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"I promise to make your little girl happy," he whispered. He almost fell in stooping to the portrait, but caught himself and stood carefully quiet, trembling, and speaking to himself. "Where is your strength?" he demanded. "I reckon it is joy that has unsteadied your laigs." The door opened. It was she, come back with his dinner.
But she was anything but literary, and she could not analyze her excitement. The man's physical charm, his melancholy, the intensity of what he said, affected, unsteadied her as music was apt to affect her.
Venters gently put her from him and steadied her upon her feet; and all the while his blood raced wild, and a thrilling tingle unsteadied his nerve, and something that he had seen and felt in her that he could not understand seemed very close to him, warm and rich as a fragrant breath, sweet as nothing had ever before been sweet to him.
It was for his life that he now wielded sword, and he was not now taken by surprise as he had been in our former meetings, or unsteadied by a desire of making a great flourish before a lady. He now brought to his use all his training as a fencer. He had a strong wrist and a good eye, despite the dissolute life that he had led.
A sudden crashing of brushwood brought me to a standstill, and sent the blood in columns to my heart. Then I laughed loudly it was only a hare, the prettiest and pertest thing imaginable. I went on. Something whizzed past my face. I drew back in horror it was a bat, merely a bat. My nerves were out of order, the fall had unsteadied them; I must pull myself together.
Their position, however, was none too secure. The buoy had a rise and fall of seven feet. Unsteadied by keel or rudder, it bobbed unexpectedly this way and that. The boys were obliged to cling fast to keep their footing on the narrow, slippery top. A sudden jump of the rolling can wrenched Percy's right hand from its hold. But for his left, he would have been flung into the sea.
I was so old then! I was like a hard, tigerish soul, tried and tempted day by day. He made me that." She could not bear pain, he saw: remembrance of it, alone, made the flesh about her lips blue, unsteadied her brain; the well-accented face grew vacant, dreary; neither nerves nor will of this woman were tough. Her family were not the stuff out of which voluntary heroes are made.
Every eye was instantly turned toward the stately pillar of white granite that sparkled in the sunlight like an immense carven jewel, ... great Heaven! ... It was tottering to and fro like the unsteadied mast of a ship at sea! ... One look sufficed, and a frightful panic ensued a horrible, brutish stampede of creatures without faith in anything human or divine save their own wretched personalities, the King, infected by the general scare, urged his horses into furious gallop, and dashed through the cursing, swearing, howling throng like an embodied whirlwind, and for a few seconds nothing seemed distinctly visible But a surging mass of infuriated humanity, fighting with itself for life.
Vandamme, noted even then as one of the hardest hitters in the army, was leading his division of Soult's corps up the northern slopes of the plateau; by a sidelong slant his men cut off a detachment of Russians in the village, and, aided by the brigade of Thiébault, swarmed up the hill at a speed which surprised and unsteadied its defenders.
By this it must not be understood that he was at all unsteadied by the potency of his medicinal tipple he was simply in a bland humor that peculiar sort of humor which finds strange and mystic beauty in everything, and contemplates the meanest trifles with emotions of large benevolence.
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