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"Asako, do you mean this?" The big man's voice was harsh with grief. "Do you mean that I am to go without you?" Asako still showed no sign of comprehension. "Answer me, my darling; do you want me to go?" Her head moved in assent, and her lips answered "Yes."
We took it from him because, first, he made an outrageous attack upon us; secondly, he is plotting to set all the Indian tribes upon us in Kentucky, aided with Spanish soldiers and Spanish guns, and, thirdly, he hopes to become Governor General of Louisiana, and commit Spain to an alliance with England in the war upon the Americans." Henry spoke boldly and earnestly, and the others nodded assent.
You see, somebody killed old David. That's certain, isn't it?" Mr. Westcote nodded his assent. "Well, if you knew for sure that somebody had tried to but a short time before, it would make you rather suspicious of that somebody, wouldn't it?" "I should say so!" Mr. Westcote exclaimed. "But do you know of any one who made the attempt, Dobbins?"
Something must be done. And the people shouted their assent, and felt themselves the electors of the Twenty. This kind of "parliament" was a very old Florentine fashion, by which the will of the few was made to seem the choice of the many.
She was about to assent and to seal her doom when she suddenly remembered that all her best clothes were in her mother's closet, which was larger than hers, and that she could not get them without passing through the room where her parents were asleep. That ended the discussion. It was out of the question that she should marry this magnificent stranger in her every-day dress and cotton stockings.
This being undeniable, the fair Martha for that was the name of the Twexby heiress without waiting for any assent, walking into the back parlour, read the letter to her father, and waited instructions, for she always referred to Simon as the head of the house, though as a matter of fact she never did what she was told save when it tallied with her own wishes.
He always says that he oughtn't to be made to do an elder brother's work." "Then I may tell mamma?" His lordship again rubbed his head, but did it this time in a manner that was conceived to signify assent. The lady pressed his arm gently, and the visit to Trafford, as far as she was concerned, was supposed to have been a success.
They answered with a pealing cry, terrible as the cry of the lion in the hush of night, but a shout that had in it assent, triumph, fealty, victory, even as they obeyed him and drew up to die, while in their front was the young brow of Petit Picpon turned upward to the glare of the skies.
I could bear an England which "went dry," but an England which "went out" ! So before assenting to the right of a Government to rob the working-man of his beer, I have to ask myself if I assent to its right to rob me of my pipe. But I might feel that I should be happier without England. Just a little way without the Isle of Man, say.
Charles himself gave his royal assent because he was afraid to stem the torrent of popular infatuation. And the English nation permitted one hundred and thirty years to elapse before the civil disabilities of the Catholics were removed, and then only by the most strenuous exertions of such a statesman as Sir Robert Peel.
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