Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as formal and unnatural as the hoops and wigs and stiff skirts; but their own allotted places in the great procession of the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the silent way of the
rest.
Tom, as has been said, had come up from the third with a good character, but the temptations of the lower-fourth soon proved too strong for him, and he rapidly fell away, and became as unmanageable as the
rest. For some weeks, indeed, he succeeded in maintaining the appearance of steadiness, and was looked upon favourably by his new master, whose eyes were first opened by the following little incident.
Even her eyelids
rested numb and heavily over her sleepy eyes.
On the memorable day of the Crucifixion he stood in this old doorway with his arms akimbo, looking out upon the struggling mob that was approaching, and when the weary Saviour would have sat down and
rested him a moment, pushed him rudely away and said, "Move on!" The Lord said, "Move on, thou, likewise," and the command has never been revoked from that day to this.
I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the
rest."
Now the camp of the tribe was distant six days' journey, and when they were yet one day's journey off it began to snow, and they felt weary and longed for
rest. Therefore they made a fire, cooked some food, and spread out their skins to sleep.
The gong struck, and after the fleeting minute of
rest, they went at it again--in Joe's corner, for Ponta had made a rush to meet him clear across the ring.
Isn't it a thousand cruel pities, brother, that instead of taking his nat'ral
rest and qualifying himself for further exertions in this here honourable cause, he should be playing at soldiers like a boy?
Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly
rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
This was his little vacation; he had resolved to devote it to
rest and love, and in both matters he prospered.
They procured a humble lodging in a small farmhouse, surrounded by meadows where Nicholas had often revelled when a child with a troop of merry schoolfellows; and here they took up their
rest.
He said almost nothing, and smiled rarely; but as he
rested there we all had a sense of his utter content.