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Count Cobentzel very much wished me to make the acquaintance of a woman whose cleverness and beauty I had often heard vaunted the Princess Dolgoruki. I received an invitation from her to dine at Alexandrovski, where she had a country house, and the Count came for me to take me there with my daughter.
I did not ask for place or position, and was entirely without influence or the acquaintance of persons of influence, but was resolved to perform my part in a struggle threatening the very existence of the nation. I performed a conscientious duty, without asking promotion or command, and without a revengeful feeling toward any section or individual.
Always, as soon as this word had come to him, old Hoff went out. Could they be, she wondered, passwords by which he gained access somewhere to government buildings or places where munitions were being made or shipped? Meanwhile her acquaintance with Frederic Hoff had been progressing rapidly.
Thank God, that can never be!" "Oh, no! Brewers is brewers, and must be. There's Mr. Joe He's very well, no doubt." "I haven't the pleasure of his acquaintance." "Him as is to marry Miss Molly. But Miss Molly ain't the head of the family; is she, sir?" Here the squire shook his head. "You're the head of the family, sir." "I suppose so." "And is I might make so bold as to speak?" "Go on, Matthew."
She consulted her father, but he seemed to be quite indifferent, merely reminding her that though he would be ready to do everything handsomely for her wedding, she would have no fortune till after his death. She consulted her glass, and told herself that, without self-praise, she must regard herself as the most beautiful woman of her own acquaintance.
"I believe my daughter did make Victoria's acquaintance, Mrs. Portheris," said she, "and we were all very pleased about it. Your Queen has a very good reputation in our country. We think her a wise sovereign and a perfect lady. I suppose you often go to her Drawing Rooms." Mrs. Portheris wore the expression of one passing through the Stone Age to a somewhat more mobile period.
Carlyle's inferences and deductions in that lecture, yet that I am convinced, from my own acquaintance with the original facts and documents, that the picture there drawn of Mohammed is a true and a just description of a much-calumniated man. Now, what was the strength of Islam? The common answer is, fanaticism and enthusiasm.
The author, however, appears to have assumed and, writing for Russians, was entitled to assume that his readers had some previous acquaintance with the history of the country and the times to which his story belongs.
By mistake, I went by the Express train, and so was thrown into the society of a lady whose position would have rendered any acquaintance with her impossible, excepting under such chance-conditions as the present; and whose history, as I learned it afterwards, led me to reflect much on the difference between the reality and the seeming of life. She moved my envy.
That's what I am trying to work out. Only I don't know which I love more. Dick I have known a long time. You... you are a " "Recent acquaintance," he broke in, returning to her with the same angry stride. "Not that, no, not that, Evan. You have made a revelation to me of myself. I love you as much as Dick. I love you more. I I don't know."
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