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I do not hesitate to declare that the time is not far distant when this reserve, now so much admired in philosophers this happy medium so strongly recommended by professors of moral and political science will be regarded as the disgraceful feature of a science without principle, and as the seal of its reprobation.
I was ready to tell him everything, but he wouldn't hear me. It was honourable of him. I admired him for it; but it left me sharing something with you." She stared at him, as if he had insulted her in the street. "What can you mean? How could he want to hear from you what he knew already from me?" Urquhart went pale. Grey patches showed on his cheeks and spread like dry places in the sand.
The king loaded him with gifts, and gave him costly clothes and money for all his needs. A portrait of the infant Dauphin was begun at once, for which Andrea received three hundred golden pieces. Month after month passed happily by. Andrea painted many pictures, and each one was more admired than the last. But his dream of happiness did not last long.
In view of what the landlady told us, I think we are safe in assuming that Henley admired her, and that she was aware of the fact. The second point is Watson's defense of the men who had been in prison, his hobby, as his wife called it. We will come back to both these points in a moment. Let us consider the dead man first.
Betwixt them such a thing as concealment could not be. The difference in their present position was a thing to laugh at. Sir Duncan looked up to Bart as being the maker of his character, and Bart admired Sir Duncan as a newer and wiser edition of himself.
They cheered the bride and bridegroom as they passed; Gaud returned their greeting, bowing slightly like a town lady, with serious grace; and all along the way she was greatly admired.
I trusted you, I admired you, for your ability, for your faculty of getting on with men. At that time you were wise enough not to attempt to pass comment upon accidents in business affairs which are, if deplorable, inevitable." Eldon Parr's voice gave a momentary sign of breaking. "I will be frank with you. My son's death has led me, perhaps weakly, to make one more appeal.
I was born with the tastes of a lady, and he gratified them in other words, he admired me, and he made me presents. No woman can resist admiration and presents especially presents, provided they happen to be just the thing she wants. He was sharp enough to know that most men are. Naturally he wanted something in return all men do. And what do you think was the something? The merest trifle.
I have already seen him, and expostulated in vain; till then, though I knew your nephew admired Madame di Negra, I could never suppose he harboured a serious intention." EGERTON. "I must believe you, Randal. I will myself see Madame di Negra, though I have no power, and no right, to dictate to her. I have but little time for all such private business.
Intellectually they admired, and would not belie their admiration; but they did not give their hearts cordially, they did not abandon themselves to their natural impulses. They averted their eyes and weaned their attention from the dazzling object.
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