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...ublication A Penn State University Electronic Classics Series Publication Youth, A Narrative by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Youth, A Narrative by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad Youth by Joseph Conrad “… But the Dwarf answered: No; something human is de... ...earer to me than the wealth of all the world.” Grimm’ s T ales. To My Wife YOUTH: A NARRATIVE YOUTH THIS COULD HAVE OCCURRED nowhere but in England, w... ...t, something that made me love the old thing—something that appealed to my youth! “We left London in ballast—sand ballast—to load a cargo of coal in a... ...n trouble— couldn’t be happy unless something went wrong. He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it i... ...er more— or less. However, they are both dead, and Mrs. Beard is dead, and youth, strength, genius, thoughts, achievements, simple hearts—all die … . ... ...hout mercy, the words written on her stern: ‘Judea, London. Do or Die.’ “O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me sh... ...ee miles an hour. What could you expect? She was tired— that old ship. Her youth was where mine is—where yours is— you fellows who listen to this yarn...

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...sh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two youths,--the youth of belief, the youth of action; these are often commingled in men whom Nature has favored and who, like Caesar, like Newton, like Bonaparte, are the greatest among great men....

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...hort as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two youths,—the youth of belief, the youth of action; these are often commingle... ...who could evoke between these two infinitudes the illu- sions that nourish youth, —we pressed each other’s hands at every change in the sheet of water...

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...h as I wished to see him I had kept my letter of introduction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting him-- conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my countrypeople, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as well as the dignity of genius....

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...in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting him— conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and espe... ...red to know by instinct how a young American of critical pretensions, rash youth, would look when much divided between ea- gerness and modesty. He too... ...; he liked a little perhaps—it was a pardon- able weakness—to bewilder the youthful mind even while wishing to win it over. My ingenuous sympathy rece... ...he risks! It takes ever so long to believe it. You don’t know yet, my dear youth. It isn’t till one has been watch- ing her some forty years that one ...

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...E VAGABOND (To an air of Schubert) ........................................................................................................... 5 II - YOUTH AND LOVE - I ....................................................................................................................................... 6 III - YOUTH AND LOVE - II .............................................

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...................................................................... 5 II - YOUTH AND LOVE - I ........................................................... ..................................................................... 6 III - YOUTH AND LOVE - II .......................................................... ...All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me. 6 Songs of Travel II - YOUTH AND LOVE - I Once only by the garden gate Our lips we joined and part... ...thunder, I fling my soul and body down For God to plough them under. III - YOUTH AND LOVE - II To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside. Passi... ...e, bearded and few of words. What, what, was I to honour thee? A child; A youth in ardour but a child in strength, Who after virtue’s golden chariot-... ...hat honours the brave, crowned her himself with the crown. The beauties of youth are frail, but this was a jewel of age. Life, that delights in the br... ...Do you remember – can we e’er forget? – How, in the coiled-perplexities of youth, In our wild climate, in our scowling town, We gloomed and shivered, ... ... dawn, – With sudden ardour, these desire the day: So sang in the gloom of youth the bird of hope; So we, exulting, hearkened and desired. For lo! as ... ... wind In our inclement city? what return But the image of the emptiness of youth, Filled with the sound of footsteps and that voice Of discontent and ...

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...throughout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom....

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... absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his ki... ... the foremost of the party, an old esquire, who grasped the bridle-rein of youth by his side, drew up his own horse, and that which he was dragging on... ...ould still bless the saints 31 Yo n g e and bid you gang.’ Rarely did the youth of the fifteenth century venture to ques- tion the authority of an el... ...h earnestness and animation of his counte- nance, gave an air of perpetual youth in spite of the scar of an arrow on the cheek which told of at least ... ...k to him in so friendly and winning a manner, that he easily drew from the youth the whole his- tory of his acquaintance with Sir James Stewart, of th... ... March, and placed both under the nominal charge of the Prince of Wales, a youth of a few years older. Unjust as was the detention, it had been far fr... ...r dimmed the purity and loftiness of his aim. That little band of princely youths, who sported, studied, laughed, sang, and schemed in the glades of W... ... throne of the other; and yet their affection had all the frank delight of youthful friendship. The younger lads were in more favour with their father... ...newed sojourn at Windsor which James ap- prehended, the training of such a youth as Malcolm of Glenuskie would be no small solace. By the time Malcolm...

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.... 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER IV ? ORDERED SOUTH .....

