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For a time the second ambition overshadowed the first, but the first was bound to reassert itself; and in a moment of egotism I conceived the notion of winning your enthusiasm as well as your respect " Eve's face, alert and questioning, suddenly paled as a doubt crossed her mind. "Then it was only only to stand well with me?"
We therefore naturally made every effort from the first to quench their love of fighting, and the dogs very soon began to understand that we were not particularly fond of their combats; but we had here to deal with a natural characteristic, which it was impossible to eradicate; in any case, one could never be sure that nature would not reassert itself over discipline.
There was in them that slightly bewildered look that comes when the mind has been very far away in some distant dreamland, and where the weakened faculties have hardly the strength to reassert themselves. "Joan," he said "Joan, art thou there? art thou safe?" She rose and bent over him smilingly. "Here by thy side, good John, and perfectly safe. Where should I be?" "And Raymond too?"
For a little we walked without a word; for Antony of Vendôme fickle and vain, at once the hope and despair of his time felt himself hurt and aggrieved by the refusal of his offer, and for a space preserved a sulky silence. Ere we had gone a quarter mile, however, his temper variable as the wind began to change and his kindly nature to reassert itself.
It rose on the night air with some pretence of regularity, dying away again in the roar of the wind to reassert itself distantly in the deep, brief hushes of the storm. For a few minutes Jim's dreams were coloured only tinged, as it were, by this impression of fear approaching from somewhere insensibly upon him.
"As my health unexpectedly improved and energy moved me to reassert myself and step out, a soft hand was laid on mine the hand of my mother, invalided at my birth, retired at forty from a world where she had shone by force of beauty and wit and a gentle voice would say: 'Stay with me, my son, my baby. Oh, bear with me a little longer.
He saw them waiting, their life-long habit of obedience striving to reassert itself; a thousand fears besetting them, a thousand rumours preying upon them wild beasts set on them by their cunning enemies.
This remarkable modern craze for making one's philosophy, religion, politics, and temper all of a piece, of seeking in all incidents for opportunities to assert and reassert some favourite mental attitude, is a thing which existed comparatively little in other centuries. Solomon and Horace, Petrarch and Shakespeare were pessimists when they were melancholy, and optimists when they were happy.
Then the claims of the life that had always been his would reassert themselves. After a while the Padre's thoughts drifted to the pressing considerations of the future. Several times he had heard the shouts of men who had turned a nugget up in the gravel.
In the rest of the animal world the fact of the mating season is frankly acknowledged. It has never been recognized among humankind within the period of written history. Is it possible that when women are released from economic and social coercion, this periodic mating instinct in the woman of the species may assert, or reassert, itself?
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