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It was in the dusk of a wet night of early June, with the sea in a tumble and the wind blowing fretfully from the west of north, that the mail-boat made our harbour. For three weeks we had kept watch for her, but in the end we were caught unready the lookouts in from the Watchman, my father's crew gone home, ourselves at evening prayer in the room where my mother lay abed.
He could not use Celia as a medium, because he did not choose that she should know the kind of gossip he had in his mind; and before Dorothea happened to arrive he had been trying to imagine how, with his shyness and unready tongue, he could ever manage to introduce his communication.
On the sacred island the last great Prince of the Saxon race, Edward, son of Ethelred the Unready, found Dunstan's little brotherhood of Benedictine monks, who were living in mud huts round a small stone chapel.
Before the captain could reply, his lady addressed him. "Whom have you there, Conrad?" It seemed as if the unready captain would get no word said, for again before he had made answer the girl spoke to the Countess. "I do implore your Ladyship to grant me speech with you." The Countess looked down doubtfully upon the supplicant, evidently prejudiced by her rags and wildly straying hair.
And now, as one a-dream, he beheld her start and look at him with eyes wide and darkly blue within whose depths was that which stirred within him a memory of other days in so much he would have spoken, yet found the words unready and hard to come by. "Lady, thine eyes, methinks are not nun's eyes!"
But we didn't want them out at once; we wanted to keep them on until some one of constructive ability, in any party, was ready to take the reins. The trouble about the Labour people was that so far there was no one of constructive ability; they were manifestly unready. They had no one good enough. No party had.
Let me not shrink from fresh life and thought and duty, or be unready to come out of the shell of my sickness when thou sendest for me. I wait thy will. I wait even the light that I feel now as if I dared not encounter for weariness of body and faintness of spirit." "Ah!" cried Leopold, "there you have touched it! How can you know so well what I feel?"
The whole Russian fleet in the East, moreover, was, it is said, badly demoralized and unready for war, owing chiefly to bureaucratic corruption and to the fact that not merely its strategical direction but its actual command was vested in the Viceroy, Alexieff, with headquarters on shore. Operations Around Port Arthur
They are saying to the people: 'You work under our ORDERS. One power can own and manage industry. "It is hard for individual ambition just now. Yet we find the Journal, like all the vehicles and mouthpieces of radicalism, other than those of the Socialists, unready to take the first step necessary in any conflict; namely, to decide who is the enemy.
"It is getting late," said he aloud. "Good-bye!" "Good-bye great man!" cried Lousteau, shaking hands with Bianchon. When the journalist and Madame de la Baudraye, side by side in the rickety old chaise, had recrossed the Loire, they both were unready to speak. In these circumstances, the first words that break the silence are full of terrible meaning.
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