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.............................................. 4 CHAPTER II – CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ........................................................................ ... us talk it over between friends: even a few guesses may be of interest to youths and maidens. In all that concerns eating and drinking, company, cli-... ...their barbarian fathers, so man the individual is not alto- gether quit of youth, when he is already old and honoured, and Lord Chancellor of England.... ...know the end of that conveyance will be in the ditch. So, when I see a raw youth and a green girl, fluted and fiddled in a dancing mea- sure into that... ...– no, nor read of any, except Leonardo da Vinci, and perhaps Goethe in his youth. About women I entertain a somewhat different opinion; but there, I h... ...hild’s character, formed in early years or during the equinoctial gales of youth; to this he adheres, noting only the facts which suit with his precon... ...clement judge is the most successful pleader. CHAPTER II – CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH “Y ou know my mother now and then argues very no- tably; always very ... ...n accepted as final. All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age. It is held... ...l merchant in the character of Atys. But it is not a deity to cultivate in youth. If a man lives to any considerable age, it cannot be denied that he ...

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...eling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irksome on the way....

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...rney alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an in- fatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have fou... ...udgment upon himself. In the first place, not a single one of these gilded youths wore a swallow-tail coat. The few exceptions, one or two poor wretch... ... apothecary’s son, a regular shop-drudge,” he raged inwardly, watching the youth of the Faubourg Saint- Germain pass under his eyes; graceful, spruce,... ...ns were gloved, his own gloves were only fit for a policeman! Yonder was a youth toying with a cane exquisitely mounted; there, another with dainty go... ...lf how he might cross over, for he meant to be one of these delicate, slim youths of Paris, these young patri- cians who bowed before women divinely d... ...t was Mme. de Bargeton in comparison with this an- gel in all the glory of youth, and hope, and promise of the future, with that sweet smile of hers, ... ...rgeton had parted with their illusions concerning each other, the luckless youth, with a destiny not unlike Rousseau’s, went so far in his predecessor... ...y-two sous the quarter bottle becomes a bottle. Flicoteaux, that friend of youth, would beyond a doubt have amassed a colossal fortune but for a line ... ...well worth seeing. Every one at Flicoteaux’s is young; you see nothing but youth; and although earnest faces and grave, gloomy, anxious faces are not ...

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...e sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the p...

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...o address my- self, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to ho... ...ng them equally toilsome and precarious. There were, how- ever, found many youth of the country ardently attached to this sport, with all its dangers ... ...th which they pursued those rural sports. The more high-spirited among the youth were, about the time that our narrative begins, expecting, rather wit... ... a partner on the road. He slackened his pace, and was quickly joined by a youth well known to him, a gentleman of some fortune in that remote country... ...at of sullen malignant misanthropy. This remarkable Dwarf gazed on the two youths in silence, with a dogged and irritated look, until Earnscliff, will... ...l? You came—you know you came, to exult in the con- sciousness of your own youth, wealth, and beauty, by con- trasting them with age, poverty, and def... ...tches. Toys and merry-makings in childhood—love and 48 its absurdities in youth—spadille and basto in age, shall suc- ceed each other as objects of p... ...ative circumstances in which these gentlemen stood to each other. In early youth, Mr. Vere of Ellieslaw had been remarkable for a career of dissipatio...

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................................................................................................................................... 12 Anthem for Doomed Youth .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 The Send-off ...................................................

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........................................................ 12 Anthem for Doomed Youth ........................................................................ ...and iron, But where the lamb for this burnt-offering? Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps, And builded parapets and trenches there, And s... ...ers through the thickness of his curls. 13 Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous... ...sease. There was an artist silly for his face, For it was younger than his youth, last year. Now he is old; his back will never brace; He’s lost his c... ...will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age? When I do ask white Age, he sait...

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...y greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of that enchanting time come back to me. At the moment they were powerful enough; but they afterwards faded away....

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... But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of that enchanting time com... ... have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one’s youth. At all events, I have travelled too far, I have worked too hard, I h... ...enchantress?” repeated Stanmer, looking at me askance. He is a very simple youth, but who am I to blame him? “A charmer,” I said “a fascinatress!” He ... ...suspicion, and that you propose to do your best to rescue a simple- minded youth from her wiles. That would be more loyal.” And he began to laugh agai...

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... of state, My looser rimes (I wote) doth sharply wite, For praising loue, as I haue done of late, And magnifying louers deare debate; By which fraile youth is oft to follie led, Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, That better were in vertues discipled, Then with vaine poemes weeds to haue their fancies fed....

