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Pollux stood looking at her, and overmastered by the passion that possessed him, he exclaimed: "Eternal gods! how I love you! Till now my soul has been like a careless child, to-day it is grown to heroic stature. Wait only wait, it will soon learn to use its weapons."
He was a man originally of fine education, plausible manners and good family, but strong drink seems early in life to have overmastered him, and left him but a wreck of himself. But he was not incapable of generous or, rather, romantic acts; for, during the burning of the Putnam House in this town last summer, he rescued two ladies from the flames.
But no girl of nineteen can pass a night altogether without sleeping, however sadly she may turn and turn over and over again in her bed. So slumber overmastered Selene every now and then for a quarter of an hour, and each time she dreamed of her sister.
Encouraged by the knowledge that they had a safe retreat in case of being overmastered, they fought with such heart that the enemy was defeated, and the grateful Mohegans named the place the Bridge of God. It was in 1734 that Joist Hite moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, with his wife and boys, and helped to make a settlement on the Shenandoah twelve miles south of Woodstock.
Randal Leslie; and I call upon Baron Levy to confirm my statement." "It is true," said the baron, slowly, and as if overmastered by the tone and mien of an imperious chieftain. There came a low sound like a hiss from Randal's livid lips. "And was Mr. Leslie acquainted with your project for securing the person and hand of your young kinswoman?" "Certainly, and Baron Levy knows it."
A year and a half after Corvick's death she published in a single volume her second novel, "Overmastered," which I pounced on in the hope of finding in it some tell-tale echo or some peeping face. All I found was a much better book than her younger performance, showing I thought the better company she had kept.
Her face was flushed, for she was struggling against an impulse to laugh, which almost overmastered her. After a minute she heard the dog's short bark again, then a man's foot shifting on the terrace, then suddenly a noise of breathing above her head close to her hair. With a little scream she shrank back and looked up. A man's face was gazing down at her.
"It was the face of a child that was looking at me out of that stone, marked with the heartrending anguish of the agony of death. I could see drops of blood welling from the breast; but the rest of the form of the body seemed to flow vaguely into indistinctness, as if a stream of water were carrying it away. It was with a hard struggle that I overcame the horror which well-nigh overmastered me.
It is nearly four." Nearly four! Then he had slept right through the night so soundly that on waking he thought he had only dozed. "You will not go? Tell me you will not go?" she whispered, and he felt her hands touch him lightly. He drew back, fearful lest her fascination again overmastered him.
But slowly, with jerking movements, impelled by that inexorable force, his hand moved across the desk, sought to stay itself upon book or inkwell, then, at last completely overmastered, took pen and wrote wrote the words sent down to it by that dominating power that had taken possession of his will.
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