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He went out and Osborn, who felt limp now the strain had slackened, leaned back heavily in his chair and looked at his wife. "The fellow is a working farmer, but he struck just the right note. Well, he has beaten me, and it's easier to be beaten by him than I thought. But he states he's coming back " "Yes," said Mrs. Osborn. "I think he means to ask for Grace." Osborn knitted his brows.
"Many the chiefs who drank the mead As the sun rose over the plain, But small the band who bound their wounds When the heath was dark again." As the last words died away the hermit began to talk excitedly and volubly, and in a strain new to his guest. "I once sang such songs," he said. "I sailed the seas in my long ship, and men feared my name feared me, Andreas, the man of God.
But the ache and strain of it could not go on much longer. He worked incessantly. Still it was only twelve o'clock. As if he had nailed his clothing against the desk, he stood there and worked, forcing every stroke out of himself. It was a quarter to one; he could clear away. Then he ran downstairs. "You will meet me at the Fountain at two o'clock," he said. "I can't be there till half-past."
Just a gulp which you had to strain your ears to hear, and which, at that, might have been a mere taking-in of breath such as every athlete must do, and all was over. This child of his was the real thing. It had been proved beyond possibility of criticism. There are moments when a man on parole forgets his promise. All thought of rules and prohibitions went from Kirk.
Strain as little as ever I can backwards, remembering that my pain will come by and by, though in the very straining I do not feel it. Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind.
If Widow Thrale had been seized with a sudden mania for the improbable, and had set her wits to work their hardest on a carefully chosen typical example, could she have lighted on one that would have imposed a greater strain on human powers of belief than the presence, a mile off, of her mother, dead fifty years since?
It is said that one reason the soldiers were obliged to wear the wrapped leggings was, not that they would keep the water out, but that they would strain the mud and at least keep the feet comparatively clean. There were sixteen of these camps at this time and probably twelve or thirteen thousand soldiers were already established in them.
After the first two or three hours he had felt no fear whatever as to the ability of the craft to weather the gale, but it was a long strain, and he was deeply thankful when the wind abated sufficiently for him to be able to hoist the reefed mainsail again and to lie to comfortably. As soon as this was done he went below, and slept for twelve hours.
The strain of the preceding day had wrought upon the fears of both black and white, and now this single shot in the night conjured all manner of terrible conjectures in their terrified minds.
I have been in France, and in other countries, and have seen beasts of all kinds, but such a mule as that I have never seen; but she is dead my mule is dead she fell upon the road and died of a sudden!" He continued in this strain for a considerable time, and the burden of his lamentation was always, "My mule is dead, she fell upon the road, and died of a sudden."
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