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In 1525 the Reformation, as a great upstirring of the popular mind of Central Europe, in contradistinction to its character as an academic and purely political movement, reached high-water mark, and may almost be said to have exhausted itself. Until the latter year it was purely a revolutionary movement, attracting to itself all the disruptive elements of its time.
"Well, you've given me some, anyhow." Seagraves felt that it was a wild, grand upstirring of the modem democrat against the aristocratic, against the idea of caste and the privilege of living on the labor of others. He had exposed also the native spring of the emigrant by uttering the feeling that it is better to be an equal among peasants than a servant before nobles.
She rose to go, and Belinda also, with languid response of motion, as if Paulina Maria were an upstirring wind. When Paulina Maria opened the outer door there was a rush of dank night air. "Don't you want me to walk home with you and Aunt Belinda?" asked Jerome. "It's pretty dark."
By the way, has the capitol gang any notion of your part in all this upstirring?" Kent smiled and handed the editor an open letter. It was from Receiver Guilford. The post of general counsel for the Trans-Western was vacant, and the letter was a formal tender of the office to the "Hon. David Kent." "H'm," said the editor. "I don't understand that a little bit." "Why?"
"You have your work cut out to dodge the British light-horse, Captain Forney," said I; capping the venture by telling him what little I knew of Tarleton's dispositions, and also of the Indian-arming plot I had overheard. "We'll dodge the redcoats, never you fear; we're at our best in that," he rejoined, carelessly. "And as to the Cherokee upstirring, that's an old story.
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