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The culmination had come when he had asked to be allowed to leave the country school where he rode daily, and attend the better one in the nearest village, which necessitated boarding. After nerving himself for days to ask permission, he had been refused flatly. "What do you think I'm made of money?" his father had demanded.
Cousin Ephraim knows a thing or two. He says he always callated you were cut out for a fine lady." "Bob," said Cynthia, nerving herself for the ordeal, "did you tell Cousin Ephraim you had seen me?" "I told him and Ezra that I had been a constant and welcome visitor at this house." "Did, you tell your father that you had seen me?" This was too serious a question to avoid. "No, I did not.
I saw that the shock of the girl's terrible act had unnerved him. Nerving myself to be as practical and matter-of-fact as possible, I wiped the moisture from his brow with my handkerchief and patted his cheek soothingly. "I will attend to everything," I promised, "just as if you were able to see to it.
There was a moment of dead silence, in which Vargrave seemed to be nerving and collecting himself for such course as might be best to pursue, when again the door opened, and the name of Mr. Howard was announced. Hurried and agitated, the young secretary, scarcely noticing the rest of the party, rushed to Lord Vargrave.
Still no notice was taken; and softly rising to his hands and knees, Ali remained motionless, nerving himself for the supreme effort. The men were talking in a low voice, the sleepers breathed hard, and now was the moment.
So there was nothing for it but this aperture, hardly wider than one of those deep stone slits that stood for windows in a Norman castle. It was my last chance, and I meant to take it like a man. I stood for a moment nerving myself and taking deep breaths, as though I expected to take but few more. Then, my left arm extended, I entered sidewise, and began to edge myself along.
"I was wondering whether you'd let me go down and have a look at it?" "Of course," said the girl. "Come on." "Wait a minute," said Dickie, nerving himself to the test. If they didn't remember him they'd think he was mad, and never show him the Castle. Never mind! Now for it! "Did you ever have a tutor called Mr. Parados?" he asked. And again the others looked at him and at each other.
He was nerving himself to meet his fate bravely, whatever that fate might be; but the prospect of being arrested and charged with heresy or the circulation of forbidden books was sufficiently unnerving, and the more so to one whose life seemed opening out so full of promise and crowned with the blessing of love. "I must see Freda!" he suddenly exclaimed, as the shades of evening began to fall.
This time there was no outburst of grief from the people; they felt that all hope was vain, and they were nerving themselves for martyrdom. Presently there was a sound of voices, and the fugitives from Wurtemberg and the Palatinate were heard relating their frightful experience of the warfare of a monarch who styled himself "Most Christian King."
It was enough for sweetness like hers: she yielded instantly, and lay still, evidently nerving herself to suffer. But the first movement stole so "soft and soullike" on her ear, trembling as it were on the border-land between sound and silence, that she missed the pain she expected, and found only the pleasure she looked not for.
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