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But after each of these tragic encounters, they recovered buoyancy, recovered it with a resiliency that had something almost light-headed about it. "We won't touch any of them now," Frank Merrill ordered peremptorily. "We can attend to them later. They'll keep coming back. What we've got to do is to think of the future.
There was observable, moreover, a certain hopefulness, a certain resiliency of purpose, a pride in the achievements of the past and in the possibilities of the future. In these respects the South was a new South by 1890.
She was, Raven had always recognized, the feminine replica of his father's special type. As to her looks, she was a thin, whip-like woman, who gave an impression of wiry endurance and serviceable resiliency. You would expect her to be hard to the touch, mental or moral, and yet she could double, evade, rebound.
Two or three mornings a week she ventured in among the agencies, occasionally an address handed out to her which she followed up, always vainly. There was something gone from Lilly, these months, as if a line of resiliency within her had snapped like a rubber band. It showed most in her slowed step and her head not quite so flung up.
He could seldom get away to it in his waking hours, but he knew it was there for him, and visiting it in dreams he kept in spite of the anxiety and Mr. Croker, his young resiliency. Along in December, about two weeks before his midwinter holiday, Ellen sent for him. "It's not as if there hadn't been time for everything. You must think of that, Peter.
The Basque would recover, the heroic ex-convict would not be stricken, and all would be well. Of such resiliency is the heart of youth. His first duty was to feed the faithful collie, and to send him forth with the flock.
The elasticity of my life, that ineffable resiliency of the soul which makes us more than beasts of burden, was gone forever. An automaton, informed only with the material life, remained, the spirit followed that fleeting figure down the hill. More than twenty years have passed and still the unrewarded chase continues!
He even began to make vague plans for trying again, and when, after a long dinner, they pushed back their chairs and rose from the table, there was a youthful resiliency in the voice with which he challenged Powers to a game of piquet. "That seems to leave me out," said Brett. "Well," said Mr. Callender, with snapping eyes, "can you play well enough to be an interesting opponent, or can't you?"
Whatever passion or reaction he may have experienced was always a matter for him alone, and something that he underwent in the remoteness of an astonishingly exclusive brain. That he experienced them is without doubt, but they were revealed in the intensity of action and the quick resiliency of renewed effort.
It tells us how a certain part of the system works when we are "inside it." It does not in the least explain the system any more than the discovery of the resiliency of the spring of the watch explains the watch itself.
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