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A singular fact which all have probably observed, but the causes of which can hardly be determined, is the peculiar repugnance which men dressed and ready to go to a party have for discussions or to answer questions. At the moment of starting, there are few husbands who are not taciturn and profoundly absorbed in reflections which vary with their characters.
For ordinary riding the slight loss of time at starting is a matter of no importance whatever. There are several devices which enable us to obtain the advantages of high and low gearing on the same machine, which at the same time give the rider the benefit of a free pedal whenever he wishes.
Then I shall sail for America. There are a couple of pieces I've got to do for the Fall. I ought to be starting on them." Maud looked away. "You've got your work," she said almost inaudibly. George understood her. "Yes, I've got my work." "I'm glad." She held out her hand. "You've been very wonderful... Right from the beginning . . . You've been . . . oh, what's the use of me saying anything?"
After a moment Laura continued, with a perceptible shudder in her voice: "There is no one to break my fall. Oh, that I was not afraid to die! That seems the only resource to such as I, If I could just end it all by becoming nothing " "Laura, Laura," cried Edith, starting up, "cease your wild mad words. You are sick and morbid. You are more delirious than mother is.
But Nan's common sense whispered to her, whatever might be said about de Spain's starting the fight, that one man locked in a room with four enemies, all dangerous in an affray, was not likely to begin a fight unless forced to none, at least, but a madman would do so.
Having cut my load, I strapped it together, and got everything ready for starting. I felt that I could now call the others without the imputation of being afraid; and went in search of them. In a few minutes we were all collected, and began an attack upon the bush. The big Frenchman, who was the one that I had called to at first, I found as little inclined to approach the snake as I had been.
I pricked up my ears. "Have you struck gold, Boris?" "No, better; but see here, Alec!" he laughed, starting up. "You and I have all we need in this world. Ah! how sinister and covetous you look already!" I laughed too, and told him I was devoured by the desire for gold, and we had better talk of something else; so when Genevieve came in shortly after, we had turned our backs on alchemy.
Ford himself, issuing from his private room, vexed and anxious at their delay and starting out in their pursuit. "Well, laggards! What does this mean? Wasting the time when there's so little of it? Mrs. Calvert's fretting so she can't eat her dinner and in with you! In with you! There's but fifteen minutes before her train starts east!"
Iron him, and away with him to the barracks." "For what crime, sir?" I asked, starting forward. "For rebellion," shouted the colonel. "He has dared to interfere with the army of Her Majesty, while suppressing treason." "He came here to assist the wounded, and had no intention of interfering with the soldiers," I said.
Still she comes striving on; and at her boldness and the spreading cry, the angry waves rise up above each other's hoary heads to look; and round about the vessel, far as the mariners on the decks can pierce into the gloom, they press upon her, forcing each other down and starting up, and rushing forward from afar, in dreadful curiosity.
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