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Updated: June 5, 2025
When business slackens this harpy composes his nearly-naked body on a plank overlapping the river, and executes with studied deliberation a program of purification marvelous in detail.
This is worth living for the whole sum of school-boy existence gathered up into one straining, struggling half-hour, a half-hour worth a year of common life. The quarter to five has struck, and the play slackens for a minute before goal; but there is Crew, the artful dodger, driving the ball in behind our goal, on the island side, where our quarters are weakest. Is there no one to meet him?
And now the women are clustered round on the pit-bank in haggard expectation, the very picture of woe, some wild in their cries, others rocking themselves to and fro to still, if it may be, their misery; and others bowed down to the earth, the very image of mute despair. And now the wheels rapidly revolve, the rope runs swiftly, at last it slackens speed.
Therefore at eleven o'clock by London time the period for the reply will expire. It is now approaching eleven. As the clock ticks out the remaining minutes the tension becomes terrible. Talk slackens. There are long pauses.
'Thou didst well, said the one, 'though thy wings are cut; thou didst well to do as I told thee. I'm not blaming you; you are a brave man of your own hands, and a middling honest man too, as honesty goes among mercenaries; but your tongue's plausible, plausible, and you are the devil's counsellor to any other man who slackens his will by so much as a finger-length."
After which, things visibly languish: and the hope of ruining such a Friedrich becomes problematic, the effort to do it slackens also; the very will abating, on the Austrian part, year by year, as of course the strength of their resources is still more steadily doing. To the last, Friedrich, the weaker in material resources, needs all his talent, all his luck too.
A pain that eats its way ever inward, a thirst that never slackens, and over all the black night lowering down. Aye, so it is, Sir Monk of the Long Face; but we will have some fun before we are put under the sod or our bones are left to whiten on the sands." "That we will, Sir Richard. And now we are in for it, for here comes our first adventure. Is she ugly or is she fair? Which, Sir Richard?"
The motor slackens, and we watch the creature slowly attack a high bank, land complacently on the top, and then an officer walking beside it to direct its movements balance a moment on the edge of another bank equally high, a short distance away. There it is! down! not flopping or falling, but all in the way of business, gliding unperturbed. London is full of tanks, of course on the films.
"Is plain," said the Cardinal, loftily, and with an eye that flashed with a soldier's fire. "Not a moment is to be lost! Thy son should at once take the field. Up with the Banner of the Church!" "But are we strong enough? our numbers are few. Zeal slackens! the piety of the Baldwins is no more!"
Forgetting for a moment the immense spiritual meaning of this noble quartet of romances, and regarding them as works of art in the straiter sense, they are felt to be practically blameless examples of the principle of adapting means to a desired end. After Donatello's deed of death, because what follows is psychologically the most important part of the book, the speed slackens accordingly.
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