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... done of late, And magnifying louers deare debate; By which fraile youth is oft to follie led, Through false allurement of that pleasin... ...er new found mate. The Faerie Queene : Book IV. 12 Her mate he was a iollie youthfull knight, That bore great sway in armes and chiualrie, And was in... ...uoke new fight, Ne for light Ladies loue, that soone is lost. The hot spurre youth so scorning to be crost, Take then to you this Dame of mine (quoth ... ...n to all, That dread thereof, and his redoubted might Did all that youthly rout so much appall, That none of them durst vndertake the f... ...d her dayes, and lov’d in forests wyld to space. There on a day a noble youthly knight Seeking aduentures in the saluage wood, Did by g... ... There he continued in this carefull plight, Wretchedly wearing out his youthly yeares, Through wilfull penury consumed quight, That li... ...th now of dayes such temperance is rare And hard to finde, that heat of youthfull spright For ought will from his greedie pleasure spare: ... ...t, and mighty courage mollifide, Dame Venus sonne that tameth stubborne youth With iron bit, and maketh him abide, Till like a victor o...

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...ber the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some long legged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago; he will relish the pleasure, which should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to ident...

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...ld be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some long- legged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many year... ...ways think of as my home. And I have come so far; and the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me; and I see like a vision the youth of my father, a... ...gable ends, and smoking chimneys, and at the sight my heart swelled in my bosom. My youth, as I have told, was already inured to dangers; but such dan... ...lf to look after my repu- tation, and have been long enough alone with a sedooctive youth. And come back another day for your saxpence!” she cried aft... ...such considerations in that time of my peril and disgrace; and when I remembered my youth I was ashamed. I had my studies to complete: I had to be cal... ... 77 Catriona able to enjoy and to improve my fortunes, and devote some hours of my youth to courting Catriona, which would be surely a more suitable ... ...t offered.” He paused a bit. “And I warn you, you do not know yourself,” he added. “Youth is a hasty season; you will think better of all this before ... ...think better of all this before a year.” “Well, and I would like to be that kind of youth!” I cried. “I have seen too much of the other party in these...

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...ked without reservation of his personal dignity if he is asked in a fellow-creaturely way. He is a wide-open- eyed, ready, credulous, friendly, hasty youth, with his hair and clothes in reluctant transition from the untidy boy to the tidy doctor....

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...creaturely way. He is a wide- open-eyed, ready, credulous, friendly, hasty youth, with his hair and clothes in reluctant transition from the untidy bo... ...s out]. Sir Colenso Ridgeon is a man of fifty who has never shaken off his youth. He has the off-handed manner and the little audacities of address wh... ...ometimes shews you what the status of the profession was in England in his youth, and an occasional turn of speech, are Irish; but he has lived all hi...

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...itself, and shows how well nature can be imitated; but it is meant for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.?...

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...re girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.” “Oh, Rachel.” “Ah, ha! If Rachel be an old maid, what is Grace? Com... ...ly the widow’s dress and the presence of the great boys enhancing her soft youthfulness. The smile was certainly changed; it was graver, sadder, tende... ...pleasant glow still; hair with threads of grey. I hope she does not affect youth; she can’t be less than one or 42 The Clever Woman of the Family two... ...red nook of the coast.” “Quite a different zone from Avoncester,” said the youth. “Yes, delightful. I told you it was just what would suit you,” added... ...icers. Can this be the same?” “That’s one of your ideas, Grace. Look, this youth could have been hardly born when Fanny came to us. No; he is only one... ...t to patronizing, though evidently persuaded that Colin was a gay careless youth, with no harm in him, but needing to be looked after; and as to the C... ...letter from Gowanbrae had fallen like a thunderbolt on the bright hopes of youth. She looked back at some verses that she had written, when first perc... ...people obnoxiously sage to their fellow-creatures.” “Obnoxious sageness in youth is the token that there is stuff behind,” said Alick, with eagerness ... ...e Williams, to whom Rachel had taken, since a favourite com- panion of her youth had disappointed her by a foolish mar- riage. Bessie’s confidences ha...

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...............................34 Sean Ritterbeck ?Close to the Heart? .....................................................37 William Bush ?Symptoms of Youth? ......................................................39 Jennifer Zane ?Family Pride? ..................................................................43 Keith Bergstrom ?Dance of the Snake? .............................

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.................... Domestic Violence by Julie Pellegrini 25 .......................................................................................... Youth Violence by Brad Smith 27 ......................................................................................... The Stereotype by Joel Rivera 28 .........................................................................

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...t we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engines. The brother and sister were great friends in their youth, when he had his right arm to defend her reputation with; and she would have done anything on earth to please him....

