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The mysterious envelope and its contents, the wax and the seal all had come from his own dispensary! Deep in reflection, Stuart walked alone along the Embankment. Stuart fully recognized that the Commissioner had accorded him an opportunity to establish his reputation or to wreck it.
The Dutch envoy declaring that he would sooner throw himself into the Bosphorus than remain to be treated with less consideration than that accorded to the ministers of all great powers, the remonstrances of envious colleagues were hushed, and Haga was received with all due honours.
When we were alone I congratulated her on her high spirits, telling her that my sadness had fled before her gaiety, and that the hours I could spend with her would be all too short. "I should be blithe," said she, "if it were only to please you." "Then grant me the favour you accorded me yesterday evening."
From him descended the temporal sovereignty of Japan, which has ever since overbalanced the spiritual authority, although the first nominal rank is still accorded to the Mikado. In the year 1295, the existence of Japan was first announced to the Western world.
"With that gravid apprehension which creates in advance the very conditions one desires to combat, Ram Lal prepared himself for a series of events which made him shudder to contemplate. "It seemed to him that the salutes of the swarthy satellites of the prince were a degree less considerate. "He was convinced of a cynical estimation usually accorded to the destitute.
Amboyne descended the stairs, the landlady held a door ajar, and peeped at him, according to a custom of such delicate-minded females as can neither restrain their curiosity nor indulge it openly. Dr. Amboyne beckoned to her, and asked for a private interview. This was promptly accorded. "Would ten guineas be of any service to you, madam?" "Eh, dear, that it would, sir.
She put a spell on me, sure's you're a foot high. Lord, wouldn't I like to be able to manage her. I'd set her up with a faro-bank or a sweat-board, and she'd win all the money in the army in a month." "Yes, she's a terror," accorded Rosenbaum. "She made up her mind to marry me when I first come down here.
I made no answer; but quickening my pace I walked on silently and sullenly, till this most impetuous of men, snatching my hand, which he grasped with violence, besought me to forgive him with such earnestness of supplication, that, merely to escape his importunities, I was forced to speak, and in some measure to grant the pardon he requested; though it was accorded with a very ill grace: but, indeed, I knew not how to resist the humility of his intreaties: yet never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
"If one met a woman who was all man in mind, all woman in body, and all child in soul it is possible but where are these phoenixes to be discovered, my son? It is wiser not to dissatisfy oneself by thinking of them but just go on accepting that which is always accorded to the very rich! By the way, I saw Suzette la Blonde dining last night with old Solly Jesse Monsieur le Comte Jessé!
The king received him and graciously accorded a punishment. He was to suffer imprisonment for the space of one week his prison to be the grand residence of his father-in-law, the Hôtel de Noailles!
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