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"Good-bye, Therese!" His voice broke. He had reached the end of his iron self-control. She rose and clung to him a moment, unashamed before them. The ashes of that dead romance had been deeply stirred this night, and deep down some lingering embers had been found that glowed brightly now before their final extinction. Yet she made no attempt to detain him.
I drank seven cups; as I was beginning the eighth, I heard a crash, and the next moment a man leaped into the room through the broken window. The crash startled me from my self-control. The housekeeper bent toward me and whispered: "Don't be excited. It's Mr. Rawjester, he prefers to come in sometimes in this way. It's his playfulness, ha! ha! ha!" "I perceive," I said calmly.
But while the most characteristic qualities of woman are displayed through her sympathies and affections, it is also necessary for her own happiness, as a self-dependent being, to develope and strengthen her character, by due self-culture, self-reliance, and self-control. It is not desirable, even were it possible, to close the beautiful avenues of the heart.
Faster and faster he went, but deeper and deeper he dug his shoes into the snow, until he lay back almost flat against its surface. This checked his speed somewhat, but it was still very great, and, preserving his self-control perfectly, he prayed aloud to kindly Providence to save him from some great boulder or abrupt drop.
Thus he was forced to practise self-control in order to attain his ends, and to acquire skill in the management of men. There could have been no better training for the work he was to do in the after years, and the future showed how deeply he profited by it.
His voice had already passed into piggish tones. He struck the table with his palm. There was the hard sound of the wedding-ring against the wood. Trirodov said: "I too have heard that you were a man with self-control. But this is not the first time to-day that I've noticed your violent movements." Doulebov made an effort to recover himself. He said more quietly: "It is a revolting pornography!"
"There! this is about what I wrote to them all," she finished, whipping a note out of one of the unsealed envelopes on the desk and spreading it open before Aunt Hannah's suspicious eyes. "Hm-m; that is very good for you," admitted the lady. "Well, I like that! after all my stern self-control and self-sacrifice to keep out all those things I wanted to write," bridled Billy.
Recovering her self-control, she answered hastily "The thunder, the storm...." Then, with short, light steps, she went back to the table, and as she resumed her seat the bell for evening prayers was heard outside. Most of the company rose to obey the summons. "Good-bye till to-morrow morning, Sergeant! The election will take place early to-morrow."
"A king," said D'Artagnan; "it's a good omen, Master Groslow look out for the king." And in spite of his extraordinary self-control there was a strange vibration in the Gascon's voice which made his partner start. Groslow began turning the cards one after another. If he turned up an ace first he won; if a king he lost. He turned up a king. "At last!" cried D'Artagnan.
"Had I not exercised patience and self-control, the interview would have been something after this fashion: about ten minutes before tea-time, Hannah would have come to me and said, with provoking coolness "'The tea's all out. "To which I would have replied sharply "'Why, in the name of goodness, did not you say so this morning? You knew that you had used the last drawing!
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