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... Male Reader Is Requested to Bear in Mind What Wild Creature He Was in His Youth, While the Female Should Marvel Credulously IX. Concerning the Black ... ...nting military engines. The brother and sister were great friends in their youth, when he had his right arm to defend her reputa- tion with; and she w... ...ss Fanny in the British Isles. And thus are we stricken by the days of our youth. It is impossible to moralize conveniently when one is being hur- rie... ...d from rows of scree hurl away at a bound after one roll over, there sat a youth dusty and torn, nursing a bruised leg, not in the easiest of postures... ...s full stretch, determined to take her for a dream. He was of the class of youths who, in apprehension that their bright season may not be permanent, ... ...ght so bad, else he would have bawled after them had they gone by: far the youths of his description are fools only upon system,—however earnestly the... ...rother replied. He had no sympathy with nonsense, and naturally not with a youth who smelt of being a dreamy ro- mancer and had caused the name of Eng... ...ved the mountains was woven in her mind with her passing experience of the youth they had left behind them, until the two became one, a highly trans- ... ...ountain scenery made him very threat- ening to her brother. A silky haired youth, brown-eyed, un- conquerable in adversity, immensely rich, fond of so...

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..................................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEW...

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.......................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CA... ...n, whom my children never saw. When it pleased heaven, in the bloom of his youth, and after but a few months of a most happy union, to remove him from... ...ey, said as much, and that the men of that time were not like those of his youth:— ”Were your father, Madam,” he said, “to go into the woods, the Indi... ...vember 3, 1778. 11 Thackeray THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN ... ...hter was in favor, Lord Castlewood, who had spent in the Royal service his youth and fortune, did not retrieve the latter quite, and never cared to vi... ... is long forgiven, though they cast a shade of melancholy over the child’s youth, which will accompany him, no doubt, to the end of his days: as those... ...ike the new country of wandering AEneas, the fond names of the land of his youth. The Hall of Castlewood was built with two courts, whereof one only, ... ...as rather proud of it. ’Tis an error, surely, to talk of the simplicity of youth. I think no persons are more hypocritical, and have a more affected b... ...e, some people carry down with them into old age the actual bloom of their youthful love, and I know that Mr. Thomas Parr lived to be a hundred and si...

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...em by disdaining to produce proofs. They grew excited over it. There was a youthful private who listened with eager ears to the words of the tall sold... ...nd sticks made end-less threats to set ablaze the whole establishment. The youth was in a little trance of astonish-ment. So they were at last going t... ... long gone over the horizon and had disappeared forever. From his home his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own country with distrust. It ... ...ed. The regi- ment was fed and caressed at station after station until the youth had believed that he must be a hero. There was a lavish ex-penditure ... ...e by their gods that the guns had exploded without their permis- sion. The youth, on guard duty one night, conversed across the stream with one of the... ...his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance. The youth liked him personally. “Y ank,” the other had informed him, “yer a rig... ...n’ sech stomachs ain’t a-lastin’ long,” he was told. From the stories, the youth imagined the red, live bones sticking out through slits in the faded ... ...y. He saw that he would again be obliged to experi-ment as he had in early youth. He must accumu-late information of himself, and meanwhile he re-solv... ...r sharply. He began to stow various articles snugly into his knapsack. The youth, pausing in his nervous walk, looked down at the busy figure. “Going ...

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... that listened had heard him to an end, she shook her garments, crying, ‘O youth, son of my uncle, be com- forted! for, if it is as I think, the reade... ...line had 7 George Meredith been drawn, and saw that the footprints of the youth were traced along it. Lo, at that sight she clapped her hands joy- fu... ... it. Lo, at that sight she clapped her hands joy- fully, and ran up to the youth, and peered in his face, ex- claiming, ‘Great things indeed! and prai... ... an end of these prettinesses, she said, in a tone of soft insinuation, ‘O youth, nephew of the barber, look upon me.’ Shibli Bagarag knew her voice, ... ... him, and put one hand to her dress, and squatted beside him, and said, ‘O youth, thou hast been thwacked!’ He groaned, lifting not his face, nor sayi... ... saying aught. Then said she, ‘Art thou truly in search of great things, O youth?’ 13 George Meredith Still he groaned, answering no syllable. And sh... ...contin- ued, ‘’Tis surely in sweet friendliness I ask. Art thou not a fair youth, one to entice a damsel to perfect friendliness?’ Louder yet did he g... ... gain’d it blow and maim!” So be it with thee and thy thwacking, O foolish youth! Hide it from thyself, thou silly one! What! thou hast been thwacked,... ...r seat like a dusty worm, and said, ‘Dost thou find me charming, thou fair youth?’ He was nigh laughing in her face, but restrained himself to reply, ...