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Godfrey looked straight at him with her piercing black eyes from the moment he had stood before her. Her power over him seemed like that of a charmer. Her magic nature had completely overcome him. Never did a naval hero appear on deck after a victory more transcendently grand than did Margaret Godfrey at that moment of her life. She pressed his hand more closely and said: "Paul, are you ill?"
Then her test and his acceptance of it, the victory he had really won over her, the knowledge that in the future she would treat him with respect.
Similarly, the palm, which, as the symbol of victory, was carried before the conqueror in triumphal processions, is generally regarded as denoting victory.
They are beginning to think that perhaps Christ was right after all in saying 'All things are possible to him that believeth, and that it is not such a blunder after all to make faith the first step to all holiness and purity, and the secret of victory in life's tussle.
At that time Russia redeemed from autocracy looked to be a bulwark of Allied victory. The night we talked about Russia at Capetown she had become the prey of red terror and the plaything of organized assassination. Smuts looked rather wistful when he said: "You cannot defeat Russia. Napoleon learned this to his cost and so will the rest of the world.
If you attacked them it might cause a dangerous fight, which the Roman sword would finish. Trust to us. He shall not escape punishment." And the priests who stood around Nathanael cried: "With us and for us: that is your salvation!" Then Dathan and his friends exclaimed triumphantly: "Our victory is near."
He made a very good figure, and in the glory of victory, Ethel herself began to grow proud of him, and the children's great object in life was to make the jackdaws cry, "Rivers for ever!" Flora had always declared that she would be at Stoneborough for the nomination.
The fourth phase had begun, that of habit, the final victory in these plans of campaign, which make the women of this class say of a man, "I hold him!" He had merged his own defects, merits, tastes, and pleasures in Madame Schontz, and he found himself at this period of his life, either from lassitude, indifference, or philosophy, a man unable to change, who clings to wife or mistress.
Both he and you are very vainglorious, I suppose, about O'Connell; but although I was delighted on every account at his late victory, or rather at the late victory of justice and constitutional law, he never was a hero of mine and is not likely to become one. Such poetry in the position, and such prose in the speech! He has not the stuff in him of which heroes are made.
According to the Old Testament, when everything went well with the Jews their God was pleased, and when things went wrong with them he was angry. This state of mind survives into our advanced civilisation, where people still talk of "judgments," still pray for good things, and still implore their God for victory when they have a scrimmage with their neighbors.
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