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"Now!" she said, under her breath. She turned the handle of the door and walked in. Despite the ringing of the bells actuated by the opening door, no one came to meet her. The shop seemed to be empty. However, at the extreme end there was a room at the back of the shop and after that another, both crammed with furniture and knick-knacks, many of which looked very valuable.
Are you here? In defiance of pestilence, are you actuated by some demon to haunt me, like the ghost of my offences, and cover me with shame? What have I to do with that dauntless yet guiltless front? With that foolishly-confiding and obsequious, yet erect and unconquerable, spirit? Is there no means of evading your pursuit?
Mavis looked at Miss Toombs wide-eyed. "Does the fact of people agreeing to think it wrong make it really wrong?" asked Miss Toombs, to add, "especially when the thinking what you call 'doing wrong' is actuated by selfish motives." "How can morality possibly be selfish?" inquired Mavis. "It's never anything else.
Although I was far from despising the property which I was now likely to lose, yet I was more actuated in my wish to regain it by my enmity towards him, and I immediately resolved upon what I would do.
He seemed master of a situation in which his terms must be accepted. Yet he might have been actuated by a cowboy motive beyond the power of Helen to divine. "Bo Rayner," drawled Las Vegas, "thet blue mustang will be yours, an' you can ride him when you're MRS. TOM CARMICHAEL!" Never had he spoken a softer, more drawling speech, nor gazed at Bo more mildly. Roy seemed thunderstruck.
It was a terrible time for Monsieur de Villefort, who saw himself obliged, in his official capacity, to investigate his own household. After long observation, he had a terrible suspicion, which was confirmed by a hundred little things, that his own wife was the four-times murderess! The reasons which actuated her to commit these terrible crimes were very clear.
Hedge was an exceedingly amorous old gentleman; and that in taking Julia to his matrimonial embrace, he was partially actuated by the promptings of the flesh.
Never was there so great a madness as the people generally were seized with." But in restoring Bacon to the Council Berkeley was no doubt actuated as much by policy as by fear, for it was better to have him there where he could keep his eye on him than in the House of Burgesses where he might attempt to carry through reform legislation.
Vagrancy laws enabled the magistrates to set unemployed blacks at work under arrangements that amounted almost to peonage. It is now evident that the South was actuated by what it considered the necessities of its situation and not merely by a spirit of defiance. Yet the fear on the part of the North that slavery was being restored under a disguise was not unnatural.
There is even more irony than Major Swan supposes in a situation which himself has called ironical. "So much, then, for the motives that are alleged to have actuated me. I hope you will conclude that I have answered the prosecution upon that matter. "Coming to the question of fact, I cannot find that there is anything to answer, for nothing has been proved against me.