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That was bad enough, but he had steeled his resolution to the pitch of going through with it, sure that the clearing of his character would follow any inquiry into the case. But to be lodged for three days as a common felon in a police cell was a fate he had not once realised, and which, when its full meaning broke upon him, crushed the spirit out of him.
"Now!" he said and it sounded like a blow upon a gong. "Curtain up," said Richard and steeled himself for any eventuality. "You're caught, Mr. Barraclough." "But not caught out," came the instant reply. "Ever handled a cheque for a million pounds?" "I have not." "Van!" Mr. Van Diest felt in his pockets and produced a banker's draft which he laid on the table before Richard.
"Here it is, then," said a pleasant, jovial voice, as a sunburnt man came through the gap, holding out his brown right hand to Ebben Owens. The other he stretched towards Will, who had thrown his sickle away, and was hastily approaching. No human heart could have steeled itself against that frank countenance and beaming smile, certainly no father's.
"Brian, dear," said Madge, softly, taking his hand, "you must tell all for my sake." Fitzgerald sighed this was the hardest temptation he had yet been subjected to he felt half inclined to yield, and chance the result but one look at Madge's pure face steeled him against doing so. What could his confession bring but sorrow and regret to one whom he loved better than his life.
"No, sir," said Toby, with downcast eyes. "Why not?" There was a gibing note in Saltash's voice. "Never qualified before?" Toby shot him a swift and nervous glance that was like a flash of blue flame. "No, sir. Never been caught before," he said. Saltash's eyes flickered humour, but he steeled himself. "Well, you're caught this time fairly caught.
Her home was in Little Silver, which is our village; and only poverty and the need for work had took her out of it. There she tended her widowed father, and he had such a passion for the girl, her being his only one, that 'twas only the shadow of the Union Workhouse ever steeled him to part from her.
He had steeled himself for the crucial hour with his friends; had already, in his imagination, bidden farewell to the relations that had held them close through the past years. He believed, because he was capable of paying this heavy price for his love, that no further proof would be necessary to convince even Lynda of its intensity.
A few book-rolls had also come, and Dion enjoyed discussing their contents with Barine. He himself read very little, for he was rarely indoors during the day. The fourth week after his arrival he was able to aid, with arms whose muscles had been steeled in the pakestra, the men in their fishing, and Dionikos in his boat-building.
She had steeled her heart against all those subtle advances, such as an actress knows how to make. She had gone to conquer, but had been conquered. For when Kate Challoner determined to charm she was not to be resisted. She had gone up to the mother and daughter and put her arms around them. "I knew that I should love you both. How could I help it?
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, he turned at last home across the waters, humble and strong, gentle and determined. He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls.
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