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Suddenly all her old powers of resistance came back; hatred steeled her wavering will; and, as in fancy, he had seen himself in the circus, driving in a race, so she pictured herself seated at the chess-board. She felt herself playing with all her might to win; but not, as with his father, for flowers, trifling presents or mere glory; nay, for a very different stake Life or Death!
Our nerves have been hardened, our sensibilities blunted, our hearts steeled against suffering, in the terrible school through which we have passed. Moving up the River. A Landing Effected. The Battle. Precipitous Retreat of the Rebels. Spoiling a Captured Camp. Rebel Flags Emblazoned with the State Arms. A Journalist's Outfit. A Chaplain of the Church Militant.
The Prophet's sensitive nature winced under the obvious irony of the interrogation, but either the "creaming foam" had rendered him desperate, or he was to some extent steeled against the satire by the awful self-respect which had invaded him since Mrs. Merillia's accident. In any case he answered firmly, "Malkiel the Second, in Berkeley Square I had a relation an honoured grandmother."
He told them what I had done for him, how I'd made a man of him when he was broke and friendless, how I'd taken him into my home like one of my family, and then I went him one better. I acknowledged it all and made them hear it from my lips too. Then " He paused, and she steeled herself to witness another spectacle of his pitiable loss of self-control.
For his services he received a degree of knighthood of the Military Order of the Bath and the Chitral medal and clasp. He was now marked as a man for high command on the frontier at the first opportunity. That opportunity the great rising of 1897 has presented. Thirty-seven years of soldering, of war in many lands, of sport of every kind, have steeled alike muscle and nerve.
Leonora's conduct argues great insensibility of soul, or great command; great insensibility, I think: for I cannot imagine such command of temper possible to any, but a woman who feels indifference for the offender. Yet, even now that I have steeled myself with this conviction, I am scarcely bold enough to hazard the chance of giving her pain. Absurd weakness!
A momentary impulse, almost of cowardice, swept over him. Then he steeled himself, and went on and up. That staff must be more than a mile high, it now seemed to the boy, hanging there in momentary danger of his life. Dave, standing below, looking up, knew far more torment. Watching Dick, Darrin began to feel wholly responsible for the whole awful predicament of his chum.
Fair himself, as the boy was dark, their intrinsic likeness of form and feature was yet so striking that there were moments as now when it gave Nevil Sinclair an eerie sense of looking into his own eyes, which was awkward, as he had come steeled for chastisement, if needs must, though his every instinct revolted from the mutual indignity.
Turning, he scanned the starry sky, and by means of his scanty knowledge of astronomy identified the Great Dipper. Its pointers located the North Star. Under it he knew lay Isle au Haut, now a low, black ridge on the horizon, east of Saddleback Light. Percy settled himself on the thwart, steeled his muscles, and gripped the oars harder.
He appreciated the fact that she was about to fight him with weapons that on a previous occasion when, however, it is true, they were wielded by another had accomplished his undoing. And for all that he steeled his heart, and evoked the memory of Suzanne to strengthen him in his purpose: he approached her with a kindly exterior.
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