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It was said that Richard proposed this plan, and that both Saladin and Saphadin evinced a willingness to accede to it, but that it was defeated by the influence of the priests on both sides.
Kennedy with the failure of his efforts, at the same expressing his sincere regret. "Then I shall try to return to England," said the old gentleman, with a sigh. "Please ask the Prince if he has any objection to my making my way by the shortest road to Karachi? Perhaps he will let me have a passport for this route." Prince Tchajawadse was quite ready to accede to this request.
Darwin's career or the requirements of a work of art, no site could be so appropriate as this great hall, and they applied to the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to erect it in its present position. That permission was most cordially granted, and I am desired to tender the best thanks of the Committee to the Trustees for their willingness to accede to our wishes.
"To refuse her request would be at once to mortify and aggrieve her; to accede to it and give her the fifty dollars she asked a sum by the way I could not well spare would be to encourage an action easily pardoned once, but which if repeated would lead to unpleasant complications, to say the least.
"It's the most lovely day, and I should like so much to show you New York, as you showed me your beautiful Harvard," Basil Ransom went on, pressing her to accede to his proposal. "You said that was the only thing you could do for me then, and so this is the only thing I can do for you here.
There was no need that he should accede to that silly request, he told himself. He had only to look for a youth of perhaps eighteen years, who would be alone, a little frightened, possibly, and who would have a pink in his buttonhole, and probably a dog on a leash. As he waited, the man was conscious of a curious warmth at his heart.
He must be highly moral, should care for the poor for God's sake, see that he makes himself well paid by the rich, should comfort his patients by pleasant discourse, and should always accede to their requests if these do not interfere with the cure of the disease."
Austria's demand for a "bill of particulars" was aptly expressed in this hostile view of the American note. The United States declined to accede to the request, which was viewed as a resort to the evasive methods practiced by Germany, but rested its case on the Austrian admiralty's self-condemning admission that the Ancona was sunk while people were still on board her.
"The patriot Boccari," repeated the impassible secretary. "Tell Duplessis to send an order for five-and-twenty louis to Fra Paolo. Make a note of it." "Let Hausman get hold of this man if his claims are reasonable, accede to them and learn if the girl has any relations in Paris."
Orme had first proposed to accompany Lady Mason to the court and to sit by her side during the whole trial, he had been much startled. He had been startled, and for a time had been very unwilling to accede to such a step.
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