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"Step aside!" commanded the White Leaguer. "But by the law the color follows the mother, and so I am white." "Step aside!" cried the man, in a fury. "Octavie ." A pretty, Oriental looking girl rises, silent, pale, but self-controlled. "Are you colored?" "Yes; I am colored." She moves aside. "Marie O ."
It was trembling. Where, I wondered, had those two met and in what circumstances, that the mere sight of the stranger caused such emotion in the unusually self-controlled wife of Cyrus Staten. The man spoke quickly in a deep and curiously melancholy voice: "Madame perhaps does me the honor to remember me?" "I I I " began the Bonnie Lassie. "The Comte de Tournon. At Trouville we met, was it not?
Worthington, now in a rage himself at such unheard-of presumption. "To your face," said Cynthia, who got more self-controlled as he grew angry. "I believe that that consent, which you say you have given freely, was wrung from you." It was unfortunate that the first citizen might not always have Mr. Flint by him to restrain and caution him. But Mr.
"I do not think we shall quarrel," she remarked. "But if we do, Daisy, I shall know how to bear my part of it." She turned carelessly to her tetting again, and Daisy lay still; quiet and self-controlled, it was all she could do. She could hardly bear to watch her mother at her work; the thought of "quarrels" between them was so inevitable and so dreadful.
Magnus will be down in a minute." I heard her step recede along the hall, and then somewhere a clock struck eight. As the sound died away the rustle of skirts came down the stair, and Mrs. Magnus appeared in the doorway. Her panic of the morning had passed, and she was perfectly self-controlled. "Ah, Mr. Lester," she said, "you are prompt. You have the money?" she added in a lower tone.
Silent, self-controlled, she had given no sign of her suffering and her terror, though her eyes were ringed with sleeplessness and her mouth had grown stiff with its effort to command. The tension was torture. Her heart strings were drawn to the snapping point; her mind was a bowstring never relaxed, till every fiber of her resistant body ached for relief. At last they had arrived.
It took McCuaig some days to discover that in these frequent fatigues and special duties, he was undergoing punishment, but once made, the discovery wrought in him a cold and silent rage, which drove him to an undue and quite unwonted devotion to the canteen, which in turn transformed the reserved, self-controlled man of the wilds into a demonstrative, disorderly and quarrelsome "rookie" aching for trouble.
Round I went, and I came plump into the arms of my good friend Darrell, who stood there, squarely across the path! "Whither away, Simon?" said he coldly. I halted, stood still, looked him in the face. He met my gaze with a calm, self-controlled smile. "Why," said I, "I'm on my way to bed, Darrell. Let me pass, I beg you." "A moment later will serve," said he.
Calm and self-controlled, with hair of copper-red and face and neck browned and furrowed by the sun and mountain winds, enured to hardships and ready for them, this young mountaineer moved among his new-found companions at Camp Gordon. Reticent he seemed, but his answer to an inquiry was direct, and his quiet blue-eyes never shifted from the eyes of the man who addressed him.
Naville is rapidly becoming a model in the art of premeditated and self-controlled eloquence. There is another kind of eloquence that which seems inspired, which finds, discovers, and illuminates by bounds and flashes, which is born in the sight of the audience and transports it. Such is not Naville's kind. Is it better worth having? I do not know.
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