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Her mother is dead. These are a few of the facts volunteered within the limited space of his visit." "What's he like, dad?" "Like? Like an American." "Now, dad, don't allow your old British prejudices to run away with your judgment." "On the contrary, I am perfectly charmed.
I belong to a race, the sole end of whose existence is to give pleasure to others. None will deny the goodness of such an end, and I flatter myself most persons will allow that we amply fulfil it.
My comrade and I are two men and you, were you as stout as George-a-Green, can pass but for one; and two, you will allow, are more than a match for one. You mistake in your reckoning, my friend." "It is you who mistake," answered Nigel, who began to grow warm; "it is I who am three to two, sirrah I carry two men's lives at my girdle."
While, as we have seen, he does not take sides on moral issues, nor allow himself to be a special pleader for this or that view, his work strikes a moral balance in that it shows universal humanity not humanity tranced in metaphysics, or pathologic in analysis, or enmeshed in sensualism. In this sense, Balzac is a great realist.
Ship after ship came up, and went on to the northward, fast as her crippled state would allow, yet no sign of movement was seen in the Cæsar. Two sail had appeared in the south-eastern board, and they, too, approached and passed without bringing the vice-admiral even on deck.
I remembered the anguish of soul I passed through when I was under conviction, and the terrible distress I felt for others whom I had misled. "When our blessed Lord was speaking to the Jews, and warning them against their unbelief and its fearful consequences, He did not allow any 'charitable hopes' to hinder Him from speaking the whole truth.
"But I don't talk nonsense," he exclaimed, flushing with sudden energy, "I mean what I say. Do you suppose I can calmly allow that dear girl to sacrifice herself to a mere wreck, that cannot hope to be long a cumberer of the ground?"
It is rather a ridiculous business, I allow; yet you will smile at it tenderly, rather than scornfully, if you remember that it shows how closely linked we human creatures are, without knowing it, and that more hearts than we dream of enjoy our happiness and share our sorrow. Thus, I dine at great tables uninvited, and, unknown, converse with the famous beauties.
The people were in arms, and, with enormous uproar, protested that they would not allow Giovanni Bentivogli or his sons to go to Rome, lest they should be in danger once they had left their own State.
Do you suppose I am going to allow that sweet girl to be deceived?" This with mock indignation. "Oh, no; certainly not! Well, if I must, I must. First, then " "First, what position do you intend to take towards me?" "That depends upon yourself." "On conditions?" "On conditions." "Name them." "I am to be received as an honored guest whenever I shall choose to visit Oakley." "Well."
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