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It is the long night, but it is a great honor for us to be here and at work." "Where are your companions?" The Russian smiled. "They are all about through the dark of the long night. We may only signal in passing. In fact, I must go now " The surgeon in charge had entered. Peter went to Samarc's cot, steeling himself. "Samarc," he whispered, without bending, "Samarc " His sleeves were rolled.
"When I told you pop and I didn't always agree about everything I was thinking " "Is it about a man?" he asked, surmising the worst and steeling himself for the blow if it must fall. He would show her how generously chivalrous a man could be toward a girl who honored him with her confidence and appealed for his assistance.
He sat down by the side of his Amine, and clasped her in his arms. They remained silent. They knew too well each other's thoughts; and, excruciating as was the effort, they were both summoning up their courage to bear, and steeling their hearts against the conviction that, in this world, they must now expect to be for a time, perhaps for ever, separated.
"Well, you can go visiting instead," returned Madelon, suddenly. "I'd rather go a-visiting here!" cried Burr, with a quick fervor, and he turned back and came close to her. Madelon looked at him sharply, steeling her heart against his tender tone, but he met her gaze with passionate eyes. "Oh, Madelon, you look so beautiful to-night!" he whispered, hoarsely. Her eyes fell before his.
Nay, it behoveth to bury him who is dead, steeling our hearts, when once we have wept him for a day; but such as are left alive from hateful war must take thought of meat and drink, that yet more against our foes we may fight relentlessly ever, clad in unyielding bronze.
Steeling herself, she raised Flint from the chair and steadied him with one hand while she tried to smooth out the wrinkles of his clothing so that his mad condition would not be too apparent when they went outdoors. It was a hard task, but Zita soon accomplished it and, half supporting, she led him through a door on the farther side of the room.
She had said that she knew she was asking a trifle of him; and the fact that, materially, it would have been a trifle, had seemed at the moment only an added reason for steeling himself in his moral resistance to it. But now that he had gained his point and through her own generosity, as it still appeared the largeness of her attitude made his own seem cramped and petty.
And then in a couple of seconds more they were face to face. Muriel stared at him speechlessly. She felt cold from head to foot. She had known that he was coming. She had been steeling herself for weeks to meet him in an armour of conventional reserve. But all her efforts had come to this. Swift, swift as the wind over wheat, his coming swept across her new-born confidence.
Still in the same calm, polite voice Gaviller said: "I confess I was astonished at your assurance in coming to my house." This was a frank declaration of war. Ambrose, steeling himself, replied warily: "I did not come on business." "What did you come for?" Ambrose did not feel obliged to be as frank with father as with daughter. "I am merely looking at the country."
Of that muddled company, he was the only one who had the least knowledge of their whereabouts or guessed that those responsible for the signal-fire were Colonel Gideon Ward and Eleazar Bodge. He followed behind, steeling his soul to meet those victims of the complicated plot. An astonished bleat from Hiram Look, who led the column, announced them.
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