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Suddenly something went awry in the inflamed chambers of Elizabeth's mind as if an electric current had been abruptly shut off. She hesitated; she had meant to say more; but there was a staggering vacuity. With an effort she grasped a wavering thing of tangibility, and said: "I'm going now, father to give the keys to the butler for breakfast. You can question Captain Barlow."
O Wilhelm! the hermit's cell, his sackcloth, and girdle of thorns would be luxury and indulgence compared with what I suffer. Adieu! I see no end to this wretchedness except the grave. I must away. Thank you, Wilhelm, for determining my wavering purpose. For a whole fortnight I have thought of leaving her. I must away. She has returned to town, and is at the house of a friend.
But for now, here it was fixated on him and wavering ambivalently between hope and belief that humans were the good, the god, the sustenance, and the deliverer its cries as supplications of prayer. He kept thinking that as there was no god, god was an obligation to all humans who were in their own way, able to imagine such an abstraction and climb into its costume.
Eusebius of Cæsarea yielded a reluctant and ambiguous consent to the Homoousion; and the wavering conduct of the Nicomedian Eusebius served only to delay, about three months, his disgrace and exile.
It was shaded by tall elms, and the graveyard surrounded it completely, many of the graves being directly under its windows. We always took the corner path through it, passing the King plot where our kindred of four generations slept in a green solitude of wavering light and shadow.
Wilhelmine followed without opposition the bright form which moved before her through the dark rooms. She felt as if under the influence of a charm; her heart beat violently, her feet trembled, but still she felt no more wavering or fear; a joyous confidence filled her whole being.
Meanwhile Sulla himself on the right wing led his cavalry against the exposed flank of the enemy; the Asiatic infantry gave way before it was even properly engaged, and its giving way carried confusion also into the masses of the cavalry. A general attack of the Roman infantry, which through the wavering demeanour of the hostile cavalry gained time to breathe, decided the victory.
"It won't mend matters trying to get clear of me, Chester. I know it was you and I want an answer a truthful one, mind you to my question. I am your friend, and I am not going to harm you if you tell me the truth." Her clear and incisive gaze met and held irresistibly the boy's wavering one. The sullen obstinacy of his face relaxed. "Well," he muttered finally, "I was just desperate, that's why.
She saw a sudden wavering gleam in his eyes which in another man she would have set down to fear. "Miss Dora Glynde," he repeated; and the expression of his face was so serene again that the look which had passed away from it began already to present itself to her memory as a conception of her own brain.
Visions, momentary but very vivid, crowded upon him, and among them, one of a girl whom he had kissed in the face of death. That girl Yes, there was something. His mind asserted itself again, his purpose dominated his wavering faculties, and he staggered to his feet. "Helen!" he muttered. "Helen!" He faced the bank of the stream on the other side from that which had caused his downfall.
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