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Nothing but the force of this withering apprehension, nothing but the paralyzing and deadening weight with which it falls upon and prostrates the heart of every man who has helpless dependants to protect, nothing but this could have thrown a brave people into consternation, or could have made any portion of this powerful Commonwealth, for a single instant, to have quailed and trembled."
Early autumn mists lay on the ground, and the withering grass quivered lightly. The White House disappeared in the shadows of the night, and only from one of the windows there shone a dull, dark-red light. "There she is, watching near her sick mother," Paul thought. And as he found no other means to call her he began to whistle. Twice, three times, he stopped to listen.
The busy spider in the Escurial could not deprive him of the laurel, but his own "word," his highest ambition in life, his power, he would consent to share with no mortal man, not even his brother. "Laurels are withering leaves, power is arable land," said Don Juan to Escovedo.
Perhaps, as Mollie had once remarked, that was why the girls were so fond of her because she was "so different." "Well, if you don't want 'em," Mollie replied practically, "why didn't you agree to my proposition? I promised to eat them for you, germs and all, and all I got for my sacrifice was one withering glance "
"I heard you give it to the clerk just now." "And why," she inquired with what she intended to be withering sarcasm, "have I been selected so suddenly for this important work?" "I heard the address you gave, that's why," he answered. "That's what makes it so important that you should go to that number at once. Ask for Mr. Fleck." "I can't go," she temporized.
She would threaten to destroy herself and so he would save her! She would bid him cast her away and so he would stand by her to the end! And the end would be simply the withering and shrivelling of those radiant qualities which he called his genius qualities which were so precious to him, but about which Nature knew nothing! So grim an aspect had life come to wear to this boy of twenty-one!
But the Xth Soudanese, panting yet unconquerable, responded to the call of their two white officers, and, crowning the little dunes behind which they had sheltered, met the exultant enemy with a withering fire and a responding shout. The range was short and the fire effective.
The blast was so close to his belly that it sheared away most of the landing gear. Stan banked and dropped back down toward the roofs of the city. As he laid over he saw the withering fire on the runway lift. Amid the ripped up slabs of cement he saw a man lying sprawled on his face. He was half covered by a slab of concrete. "One for the Dutch patriots," Stan said grimly.
Joan cast on Robert a withering look, and, speaking to the Catanese, said with a scornful air "You know, madam, I can refuse your son nothing." "All he asks," continued the lady, "is a title which is his due, and which he inherited from his father the title of Grand Seneschal of the Two Sicilies: I trust, my daughter, you will have no difficulty in granting this."
No sooner did the Adelantado hear of this fresh conspiracy, than he put himself on the march for the Vega with a strong body of men. Guarionex did not await his coming. He saw that every attempt was fruitless to shake off these strangers, who had settled like a curse upon his territories. He had found their very friendship withering and destructive, and he now dreaded their vengeance.
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