She could silence it with scarcely an effort, despite its clarity.

Up went the little chin, back went the shoulders, down went the elbows, and, in her wrath, the little princess did precisely what the old soldier had been striving to make her do; but his delighted cry of "Just right!" was a surprise to her, inasmuch as she had been conscious of no muscular effort whatsoever.

See, dear child, how strange is destiny, which is none other but the hand of Godfor we must be blind not to recognize in all these things the finger of divine Providenceit is precisely the efforts made to put an obstacle between us, to prevent us, me from fulfilling my duties of a pastor, you those of a Christian, which have been the cause of our sweet intimacy.

"Yes, you are rightbut for all that we do not instinctively admire effort as much as we admire easy brilliance.

It is as follows: "No effort adequate to even an approximate determination statistically of the intermixture of the White and Negro races has as yet been undertaken.

Peter clenched his jaws, his nostrils spread in his effort stoically to bottle up his grief and remorse, like a white man; in an effort to keep from howling his agony aloud, like a negro.

Once introduced, they said they were emancipated from the labour of the schoolroom, they could employ themselves as they liked, go out when they pleased, and their mothers never interfered with their amusements, except to see that they were becomingly dressed, chaperon them to balls, and second all their efforts at fascination.

All efforts outside were unwise and useless, not to say sinful.