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Nothing less than those evils, which threaten the whole species, can disturb the calm sleep of the philosopher, and force him from his bed. One man may with impunity murder another under his windows; he has nothing to do but clap his hands to his ears, argue a little with himself to hinder nature, that startles within him, from identifying him with the unhappy sufferer.
He walks through the debtors' floor, startles as he hears the stifled cry for bread, and contemplates with pained feelings the wasting forms and sickly faces that everywhere meet his eye.
Lists and papers of the principal men on both sides, data and statistics of stock and military supplies, maps, and papers, are looked at. The deep boom of the Cathedral bell, far below them, beats midnight as the two friends sit plotting treason. There is something mystical in the exact hour of midnight. The rich note startles Hardin.
"He follows the multitude," returned Andreas, "the common herd, who hate everything exceptional, everything that disturbs their round of life, or startles them out of the quietude of their dull dreams.
He recognises in himself an artistic satisfaction in the contemplation of evil which a little startles him; but sincerity forces him to confess that the disapproval he feels for certain actions is not nearly so strong as his curiosity in their reasons. The character of a scoundrel, logical and complete, has a fascination for his creator which is an outrage to law and order.
It startles us to find, even in 1852, such a sentence as this: 'Revealed religion furnishes facts to other sciences, which those sciences, left to themselves, would never reach.
"I like such a storm as this," said Flemming, who stood at the window, looking out into the tempest and the gathering darkness. "The silent falling of snow is to me one of the most solemn things in nature. The fall of autumnal leaves does not so much affect me. But the driving storm is grand. It startles me; it awakens me. It is wild and woful, like my own soul.
I say they are peasants peacefully driving cattle. At this moment a rumbling sound startles everyone in the city" here Sam rolled some croquet balls up and down in a box, but the dolls sat as quiet as before, and Dot alone was startled, "this was succeeded by a slight shock" here he shook the table, which upset some of the buildings belonging to the German farm. "Some houses fell."
But you, you have been dancing all the night with that horrid Mrs. Bethune. Yes!" letting her hands fall, and coming towards him with a face like a little angry angel "you may say what you like, but you have been dancing all night with her. And she is horrid." This is carrying the war into the enemy's camp with a vengeance. There is something in her tone that startles Rylton.
All at once a strange cry rang into the still, chill air such a cry as startles all who can hear it. The men with the horses hurried forward to the edge of the canal, the bargemen hung over the side of their boat; visible excitement rose among them about something there. Nettie, never afraid, was less timid than ever this morning.
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