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Updated: May 26, 2025
Nunn was one of those wise men who know how to obey orders without self-questionings as to the whys and wherefores. I had secured gun licenses from the authorities, and, giving them to Nunn, ordered him to bring a breech-loader and a brace of revolvers with him. During my stay in the Isle of Pines I would be out of reach of the outside world.
Serious folk began to have vague self-questionings as to the righteousness of human slavery. The prison system was investigated; in England there were vague attempts at its reform. The noble Oglethorpe did what he could to arouse public sentiment against imprisonment for debt, and in his own person led to America a colony of the unfortunate victims of the system.
Her suspense; her self-questionings; her dread of a terrible termination to an incident which already had assumed the shape of a tragedy; her fearful responsibility; the menacing possibility that she herself, in simple defence of her life, might have to kill Basilio; her trepidation on the score of her aim and the reliability of the pistol all these things and others were wearing her out; and at last she, too, began to wonder how long she could bear the strain, and whether or not her husband would arrive in time to save her.
Don Julián, in spite of his own sweet reasonableness, begins subtly to wonder if there could be, by any possibility, any basis for his brother's vehemence. Don Severo's wife, Doña Mercedes, repeats the talk of the town to Teodora, and turns her imagination inward, till it falters in self-questionings.
There were moments when I seemed to be cut off from the world. It was in one of these moments that I I She made a significant gesture. Her voice had grown faint, and her limbs trembled. 'Stay, he said gently, 'I'll get you a seat. His concern about this stranger, his curiosity, occasioned no self-questionings, no probing into motives.
Certainly he found no satisfactory answers to such self-questionings. And then those grave reasons known only to himself, and never to be confided to another why he should yet reserve his hand unpledged were not so imperative as to admit of no compromise. They might entail a sacrifice, and not a small one to a man of Graham's views and ambition.
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