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If we judge from the frequency and inconvenience of an opposite course, we should say that the most important precept to be observed is, never to be afraid of your servants.
"Oh, it's no, no, Frank. He's to be dismissed from his regiment." "I was afraid so," cried Frank. "But to exchange into another. What regiment is he to go in?" Andrew was silent. "Well, go on! Why don't you speak?" cried Frank wildly. "I asked you what regiment he was to go in." "No regiment at all. He's dismissed from the King's service, and he is to leave the country.
But the sturdiest offender of your peace and of the neighborhood, if you rip up his claims, is as thin and timid as any, and the peace of society is often kept, because, as children say, one is afraid, and the other dares not. Far off, men swell, bully and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.
"Ah, when I said I was passing through I didn't mean that one would treat Rome as if it were Clapham Junction. To pass through Rome is to stop a week or two." "Say frankly that you mean to stay as long as I do!" His flushed smile, for a little, seemed to sound her. "You won't like that. You're afraid you'll see too much of me." "It doesn't matter what I like.
"Well," said Basil Ransom, "editors are a mean, timorous lot, always saying they want something original, but deadly afraid of it when it comes." "Is it for papers, magazines?"
As for Herbert, I'm afraid he'll turn out a prig." "Well, Mr. Fitzgerald, if you give me the right I shall use it." And getting up from her chair, and coming to him where he stood, she looked kindly into his face. It was a bonny, handsome face for a woman to gaze on, and there was much kindness in hers as she smiled on him.
It is also productive of much mischief to talk of mysteries, ghosts, and hobgoblins, before children, which many persons are too apt to do. Some deal so much in the marvellous, that I really believe they frighten many children out of their senses. I recollect, when I was a child, hearing such stories, till I have actually been afraid to look behind me.
I wonder he did not punish her you know that is burglary. 'Well, Lady Knollys, you know she is gone, and so I care no more about her that is, I mean, I need not fear her. 'No, my dear, but you must call me Monica do you mind I'm your cousin, and you call me Monica, unless you wish to vex me. No, of course, you need not be afraid of her. And she's gone.
Let me get behind you.... That's right. Now you are not touching the cliff. Let me get my shoulders firmly into the hollow at this end, and my feet fixed at the other. There! With my back rammed into it like this, nothing short of an earthquake could dislodge me. Now dear turn your back to me and your face to the sea and let yourself go. You will not fall over. Do not be afraid."
"Why, you've been brought up so much at home that I was afraid you'd prove rather too soft for the life you'll have to lead on board. However, I have no fear about that, whatever others may think.
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