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He might refuse, but that would not save her and he would be shot as well. Why should he suffer because she had lost her courage and turned traitress? She tried to collect her senses, and to think properly. Everything felt blurred and far off. One thing alone seemed certain that there was no way out of the impasse. Emile had walked to the glass-door and unlocked it. Then he came back to her.
It is simply the result of the impasse to which it would otherwise be brought by the grotesque teaching that the Deity would condemn everlastingly the soul of an unbaptised infant.
Then she said abruptly: "Are you a Constitutionalist or a Liberal, Mr. Martin?" Neither name bore any relation to facts. "Are we going to talk politics?" said I reproachfully. "Yes, a little; you see we got to an impasse on the other topic. Tell me." "Which are you, signorina?" I asked. I really wanted to know; so did a great many people.
Yet how could he see her and feel her and not tell her everything? She would surely ask she would want to know and then when he tried to think beyond that point he felt simply lost. It was an impasse none the less tragic because he was only nine. To tell her every little thing was as simple a necessity of life as eating or sleeping; and till this bewildering moment as much a matter of course.
That sobered me, by putting the matter in a new light; and I sat a moment looking at him and reviewing Diego's story, which assumed on the instant an aspect so uncommon and almost incredible that I wondered how I had ever allowed it to pass. But when I proceeded from this to the substance of Maignan's charge I found an IMPASSE in this direction also, and I smiled. "So it is Diego, is it?" I said.
Leaving the door ajar, then, he turned to one of the front windows, parted its draperies, and peered out, over the little garden and through the iron ribs of the gate, to the street, where a single gas-lamp, glimmering within a dull golden halo of mist, made visible the scant length of the impasse Stanislas, empty, rain-swept, desolate. The rain persisted with no hint of failing purpose....
That the cabman was evidently familiar with the odd address, "Impasse des Nonnes," brought a measure of relief to Senator Burton's mind, and as he turned and gazed into the candid eyes of the girl sitting by his side he was ashamed of his vague suspicions.
It was that, of course, which had first earned them their title. But Germany herself, when she struck her great blow at England, hardly wounded the British Navy at all. Her cunning had drawn our ships into a Mediterranean impasse when they were sadly needed upon our coasts, and her strategy had actually destroyed one British line of battle-ship, one cruiser, and two gunboats.
I do not know whether they would go any farther, but on your account as well as my own I will not take the risk. We have come to an impasse. I am sorry. I wish we might have been friends, but what you have said makes it impossible. There is only one thing to do, and that is for you to go away." He eased off his sheet, rounded the fort, and set a course for the moorings.
As he was emerging from the Impasse Saint-Mittre with hesitating steps, wondering whether it would not be dangerous to solicit Silvere's pardon from the prefect, he saw Aristide prowling about the timber-yard. The latter, recognising his father, ran up to him with an expression of anxiety and whispered a few words in his ear.
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