Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was another pair of blue eyes in that seat. They belonged to a calm-looking, middle-aged lady, apparently the mother of the fair one; but, with a most commendable matronly circumspection, she seemed to be quite absorbed in the passing landscape, and I was willing to have...
Thus the two lovers were happy, and the philosopher, smiling a calm benediction, was happy also; the villains were foiled, and everything was as it should...
Disengaging her hand from his throat, Bob assured her in as calm a tone as he could command under the trying circumstances, that he was not "her own," and he also would be greatly obliged to her if she would not "have him once more" again. After hesitating a moment, she evidently concluded not to, and resumed her seat...
...calm and peaceful breath...
...much relieved and considerably set up at the success of your stratagem. You feel that you have shown a deep knowledge of cause and effect in nature. You smile complacently at your friends on shore who are breathlessly watching you, and you are resolved that they shall see you calm, cool, and collected. You think the battle over. Alas! you know not the diabolical wiles of the monster with which you have to deal; you know not the depths to which its villany will carry it (and you, too, later). In the very midst of your exultation you are disturbed...