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From those carpets one may realise what the English Government's acquiescence in the subjection of Persia really involves. No subject race can entirely escape this degradation. No matter how good the government may be or how protective, all forms of subjection involve a certain loss of manhood. Under an alien Power the nature of the subject nationality becomes soft and dependent.
She seemed pleased at my acquiescence, and told Kitty to stay with her aunt Phoebe a few minutes. 'I have baked a nice hot cake with currants in it, Kitty, she said persuasively, 'and you shall have your share, hot and buttered, if you will be patient and wait a little.
Very soon after inditing these last epistles to the Provinces, the Queen became more reasonable on the subject; and an elaborate communication was soon received by the state-council, in which the royal acquiescence was signified to the latest propositions of the States.
Yet the Countess had scarcely given him a glance; she saw none of the various perfections, human and equine, commended to her notice, and fell back again in the carriage, with a slight movement of the eyelids intended to express her acquiescence in her husband's views. The Colonel fell asleep again, and both husband and wife reached Tours without another word.
The statement was awaited in India with an expectancy that with time became impatience, and it was received in India and that, after all, is the point to which I looked with the most anxiety with intense interest and attention and various degrees of approval, from warm enthusiasm to cool assent and acquiescence.
Brett promptly cleared the situation by explaining to Sir Hubert, in a few words, the reason for his unexpected presence, and when the Major-General learnt the name of the distinguished personage who had sent Lord Fairholme to the barrister he expressed a ready acquiescence in the desire to utilise his services. Nor was the effect of such a notable introduction lost on Mr.
One favour you will let me give the order to fire, will you not?" The general signed acquiescence: just then the registrar came in with the king's sentence in his hand. Murat guessed what it was. "Read, sir," he said coldly; "I am listening." The registrar obeyed. Murat was right. The sentence of death had been carried with only one dissentient voice.
Now, so much capital is represented by the existing type of railways, and they have so firm an establishment in the acquiescence of men, that it is very doubtful if the railways will ever attempt any very fundamental change in the direction of greater speed or facility, unless they are first exposed to the pressure of our second alternative, competition, and we may very well go on to inquire how long will it be before that second alternative comes into operation if ever it is to do so.
His subsequent assumption of listless resignation, of pacific acquiescence in the dictates of his destiny, was purely deceptive thin ice of despair over profound depths of exasperated rebellion. Blank darkness enveloped him when first he opened eyes to wonder.
To escape his mother's silent anguish of interrogation he stood up and said: "I'll see Mr. Spragg of course it's a mistake." But as he spoke he retravelled the hateful months during the divorce proceedings, remembering his incomprehensible lassitude, his acquiescence in his family's determination to ignore the whole episode, and his gradual lapse into the same state of apathy.
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