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Updated: May 29, 2025
I have; but not without endless trial and tribulation, for they spill off the path on either side in a very remarkable way, and when I rush after one with a flank movement, the column breaks and falls back utterly demoralized. I look after the little trees, the unbent twigs; they are more interesting to me than your monsters.
No doubt it was, if he so considered it, for he appeared to be fully aware of his own importance. After all, it was an agreeable practice. Since no man in public life can risk offending people of importance, His Honor unbent. Gray turned a current jest upon Texas politics into a neat compliment to the city's executive; they laughed; formality vanished; personal magnetism made itself felt.
I replied to him as quietly as might be: "In our parts beyond the seas we hear often of the King's Guard, but never have my eyes rested upon their uniform before." Observing my shoulder straps he unbent somewhat and inquired: "Thou bearest the rank of captain?" "Aye, comrade, in the service of the King in his province of Louisiana.
John's Church, and General Ramsey, who was one of the groomsmen, is authority for the statement that the President, usually so grave and unsocial, unbent for the nonce, and danced at the wedding ball in a Virginia reel with great spirit.
Snow. "Would you send it back to him?" "Yes, or I'd take it with a pair of tongs and throw it out of the window. I tell you there's a nasty trick done up in that paper; and if you're going to keep it, don't say anything about it." The family laughed, and even Mr. Snow unbent himself so far as to smile and wipe his spectacles.
And then, the ladies having withdrawn, the two men put on that business air with which our sex tries to atone to itself for having unbent to the lighter minds of the other; heaven knows what women do when the men with whom they have been talking go away.
Without that armour, there will not be solidity enough in our character to bear without breaking the steady pressure of the world's weight, still less the fierce hammering of special temptation. To stand erect, and in that sense to have a right spirit one that is upright and unbent we must have sure footing in God, and have His energy infused into our shrinking limbs.
A shout of jubilation went up from a hundred throats now, for Dick had just spun his second spit-ball across the plate. It was equal to any that Ripley had shown. "Confound the upstart! He's getting close to me on that style!" gasped the astonished Ripley. Now, Dick held the ball for a few moments, rolling it over in his hands. An instant later, he unbent. Then he let drive.
You get me away up to London, and the first thing that happens when I'm here is that you want to take me back. You make me tired. It was borne in upon me that there was something in his point of view. My sudden change of mind must have seemed inexplicable to him. And, having by a miracle succeeded in finding him, I was in a mood to be generous. I unbent.
The latter glanced at it, then back to the young fellow before him. "Glad to see you, Mr. Orde," he unbent slightly. "I've been expecting you. If you're as good a man as your father, you'll succeed. If you're not as good a man as your father, you may get on well enough. But you've got to be some good on your own account. We'll see." He raised his voice slightly. "Jim!" he called.
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