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"I'll tell you about him another time. Permit me to escort you back to your guests." The door of the hall opened and closed again. Andrea could stand up without putting himself into danger. But the words he had heard were still paralysing his mind and his body.
He stood there, his body rigid, his mouth half-open and fear looking out from his eyes and every line in his face stark paralysing fear. Then he saw Thresk staring at him, but he was too sunk in terror to resent the stare. "Did you hear anything?" he said in a whisper. "No." "I did," and he leaned his head on one side.
She's quite comfortable, and you're sure to sleep well, as you're tired. 'We can leave the things here, I argued feebly, 'and walk over with my bag. 'Oh, I shall have to go aboard anyhow, he rejoined; 'I never sleep on shore. He seemed to be clinging timidly, but desperately, to some diplomatic end. A stony despair was invading me and paralysing resistance.
But I seem this term to have in a measure waked out of a long trance, partly caused by my own gross inconsistencies, and partly by the paralysing effects of this Oxford-delusion heresy, for such it is I feel persuaded.
A paralysing shyness, for which she spurned herself, suffused her at the thought; and behind the shyness lurked a great longing to know how he would receive her culminating revelation. But in his present state she dreaded a shock for him, even a shock of joy. She would wait a little longer for the given moment; and then . . . .
In that dim room a sinister thought had seized upon him, oppressing and paralysing him; a vague foreboding that his fate would resemble that of this pale woman. But he chased the dark clouds away. His star did not vary in its light as does the shifting and drifting human mind; it was like the sun, steady, unchangeable, inspiring. "For oh! I had a comrade, And a better could not be."
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralysing of that trust; for so long as it lasts it is a talisman which changes evil into good, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes the baser metals into gold; and, so long as it lasts, God's shield is round him and no evil can befall him.
This jam must have resulted through his carelessness. Before the world he would be disgraced; before his Maker the thought struck the old man with a paralysing fear. He stood for a moment motionless, watching the shifting, heaving, rumbling mass, and then life seemed suddenly to return. "Run to the Glen, Archie!" he cried to the frightened boy.
It is perfectly true that it is the lawyers of to-day who are leading us, who are fighting the country's battles, but when it comes to a matter of action against the Government, when it comes to a matter of paralysing the activity of the Government I know that the Government always look to the lawyers, however fine fighters they may have been to preserve their dignity and their self-respect.
In the matter of our bearings, I set myself doggedly to overcome that paralysing perplexity, always induced in me by night or fog in these intricate waters; and, by screwing round and round, succeeded so far as to discover and identify two flashing lights one alternately red and white, far and faint astern; the other right ahead and rather stronger, giving white flashes only.
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