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One feels provoked as Jane Eyre stands before us for in the wonderful reality of her thoughts and descriptions, she seems accountable for all done in her name with principles you must approve in the main, and yet with language and manners that offend you in every particular.
At one instant he found it in the condition of his health. The day had been damp and dreary, and he had suffered from neuralgia. Doubtless the pain had acted upon his nervous system, and was accountable for his present and perpetually increasing anxiety. A little later he was fain to dismiss this supposition as untenable.
Pollio would have been saved if it had been possible. There was a strong sympathy in his favor. He was young, and scarcely accountable for his errors; he was also noble, the last of an ancient family. But the law was inexorable, and he suffered its penalty. Cinna, too, might have been overlooked. He was neither more nor less than a madman.
One wonders how he came to have a great passion again; and he must have had to marry in this way. Though Lush, his old chum, hints that he married this girl out of obstinacy. By George! it was a very accountable obstinacy. A man might make up his mind to marry her without the stimulus of contradiction. But he must have made himself a pretty large drain of money, eh?"
The crew of the Yungfrau and the conspirators or smugglers were soon on the best of terms, and as there was no one, to check the wasteful expenditure of stores and no one accountable, the liquor was hoisted up on the forecastle, and the night passed in carousing. "Well, he did love his dog, after all," said Jemmy Ducks. "And he's got his love with him," replied one of the smugglers.
We shall have the best charities supported generously and adequately, managed with scientific efficiency by the ablest men, who will gladly he held strictly accountable to the donors of the money, not only for the correct financing of the funds, but for the intelligent and effective use of every penny. To-day the whole machinery of benevolence is conducted upon more or less haphazard principles.
"But, sir," Barnabas ventured again, "surely the Prince himself is accountable for the prevailing fashion, and as you must know, he is said to be the First Gentleman in Europe and " "Fiddle-de-dee and the devil, sir! who says he is? A set of crawling sycophants, sir a gang of young reprobates and bullies. First Gentleman in I say pish, sir! I say bah!
Their responsibility, they said openly, was very great. The child's happiness, was wholly in their hands. They would be held accountable if she should form an unfortunate attachment for some ineligible young man who might chance to dine at their table. The responsibility, they repeated with emphasis, was truly enormous.
Cilicia is being administered and defended by its own prince, who bears the same name or title as his predecessor in the days of Sennacherib, but is feudally accountable to the Great King. His land is so far his private property that Cyrus, though would-be lord of all the empire, encourages the pillage of the rich provincial capital.
'But could I be held accountable for what I said? 'Accountable? ... Well, I hardly know what you mean. You were certainly not in the full possession of your senses. 'Then I could not be held accountable, I did not know what I was saying. 'I don't think you did exactly; people in a passion don't know what they say!
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