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For my part, I have no prejudice one way or the other. If there is evidence in favour of this view, I am burdened by no theoretical difficulties in the way of accepting it; but there must be evidence.
And did that poor girl the daughter of poverty the child of want whose home was a garret, and who was familiar with the chills of winter and the cravings of hunger, did she, while listening to the splendid promises of the rich man who knelt at her feet, for a moment waver in her pride of virtue, or even dream of accepting his brilliant offers?
He was not slow, therefore, in accepting the conditions. "Well," rejoined he, "you must consent to travel a few miles by night, and I think I can promise you a shot at the trumpeters perhaps several." "What say you, brothers?" asked Francois, appealing to Basil and Lucien; "shall we have the sport? Say yes." "Oh! I have no objection," said Lucien. "Nor I," added Basil.
What serene audacity it was on Sanguinetti's part to have dared to present himself in that house, and what strength of soul there must be on Boccanera's part, what empire over himself, to prevent all scandal by remaining silent and accepting the visit as a simple mark of esteem and affection! What could they be saying to one another, however?
Upon no account would he have taken any money, and for the matter of that the people who came to consult him were too poor to give him any, but one brought a dozen eggs, another a flitch of bacon, a third a jar of butter, or some fruit. He made no scruple about accepting these, and though the nobles in the towns ridiculed him, they were very wrong in doing so.
He remembered them now: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Only when he received Miss Rupert's amiably-worded refusal to become his wife was Jasper aware how firmly he had counted on her accepting him.
To continue the race means positive overhauling and doubtless death, while by accepting the chance that fortune has thrown in their way they may keep their enemies at bay until aid comes, for John has not forgotten the mission of Monsieur Constans. He calls a halt, and briefly explains his plans.
A result followed which all those best acquainted with Indians had predicted. They conceived that fear had prevented Bordeaux from accepting their gifts, and that they had nothing to apprehend from the vengeance of the whites. From terror they rose to the height of insolence and presumption.
As to our accepting his invitation, it is at Present very uncertain; Lady Lesley advises us to go without loss of time; Fitzgerald offers to escort us there, but Matilda has some doubts of the Propriety of such a scheme she owns it would be very agreable. I am certain she likes the Fellow.
It is on record that a leading lady novelist accepting her at her own estimate irritated by his polite but firm refusal to allow her entrance into his own editorial office without appointment, had once boxed his ears, under the impression that he was his own office-boy.
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