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And if we say now that I was wrong if we admit that that wasn't what I really wanted why then, God knows what it is I DO want. I'll be hanged if I do!" "Come back to the City," Semple told him. "That's where you belong." "No no!" Thorpe spoke with emphasis. "That's where you're all off. I don't belong in the City at all. I hate the whole outfit.
I'm only sorry for the mother you say you got your poor mother!" "Mrs. Neugass, this is outrageous! You haven't the right to speak to me like this! It was wrong, I admit, to to deceive you. But I had my reasons you wouldn't have taken me in. I'm not what what you think I am!" "I don't care what you are and what you ain't. I only want you to pack your bags and go."
"I'm glad we came," said I, helping José to pick up the things; "that bit of paper has removed a load from my mind. I thought my father might be right, but must admit I was rather doubtful." "I am in no doubt whatever," responded José. "Either the fellow was too sharp for us, or we made our venture at an unlucky time. If there was nothing wrong, why did he ride off so quickly?"
And he's worrying about the business, too. He's trying so hard to make good." "I will admit that he has stuck to his job more faithfully than anybody expected him to." Elizabeth turned slowly upon her friend, "You don't like Harold," she said; "why is it?" Harriet shook her head. "I do like him, Elizabeth, for your sake. I suppose the trouble is that I realize that he is not good enough for you.
They talk from the headquarters of one mind directly to the headquarters of another, instead of through a medium of cumbersome words which in our life are so often misunderstood. Thus we must admit that we have a ten-fold greater struggle than they to be perspicuous in language.
Every one, I hope, will admit that if the Emperor had really desired war, it is not before me he would have taken the trouble to express his desire for the conclusion of peace, as I heard him do several times; and this by no means falsifies what I have related of a reply given by his Majesty to the Prince of Neuchatel, since in this reply he attributes the necessity of war to the bad faith of his enemies.
"You would not have lost that belt?" Wisbech laughed. "No," he said, "I certainly would not. What I meant to suggest was that I am naturally more or less acquainted with Derrick Nasmyth's habits. In fact, I may admit I was a little astonished to hear he had contrived to accumulate those thirty dollars."
Carleton would come, to give her a more particular account of what he had done, and she wished unspeakably to hear it; but it was not possible that she should make an exception in his favour and admit him alone. That could not be.
They only who have confidence in human intelligence sincerely admit its right to freedom; and confidence in human intelligence is possible only in the midst of a political regimen which likewise gives the human community the guarantees whereof its interests and its lasting security have absolute need.
"It does you credit, I admit," replied the clergyman. "I suppose it were vain to ask for what purpose you have learned that out of a thousand things. There hardly seems to be a career in it, unless you could be permanently on the pavement to prevent old ladies getting into the wrong bus. Well, we must get out of this one, for this is our place. I want to show you what they call St. Paul's Penny."
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