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Updated: June 2, 2025
The sin of which Adonijah was guilty, whose sources we have tried to discover, was the assumption of unlawful authority and state, which involved rebellion against his own father. Ambition is not always wrong. It is a common inspiration often nerving men to attempt daring and noble deeds.
"I'll tell you what I mean, Mr. Mallalieu," replied Stoner, still regarding his man fixedly, and nerving himself for the contest. "I mean this I know who killed Kitely!" Mallalieu felt himself start again; he felt his face flush warm. But he managed to show a fairly controlled front, and he made shift to sneer. "Oh, indeed," he said, twisting his mouth in derision. "Do you now?
Pierre hung up his hat, removed his gloves slowly, nerving himself to endure the sharp glances, and opened the door for Jacqueline. If she had held back tremulously before, something she had seen in the eyes of those in the first room, something in the whisper and murmur which rose the moment she started to leave, gave her courage.
"But there is one thing, at least one which I cannot understand in you," he went on, nerving himself for what might come a moment later. "You are of this world you hate civilization and yet you have brought a man into the north to teach you its ways. I mean this man who you say is the most wonderful man in the world." He waited, trembling. It seemed an eternity before Jeanne answered.
The winter was now drawing to a close already some little touch of spring was appearing; as our last play for the season was announced, every effort to close with some little additional effort was made; and each performer in the expected piece was nerving himself for an effort beyond his wont.
The little waving of grass and bushes that marked the passage of the Wyandot suddenly stopped, and the slight rustling ceased to come. Nerving everything for a mighty effort, Henry sprang to his feet and rushed forward. The Wyandot, who was just beginning to suspect, uttered a cry, and he, too, sprang up. His rifle leaped to his shoulder and he fired as the terrible figure sprang toward him.
He remembered the day that he had hidden in the bushes with his squirrel gun and waited with fluttering breath for the sound of Fletcher's footsteps along the road. On that day it had seemed to him that the hand of the Lord was in his own Godlike vengeance nerving his little wrist.
There, I pulled my watch out from under my pillow, and looked at it. "Only six o'clock," I yawned. "Three good hours more of sleep. I wonder if the Boy " Then I tumbled over another pleasant precipice. When I waked again, it was almost nine, and nerving myself to the inevitable, I rang for a cold bath.
He was obliged to resign himself to fate and his valet, and felt compelled to have recourse to many cups of tea to calm his fevered senses. At length it became necessary for him to descend to the gardens. Nerving himself by a powerful effort, he advanced among his guests. What a gorgeous array of rank and beauty was there! The customary calls of the New Year had been forgotten.
"Are you ready?" he asked, placing his hands on her shoulders and holding her away from him. "Yes," she said, nerving herself. Their faces were still very near together. "Well, would you like to go and see the Dore pictures?" A simple enough question! A proposal felicitous enough!
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