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If he were refused, it was almost in him to pick up Betty bodily and carry her off. The journey back, vague and Quixotic as were his intentions, was performed with a far lighter heart than his setting forth. He would see Betty, and talk to her, come what might of his plan.
By his will he left the greater portion of it to the University of Oxford for the establishment of an amiable if somewhat quixotic system of bringing the various branches of the Anglo-Saxon race into association at a centre of learning and athletics, where they were to be leavened by a Teutonic admixture.
An unprogressive, quixotic life if you will a life without growth and dominant personalities and lofty responsibilities and God-given rights but oh! the sweet mothers that it gave us, and the wholesomeness, the cleanliness, the loyalty of it all. With the coming of summer, then, each white marble step of the Horn mansion, under Malachi's care, shone like a china plate.
Equally surprising was the unconsciousness of the biographer, that there was anything discreditable in what he disclosed. Cooper criticised Scott's conduct in certain matters with a good deal of severity. In regard to some points he took extreme, and what might fairly be deemed Quixotic ground.
Only when his quixotic ideas of family honor were attacked did he bestir himself. "I am going to Uncle Amos's," she replied distinctly. "What?" asked Thorpe incredulously. For answer she pointed to a letter lying open on the table. Thorpe took it and read: "My dear Niece: "Both Mrs.
Recalling their course since leaving the village, the brothers understood better than before the cause of more than one tortuous winding by their guide, when they had been unable to guess the reason for such quixotic turns that did not lessen the labor of traveling itself. It was not yet midday, and the halt was not made for food for either man or beast.
Sypher stood on the edge of the platform and watched the end buffers until they were out of sight; then he turned and strode away, and his face was that of a man stricken with great loneliness. It never occurred to Septimus that he had done a quixotic thing in marrying Emmy, any more than to pat himself on the back for a monstrously clever fellow when he had completed a new invention.
In our search for a vicinity in which to settle we went about with the officers of the compulsory education department, with city missionaries, and with the newspaper reporters whom I recall as a much older set of men than one ordinarily associates with that profession, or perhaps I was only sent out with the older ones on what they must all have considered a quixotic mission.
Not because there are not noble objects for interest and effort, abundant, and within reach of such minds; but because long-established custom has made it seem so quixotic to the majority, even of the professed followers of Christ, for a woman of wealth to practice any great self-denial, that few have independence of mind and Christian principle sufficient to overcome such an influence.
"As to that," he said: "The rough, unfortunately, has to be taken with the smooth. But life's frightfully jolly sometimes." "As now?" He looked at her with firm gravity, and answered "As now." A sense of utter mortification seized on Barbara. He was too strong for her he was quixotic he was hateful!
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