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It isn't my fault, and I don't see why you should pay no heed to me all at once. Will you attend to me, Mr. Keene? 'What do you wish me to do? he asked, only half turning. 'To go and see Mrs. Mutimer in the garden, and accept her invitation to dinner. 'I haven't got a dress-suit, he groaned. 'No matter. If you go away I'll never speak to you again, and you know you wouldn't like that.
"He won't accept payment, that's the worst of it," said Terry, "for we shall make the poor man, who is all alone, a good deal of bother. Still, I shall offer something for the charities of his Order, and he can't refuse that."
I am not asking you to accept this as any compensation for my abominable treatment of you the other day, but simply as a little token of my sincere desire to help on your good work in however small a way." The offering was at once and gratefully accepted.
He refused to accept the change to a lighter tone. "I understand this, Io; that you have begun unaccountably to mistrust me. That hurts." "I don't want to hurt you. I'd rather hurt myself; a thousand times rather. Oh, I will marry you, of course, when the time comes! And yet " "Yet?" "Isn't it strange, that deep-seated misgiving! I suppose it's my woman's dread of any change.
In short, she would be prepared in that case to accept the conviction that she was well rid of him. But all this was subcutaneous.
I replied, although I knew on whose account the kerchief was given; "you will be pleased to accept this in return." And I offered him one of my small revolvers a weapon that, at that time and in that place, was worth its weight in pearls.
Cumming directs most of his arguments against opinions that are either totally imaginary, or that belong to the past rather than to the present, while he entirely fails to meet the difficulties actually felt and urged by those who are unable to accept Revelation.
"Accept him?" repeated Kitty. "No!" "O dear!" again sighed Mrs. Ellison, feeling that this was scarcely better, and not daring to ask further. "I'm dreadfully perplexed, Fanny," said Kitty, after waiting for the questions which did not come, "and I wish you'd help me think." "I will, darling. But I don't know that I'll be of much use. I begin to think I'm not very good at thinking."
It was not long before his wife began to drop hints that I was hard to please, that she did far more than she could afford for me and that I was an ingrate. The upshot was that she "allowed" me to accept "days" from other families.
For the present let me beg of you, for your own sake as well as for her who is to be your wife, that you will not repudiate civility offered to you by her family. It will show a higher manliness in you to go among them, and accept among them the position which your wife's wealth and your own acquirements will give you, than to stand aloof moodily because they are aristocrats."
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