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Under the overmastering impulse towards action he made a futile effort to sit up that he might better follow the movements of the two outside. It was a pathetic failure, and he swore fiercely as he fell back and found his father's arms round him. "Aymer, if you are going to be so childish, I shall tell Christopher not to go." "No. I'm a fool, but I won't have him know it. He must go if he will."
It was plain that she was again in the grasp of some soul stronger than herself; and he believed this obsession, close akin to madness, to be due to a living, overmastering magician to Clarke, whose voice broke the silence. "There is your answer!" he called, and his voice rang out, with triumphant glee. "Her 'guides' have brought her to show you the folly of human interference.
The winged man is therefore a form generally recognized as beautiful; although it can happen, as it did to Michael Angelo, that our appreciation of the actual form of the human body should be too keen and overmastering to allow us to relish even so charming and imaginative an extravagance. The centaur is another beautiful monster.
"A dip!" moaned Mary as he described the seizure of the purse in the subway. "You hadn't no right to do ut, Hop!" bleated Humpy, who had tipped his chair against the wall and was sucking a cold pipe. And then, professional curiosity overmastering his shocked conscience, he added: "What'd she measure, Hop?" The Hopper grinned. "Flubbed! Nothin' but papers," he confessed ruefully.
As she talked, she seemed to be probing the centre of a flower which she had caught from a basket at the window, and her whole personality was alight and vivifying, her good temper and spirit complete. As he looked at her, he had an overmastering desire to make her his own his wife. She was worth hundreds of thousands of pounds; she had beauty, ability and authority.
He closed the door behind him, and then he stood with clenched hands and heaving breast, choking down some overmastering emotion. 'Sit down, Captain Crocker. You got my telegram? Our visitor sank into an armchair and looked from one to the other of us with questioning eyes. 'I got your telegram, and I came at the hour you said. I heard that you had been down to the office.
Hendrik paused, stepped a few paces back, resting his shoulders against the wall, immediately the other side of which was Jantje, and began to chuckle aloud and rub his hands as he admired the results of his labours. This proved too much for the Hottentot behind him. The provocation was overmastering, and so was the opportunity.
The coach overtook them, and then Rowland, as he prepared to mount, felt an almost overmastering reluctance. "Say the word," he exclaimed, "and I will stop too." Roderick frowned. "Ah, you don't trust me; you don't think I 'm able to take care of myself. That proves that I was right in feeling as if I were watched!" "Watched, my dear fellow!" said Rowland.
Why had the king sent for Marion on this particular night and at this late hour? Why, unless at the approach of his enemies he had feared that he might lose his beautiful victim, and in his overmastering passion had called her to him even as his people assembled in defense of his kingdom. There was desperate coolness in Nathaniel's approach now.
The capital had been declared in a state of siege, and on September 6th the king took to flight, retiring, with the 4,000 men still faithful to him, behind the Volturno. The next day Garibaldi with a few followers, entered Naples, whose populace received him with frantic shouts of welcome. The remarkable achievements of Garibaldi filled all Italy with overmastering excitement.
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