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Under the lee of these he found Uncle Ulick striding to and fro and biting his finger-nails in his impatience. He wrung the Colonel's hand and looked into his face. "You'll do me the justice, John Sullivan," he said, with a touch of passion, "that never in my life have I been overhasty? Eh? Will you do me that?" "Certainly, Ulick," Colonel John answered, wondering much what was coming.
The tender, impulsive, overhasty spirit had wrought for itself some of the trials that had chastened and perfected it, even while breaking down the earthly tabernacle, so as to set free the weary soul, to enter into Rest!
As counter-chorus to which, in a certain Royal Heart: "That miserable purblind Finck, unequal to his task; that overhasty I, who drove him upon it! Or would readers care to glance into the very fact with their own eyes? As happens to be possible. I have followed him thus far, and will continue it to the frontiers of Bohemia. Yesterday cost him 500 men taken at Korgis here.
'If this is the beginning, what will the end be! she said in a whisper, and felt many misgivings as to the policy of being overhasty in establishing an independence at the expense of congruity with a cherished past. The clock struck twelve. The Aldclyffe state dinner was over. The company had all gone, and Miss Aldclyffe's bell rang loudly and jerkingly.
The master of the house, more cautious than the women, was inclined to think that his mother and daughter had been somewhat overhasty and imprudent in their advances and he had at first received Karnis with considerable reserve; but after a short interview he had convinced himself that the musician was a man of unusual culture and superior stamp.
But it was borne in upon her, as she afterwards said, that she must not hurry God's work: we are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours. She did not know how long they sat in that way, but it got darker and darker, till there was only a pale patch of light on the opposite wall: all the rest was darkness.
Did they and he want to seize the reins of Government? Did they want any power in that country? They struck for elementary freedom. And it is a prostitution of terms to use the word sedition in such connection. The strikers may have been overhasty. Mr. Manilal Doctor may have misled them. If his advice bordered on the criminal he should have been tried.
The question was frequently answered in a spirit antagonistic to Wagner; but many of the answers were overhasty and short-sighted.
The wet-nurse wept aloud, but Zoe laid her hand on the distressed woman's shoulder, and said soothingly: "I know you have more to submit to from Cleopatra's humors than any of us all, but do not be overhasty.
"I may have been overhasty, my lord," he said hesitatingly, "but still do I think that the woman was far from canny." The Earl laughed and, turning him about by the shoulders, gave him a push down the stair, crying, "Oh, Malise, Malise, have you lived so long in the world without finding out that a beautiful woman is always uncanny!"
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