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He stood the scrutiny with blushing restiveness, in which there was nothing of the malign, and she resolved that he was to be trusted. "Very well," she said, indifferently, "that does seem the shortest way to find out the poor fellow's whereabouts. Get the facts, and you shall be well paid for your trouble." "'Tain't no trouble, miss, if it's a service to you.
Fulkerson saw the restiveness in Dryfoos's eye at the purely literary course the talk had taken; he had intended it to lead up that way to business, to 'Every Other Week; but he saw that it was leaving Dryfoos too far out, and he wished to get it on the personal ground, where everybody is at home. "Ledt me zee," mused Lindau. "Wass it in fifty-nine or zixty, Passil?
Aunt Elizabeth Jane kept her nephew to his unwelcome devotional enterprise until the second "Selah" a word which always seemed to exasperate him provoked his restiveness beyond his powers of restraint. "I say, Aunt Betsy," said he, "shan't I see about gettin' in the beer?" This touched a delicate point, for his visit being unexpected, rations were likely to be short. Some reproof was necessary.
Our hero, young Julian, early began to show a restiveness under the training he received, which sadly perplexed his plain matter-of-fact father. The latter could not conceive why the boy should sometimes leave his plough in the furrow, and sit upon a hillock, gazing curiously and admiringly upon a simple wild flower.
Wait a minute, Lindsey!" he went on, as Mr. Lindsey showed signs of restiveness. "It's my turn, I think." He looked at Mr. Paley again. "Your transactions with Sir Gilbert have been quite in order, all through, I suppose and quite ordinary?" "Quite in order, and quite ordinary," answered the stockbroker readily.
Rising above the pettiness of spiteful grudge-bearing against a fellow-mortal, let me say a word of the unholy restiveness with which we meet the disappointments which are the Father's discipline of His own. "All these things are against me!" is a cry that has struck upon His loving heart until Godlike patience is needed to bear with the fretful wail.
Her restiveness is absolutely alluring, and excites all my hunting instinct.
"We've got to walk close to the edge," he said with the quiet of restrained passion. "You trust me, you say, and even before you said it I read it in your eyes. I want that same trust to be in them to-morrow.... I don't know how you feel, but I'm like the reforming drunkard tortured by his thirst." He paused, then added, "I think it's just as well to walk off my restiveness if I can."
Gradually but surely, as the outside world was brought nearer, these persons were influenced in their restiveness by books and examples, by imitation and other stimuli from new sources, until they cast off in their minds the Quaker ideal of plainness. To be ordinary no longer seemed to them a way of goodness. They were oppressed and stifled by the ban of the meeting upon variation.
Who can dare to say 'I am master of my fate, when he does not know how large may be the share of the general burden that will fall to him to drag through life, how great may be the number of these parasites who are living on the moral capital of their generation? Surely circumstance consists largely in the inertia, the impenetrability of the destroyers." Ernest shewed signs of restiveness.
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