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He took a chair and seated himself by the bedside of the patient, and for the first time took a good look at him. Ishmael's handsome face, no longer distorted by suffering, was calm and clear; his eyes were closed in repose but not in sleep, for the moment the judge "hemmed" he raised his eyelids and greeted his host with a gentle smile and nod.
Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence. I am your wife if you will marry me. Amabel awoke to such a sense of relief and repose that she scarcely liked to ask herself the cause, lest it might ruffle her complete peace. Those words 'all right, seemed to be enough to assure her that the cloud was gone.
Within the hour, Sir Philip, attended by Lord Clifford and Lord Graham, entered the chamber. Lord Lovel was in great emotion; the priest stood on one side of the bed, the surgeon on the other; the former exhorted him to confess his sins, the other desired he might be left to his repose. Lord Lovel seemed in great anguish of mind; he trembled, and was in the utmost confusion.
The fact is that he can go nowhere else where life is so uneasy, and where, consequently, he would have so little of his sort of repose. To put him in another country would be like putting a nineteenth-century man back into the eighteenth century. He thinks that he occupies an advanced station of observation, from which his telescope can sweep the horizon for anything new.
He says: "Impatience and anxiety are disintegrating mental conditions. People who are all the time looking at their watches and thinking, 'Oh! I wish they would hurry up. 'Oh! do be quick, don't keep us here all night, we shall surely miss our train, etc., are disturbers of the peace, and break the conditions which require harmony and repose.
'Ah! thought Falconer, 'such a peace at last is all a man can look for the repose of a spectral Elysium, a world where passion has died away, and only the dim ghost of its memory to disturb with a shadowy sorrow the helpless content of its undreaming years. The religion that can do but this much is not a very great or very divine thing.
The only enemy who could disturb the repose of what may be termed the Home Districts was Zabita Khan, who still exhibited all the faithlessness so common with his race, and a turbulent disposition peculiar to himself.
There are not over half a dozen decently clad people among them all, and two of these are horsemen, simply remaining over night, like myself. Everybody has a fearfully flea- bitten appearance, which augurs ill for a refreshing night's repose.
Here he received the mitre of the diocese in dutiful submission from the hands of the Bishop, on entering the Cathedral; and here he celebrated a solemn requiem mass for the repose of the soul of the Archbishop of Tuam, lately slain before Sligo.
If my son marries, I have no choice I must!" She floated upstairs. Next day "John, didn't you rise very early this morning?" "No, ma'am." He had not gone to bed. Yet there was a new repose in his face and energy in his voice. He ate breakfast enough for two. "Millie, hasn't Israel brought my horse yet?"
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