made him so successful.
The very terror of the thought nerved him once more revived his fast-failing strength. Drawing forth another of his bone daggers, he plunged it, too, deep into the body of the beast. For a moment the sinewy, struggling tentacles relaxed, and just that moment the man was able to seize, or he had been lost.
Not an angry jealous silence now his whole manner showed how much he honoured and trusted his wife but the hush of a deep, abiding pain, a sense of loss which nothing could ever reveal or remove. But men must keep up worldly duties; it is only women, and not all of these, who can afford the luxury of a broken heart. Mr. Harper rose, nerved for the day's task a painful one, as all the family knew.
Of Maurice's army not more than nine or ten were slain. The story sounds like a wild legend. It was as if the arm of each Netherlander had been nerved by the memory of fifty years of outrage, as if the spectre of their half-century of crime had appalled the soul of every Spaniard.
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