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In his absence there was, among some of the troops about Fort Donelson, fresh from civil life and restive under the inactivity and restraint of a winter camp, some disorder and insubordination. There was, moreover, some marauding in which officers participated.
During the two weeks that had just passed she had become peevish and fretful from enforced inactivity and now the thought of getting up and going downstairs had brought the smiles to her face and the light to her eyes. Moreover, Mrs. Rose was impressed also by the determination of her big young son and began to think that perhaps his way might be right after all.
The horrid inactivity of the day, joined to the weight that was on his mind, nearly drove him mad; as long as he had work to do, while he had to dispose of the dead man's body, while he had his father and his sister near him, as long as he was hurrying through the country with Reynolds, the energy of whose character had for a time relieved him, as long as the sweat was pouring down his face, and his legs had been weary under him, he had borne much better the misery, which he felt now he was always doomed to bear; for he had then thought less of the past and the future; but now he could occupy his mind with nothing but the remembrance of the death he had inflicted, and the anticipation of the death he was to suffer.
In this brief interval of expectation and inactivity, the mates again approached their commander. "It is an awful night, Captain Wilder!" said Earing, presuming on his rank to be the first to speak. "I have known far less notice given of a shift of wind," was the answer.
The general charged his inactivity upon the Piedmontese and Neapolitans, whom, he said, nothing could induce to act; and he concerted a plan with Nelson for embarking a part of the Austrian army, and landing it in the rear of the French. But the English commodore soon began to suspect that the Austrian general was little disposed to any active operations.
"Tears of repentance," said a popular poet, "give relief, and call us to new exploits." Russia was compared to a strong giant who awakes from sleep, stretches his brawny limbs, collects his thoughts, and prepares to atone for his long inactivity by feats of untold prowess. All believed, or at least assumed, that the recognition of defects would necessarily entail their removal.
Our situation was even worse than Miko could know. The Erentz motors were running hot our power draining, the crack widening. When it would break, we could not tell; but the danger was like a sword over us. An anxious thirty minutes for us, this second interlude. Grantline called a meeting of all our little force, with every man having his say. Inactivity was no longer a feasible policy.
He was sensible, that the people over whom he ruled were at once fickle in their disposition, impatient of long repose, and full of hatred against their neighbours; and he almost dreaded the consequences of the inactivity to which a long truce might reduce them.
The enemy being thus completely shrouded from view, the infantry stood motionless. A sullen expectation brooded over the colossal forces, who realised danger, but were yet condemned to a torturing inactivity.
From all of which it will be gathered that the worthy man, with the restlessness characteristic of the sailor, was beginning to weary of his inactivity although during the past week he had been anything but inactive, it may be mentioned and was pining for something fresh in the way of excitement.
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