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She had hardly to look her interrogation for the news; it radiated. But he stated such matter-of-course briefly. 'The good ladies are ready to receive our girl. Her chagrin resolved to a kind of solace of her draggled pride, in the idea, that he who tamed everybody to submission, might well have command of her. The note, signed D. and V., was shown. There stood the words.
Whilst strolling about one day on these heights I caught a fine cock, which I tamed by tying him to my knapsack by the leg and carrying him about with me, much to the amusement of my comrades; for after I had had him about a fortnight, he became so tame that he would sit on my knapsack quite quietly, without even the string to his leg.
'So you thought you'd outwitted me? he said. 'Now you know I've not tamed horses all my life for nothing. 'Leave me be. 'You don't want me to. 'Ah! I do. 'After I've come all these miles and miles to see you, day after day? 'I dunna care how many miles you've acome, said Hazel passionately; 'what for do you do it? Go back to the dark house where you come from, and leave me be!
I have indeed guarded myself thus wisely and for long against Love; never once before did I wish to do aught for him, but now I am too gracious to him. And what thanks does he owe me, since he cannot have service or kindness of me by fair means? It is by force that Love has tamed my pride; and I must needs be subject to his will.
Paul sat in a corner pretending to read a story relating the experiences of certain infants of phenomenal courage and coolness in the Arctic regions. They killed bears and tamed walruses all through the book; but for the first time, perhaps, since their appearance in print their exploits fell flat.
"You can see how much marriage has tamed your mother down," observed Uncle Bart dispassionately; "howsomever, though your mother can't be called tame, she's got her good p'ints, for she's always to be counted on. The great thing in life, as I take it, Cephas, is to know exactly what to expect.
"Well," he said, watching Antrim keenly; "if he's as fast as he used to be before gettin' to be a big guy in this neck of the woods tamed him you'll have to be lightnin' an' then some!" He wheeled, and went out of the door, where he stood, looking toward the plains on the other side of the river, grinning derisively.
'She moves like a lady. 'She has been thoroughly drilled, sneered Urania. 'The original savage in her has been tamed as much as possible. 'I should like to know more of that girl, said Dr. Rylance, 'for she looks as if she has force of character. I'm sorry you and she are not better friends.
Defeated, but not dismayed crushed to the earth, but not humiliated he seemed to grow more haughty beneath disaster, and to experience a fierce satisfaction in draining the last dregs of bitterness. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.
Now Baldulph, the brother of Colgrin, tamed by the shore, awaiting the coming of Cheldric, the king, and his Saxons from Germany. When he heard the tidings of what had befallen Colgrin at the Ford of Douglas, and of how he was holden straitly by Arthur in York, he was passing heavy and sorrowful, for with this Colgrin was all his hope. Baldulph made no further tarrying for Cheldric.
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