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"If I could only persuade you, Johnnie, of the importance of little things, of putting one's best foot forward ... of personal appearance ... why create an initial prejudice in the minds of people you meet, that you'll afterward have to waste valuable time in trying to remove?" "Where are you putting up, Ally?" "Keep in touch with me," was Merton's stock phrase.... "Mr.
Hurrah, Sarah, here's good luck to the boy and speedy promotion!" "'Oo-ray, Say-rah!" screamed `Ally Sloper, the cockatoo, in cordial appreciation, apparently, of this sentiment. "'Ip, 'ip, 'oo-ray!" That settled the matter.
I've been a soldier too long to permit my chief of staff to be disabled. Pardon me, doctor, but it seems to me that this is more of a case for nursing and nourishment than for drugs." "You are right, and yet a drug can also become a useful ally. In my opinion, it is more a case for change than anything else. When Mrs.
But circumstances, over which I had no control, prevented my doing so. My offer of help is tardy, I know, but it is none the less sincere." "Thank you," replied Eve, conscious of a feeling of pleasant reliance in this new-found ally. "But I have good friends the Padre Fortis, my uncle, and a friend of ours, Mr. FitzHenry." "Of the Kittiwake at Mahon?" "Yes." "I have the pleasure of knowing Mr.
Warned by the Indians that Hewes had seized the Plymouth fishing-stage, and seeing the Little James entering the bay, Conant hastened to collect his friends and present himself upon the scene of action to act as mediator, or ally of Plymouth, as circumstances might direct.
"But you can not compel me," she replied, firmly, "to change my mind as to what is seemly," and the courage which failed her if she met a spider, but which stood by her in serious danger as a faithful ally, made her perfectly steadfast as she eagerly added: "Not an hour since you promised me that so long as I remained with you I should need no other protector, and might count on your gratitude.
Uaphris, upon this, learning the danger of his ally, marched out of Egypt to his relief; and the Babylonian army, receiving intelligence of his approach, raised the siege and proceeded in quest of their new enemy.
The staff of Caesar the elite of the democracy of the capital contained, along with not a few useless young men of rank, some able officers, such as Publius Crassus the younger son of the old political ally of Caesar, and Titus Labienus, who followed the chief of the democracy as a faithful adjutant from the Forum to the battle-field.
The meeting between them was costly and did not result as Francis had anticipated, since Charles V had been recently winning a new ally in the person of Cardinal Wolsey, the chief adviser of the young King of England. Wolsey was ambitious and longed for the supreme honour of the Catholic Church. He believed that he might possibly attain this through the nephew of Catherine of Aragon.
As the Russian armies had just suffered disastrous defeats at the hands of the Japanese, France could not count on aid from her ally and the Kaiser did not believe that the recently formed Entente was strong enough to enable her to count on English support.
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