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Cool herself, she imagined the same of him, having good grounds for the delusion; so they passed through the cottage-garden and beneath the low porchway, into her little sitting-room, where she was proceeding to speak composedly of her preference for cottages, while untying her bonnet-strings: 'If I had begun my life in a cottage! when really a big storm-wave caught her from shore and whirled her to mid-sea, out of every sensibility but the swimming one of her loss of self in the man.
For all about here and this here island o' Barbados in partic'lar I've heard tell be subject to the most dreadful hurricanes that it's possible for mortal man to imagine, and we don't want to go in there and have our ship hove half a mile up into the woods by a storm-wave so that she won't be no more use to us.
This was partly due to the port authorities having learnt by bitter experience the necessity of considerably strengthening and improving the moorings, and also in a great measure to the absence of the storm-wave which had accompanied the previous cyclone and wrought such havoc and destruction.
But this Cinna had been elevated to power not by his will, but by pure accident; was there any wonder that he remained where the storm-wave of revolution had washed him up, till a second wave came to sweep him away again? Cinna and Sulla Italy and the Provinces in Favour of the Government
Since I have come to know you I cannot afford to have you make a sacrifice of yourself to produce my play, much as I desire to see you in new characters." As he dropped this letter into the box a storm-wave of his former bitterness and self-accusation swept over him. "That ends another attempt to get my play staged. Her manager will unquestionably refuse to consider it."
If he was the breakwater, she was the storm-wave, driven by the gale by the wind from afar, of which she felt herself the sport, and sometimes the victim without its changing her purpose in the least. "Only I shall not refuse food!" she thought. "I shall spare him that. I shall serve my sentence. It won't be long." But afterwards? Would she then be free?
It was as if some magician's wand, touching the crest of an inbreaking storm-wave, had instantaneously frozen it, white-slavering foam and all, to motionless rigidity. Ahead of all, standing erect and proud in his arabesque stirrups, with the green banner floating overhead, the chief of this whole marvelous band was stretching out the hand of salaam. "Fire!" cried the Master.
But this Cinna had been elevated to power not by his will, but by pure accident; was there any wonder that he remained where the storm-wave of revolution had washed him up, till a second wave came to sweep him away again? Cinna and Sulla Italy and the Provinces in Favour of the Government
Those weeks, those wonderful weeks that we lived, so close to primitive, savage Nature bloody fanged Nature! those weeks that I stood by your side and saw her paint for us her beautiful, terrible pictures of Life, pictures whose blue was the storm-wave and the sky veiled with fever-haze, whose white was the roaring surf and the glare of thunderbolts, whose red was fire and blood!
And, finally, there had risen upon them a storm-wave of feeling tyrannous, tempestuous bursting in reproach and agitation, leaving behind it, bare and menacing, the old, ugly facts, unaltered and unalterable. Warkworth was little less miserable than herself. That she knew. He loved her, as it were, to his own anger and surprise.
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