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It isn't so very long ago, but I think we were both very young that summer years younger than we can ever be again. Don't you?" "Doubtless," said David Kent. He was at a pass in which he would have agreed with her if she had asserted that black was white. It was not weakness; it was merely that he was absorbed in a groping search for the word which would fit her changed mood.
She delicately and graphically told of the broken life after he, John, had passed out of it and they, who remained, bravely wound the tangled ends into a noble whole. Dale followed her words as if the story were of another and of a life he had never shared. "Philip wanted you to have all everything of which his weakness had deprived you!" Dale started. "Oh! Yes," he said vaguely; "I see.
The King whom we have chosen and who is the best we have to choose has his weakness." "It can be turned into additional strength. Give me Nais here, living and warm to fight for, and I am a stronger man by far than the cold viceroy and soldier that you speak about." "I have passed my word to that already, and you shall have her, but at the cost of damaging somewhat this new kingdom of yours.
Her heart and courage sank down in her weakness as they had never done before; and, without speaking, she turned her head away towards the darkness, feeling as if had been for nothing, and she might as well sink away in her exhaustion. Mere Perrine was more angry with Nanon than conscious of her Lady's weakness.
It is very natural to smile at such weakness when we see it in others, and yet exhibit unconsciously the same weakness ourselves under another form. There are some Christians who, when their minister pleases them well, are quite delighted with his discourses. They are "marrow and fatness" to their souls.
Thoughts of Michael she dismissed as well as she could, but she had passionate longings to go and take out the blue enamel locket from her despatch-box and look at it once more; she would not permit herself to indulge in this weakness, though. Her whole days were ruled with sternest discipline until she became quite thin, and the Père Anselme grew worried about her.
Several years afterwards, Louvois, who took care to be well informed of all that passed in the palace, found out that Madame de Maintenon had been again scheming in order to be declared Queen; that the King had had the weakness to promise she should be, and that the declaration was about to be made.
'The conies are a feeble folk, but they make their houses in the rocks. So our weakness may house itself there and be at rest. IV. Lastly, note the summons to trust. We know not whose voice it is that is heard in the last words of my text, but we know to whose ears it is addressed. It is to all. 'Trust ye in the Lord for ever.
Your fire-eating prophet cares little for the right of the cause, provided the fighter come out conqueror; and many a poet praises only that right which is might over-trampling weakness.
In not one of these cases has the opportunity for investigation been sufficient to render the witness able to give reliable evidence. A current magazine in discussing the weakness of testimony that comes from incompetent witnesses says:
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