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And the dear girl gave a long slow sigh partly that the family had at last such a champion, partly that she herself should have been doomed to such complete uselessness in so high a cause. She quite failed to realize that she alone and no other was the real motive-power of her family's tardy spurt. As for Mrs. Bates, Jane caught quite another side of her.
He hesitated, feeling doubtless the uselessness of further protest, yet she permitted him small opportunity for consideration. "Major," she said quietly but firmly, "I should be pleased to have you escort me to the house." These words, gently as they were spoken, still constituted a command.
I do not mean that it should be positively forbidden or punished, but that it should never pass unnoticed; his attention should be invariably called to its uselessness, and to the annoyance it gives to other people. Children begin by being good-natured little grumblers at every thing which goes wrong, simply from the outspokenness of their natures. All they think they say and act.
The other appeared to understand his meaning, and, at the same instant, to feel the folly, as well as the uselessness, of attempting any longer to mislead one that already knew so much of his former mode of life. "Indian, thou sayest true," he rejoined gloomily "the mind seeth far, and it seeth often in the bitterness of sorrow.
Howard spoke sharply to Terror, but he paid no heed to the call. The boy repeated it with the same uselessness, and he was beginning to become seriously alarmed for his fate when Shasta laid down his pipe and rose to his feet. The eyes of the three were now centered upon him. The Pah Utah left his gun and blanket upon the ground, so that his arms and breast, excepting a few ornaments, were bare.
So they offered to back me to take over Defense in exchange for my supporting their proposal. It looked too good to pass up." "Even at the price of wrecking Science and Technology?" "It was wrecked, or left to rust into uselessness, long ago.
They were the wedding-day present of a bridegroom to his bride, who, reluctant to spend her husband's first gift, kept them until she passed them over, as heirlooms, to her four grand-children. They were thus at last put out to usury, after many years of gathering "rust" in hoarded idleness and uselessness.
West felt the utter uselessness of an attempt to appeal to either. "Where is Natalie Coolidge?" he asked, his own determination hardening. "What do you propose doing with her?" Hobart's teeth exhibited themselves in a sardonic grin. "That is our business, but you can bet she'll not interfere." "And a similar answer, I presume, will apply also to my case?" "It will.
If this were so, it was merely because he realised the uselessness of explaining the peculiar intoxication of his mood, for he suspected that the other would regard such emotions as fit only for women and poets. "You might come for a walk with me," he suggested. "The exercise would do you good."
To show him that the authority of his subjects was thought necessary in order to confirm his own, wounded him in his most delicate part. The English were made to understand the weakness and the uselessness of what they asked; for the powerlessness of our States- General was explained to them, and they saw at once how vain their help would be, even if accorded.
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