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Ralph did not feel like sitting as the guest of a man who had cruelly defrauded him, and had only done him justice when he was actually compelled to do so. In due time our hero sailed for Europe with Mr. Ralph Pendleton. They divided their time between Paris and Berlin, Herbert studying at both places.
He was afraid of Peter's answers, but that fear was passing now. In fact, Peter had answered surprisingly well, and his companion was breathing easily, as a man should in a state of mental health. It was not until this moment the German officer examining his passports, the ranker studying the insignia upon his sleeve that Peter met the disaster of the future.
The doctor remained for several hours studying this painful struggle of the will against superior power; he was terrified at seeing those eyes always fixed, ever directed on some invisible object; was terrified at the monotonous beating of that heart from which never a sigh arose to vary the melancholy state; for often pain becomes the hope of the physician. Half a day passed away thus.
Her brother sat almost opposite them: a tall, spare man, with a somewhat expressionless countenance, except for the aggressive hardness in his eyes. Vane had noticed this look, and it had aroused his dislike, but he had not observed it in the eyes of Miss Horsfield, though it was present now and then. Nor did he realize that while she chatted she was unobtrusively studying him.
Her eyes had been wandering restlessly around the tent as though searching for something which she could not find. "Have you a good map of the district?" she asked. He went to his military chest, opened it, and produced a map. For a while, both hands on the table, she leaned above the map studying the environment. "And Stuart?
See chapter on Bismarck. Yet another good friend was Herr von Nostitz-Wallwitz, representative of Saxony, who was able, on one occasion, to render a real service to American education. Two or three young ladies, one of whom is now the admired head of one of the foremost American colleges for women, were studying at the University of Leipsic.
Then, in their own land and in other lands, in their own day and forever after, people can find out the delicate thoughts by studying the pages of the music, seeking with their hearts the thought that came out of the master's heart. Do you wonder that composers revere their art? We are told of Chopin that art was for him a high and holy vocation. Do you wonder?
And he believed at first that it was the one thing that had led his Chief to select this spot. He changed his mind in the first thirty minutes, as he stood studying the mountain peak that stood sentinel at the gateway of the Black Belt. With a new sense of the importance of his mission he sought a boarding house.
"The bag will be the most economical process for all that," Eurie said, laughing at Miss Erskine's disdainful face. "I presume very likely; but as I did not start on this trip for the purpose of studying social economy, I shall vote for the dinner." "And I shall take to the bag method," Eurie said, decidedly. Opposition always decided her.
Some slowly accumulating consciousness of his power seemed to intimidate her. He could detect a change in her hearing, in her speech itself. "Jim, I can't tell you," she slowly asserted. "I can't do it!" "But I 've got 'o know," he stubbornly maintained. "And I 'm going to." She sat studying him for a minute or two. Her face had lost its earlier arrogance.
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