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Updated: May 23, 2025
And slowly the power of thought returned to me. I had time to think. My mind drifted and drifted, but I got control of it now and again, and then for longer intervals, as my poor body reasserted itself from the slavery of the drug. And I thought I thought I thought. And at last I made up my mind, my fierce, embittered mind. And when I came out of prison, I took to the road.
"Well; bring me your plans," resumed Madame Desvarennes, after having reflected a moment. "Perchance you may have hit upon something." The mistress had been generous, and now the woman of business reasserted herself and she thought of reaping the benefit.
It cannot, then, be too strongly reasserted that the social position of Ireland had experienced no change whatever, and that the separation of classes, spoken of with such well-merited rebuke by Edmund Burke, still stood unaltered: "They divided the nation into two distinct parties, without common interest, sympathy, or connection.
But his iron will reasserted itself in a few seconds, and while he still held her he said with more calm: "Little star, you must never speak to me like that again, as you did just now, I mean. It was unreasonable and not kind, if you but knew! And I have a very arrogant temper, I fear, although I am nearly master of it, and shall be quite in time, I hope.
For a few years, indeed, in the ninth century the genius of Charlemagne had almost restored the order of civilization, and even in those few years the human mind reasserted itself, and for a moment the learning and culture which had been preserved mainly by the Irish and their pupils in Britain, and in Central Europe, flowered and bore fruit; but with his death Western Europe plunged again into anarchy and misery, and it was only slowly that the genius of the great German emperors in Central Europe, and of the Norman settlers in France and England, rebuilt the commonwealth of European civilization.
There had been moments, days perhaps, of discouragement, when he regarded it as drivel, and himself as a fool in so far, that is, as he had trafficked with literature. On the other hand, his original view of it reasserted itself with frequency.
During the past year the American people, in a national election, reasserted their democratic faith. In the course of that campaign various references were made to "strife" between this Administration and the Congress, with the implication, if not the direct assertion, that this Administration and the Congress could never work together harmoniously in the service of the Nation.
But by the time he had reached home and had stripped off his wet clothes and swathed himself in a rough blanket, his racked nerves reasserted themselves. He craved a drink a number of drinks to restore his wonted poise. Lighting the kitchen lamp, he set the whisky bottle on the table and put a thick tumbler alongside it. Chum was lying at his master's feet.
No sooner was he gone than Moonlight darted in and fell into her mothers arms. There was certainly more of the pale-face than of the red man's spirit in the embrace that followed, but the spirit of the red man soon reasserted itself. "Mother," she said eagerly and impressively, "Rushing River is going to be my husband!"
"Well; bring me your plans," resumed Madame Desvarennes, after having reflected a moment. "Perchance you may have hit upon something." The mistress had been generous, and now the woman of business reasserted herself and she thought of reaping the benefit.
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