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The Arcadian plan had worked tolerably well, on the whole, for there was very little for any one to do, Mrs. Shelldrake and Perkins Brown excepted. Our conversation, however, lacked spirit and variety. We were, perhaps unconsciously, a little tired of hearing and assenting to the same sentiments.
'Indeed, Sir Robert, said his assenting brother in justice, 'I am entirely of your opinion; but, I don't know how it is, I have observed the Edinburgh gentlemen of the bar, and even the officers of the crown, pique themselves upon an indifferent administration of justice, without respect to rank and family; and I should fear 'How, sir, without respect to rank and family?
The young man, in other words, unconfusedly smiled though indeed as if assenting, from principle and habit, to more than he understood. He liked all signs that things were well, but he cared rather less WHY they were.
She said we must forget what had passed between us, and be the best of friends for the rest of our days, without a thought of any further amorous relations. I had not much difficulty in assenting to this condition.
That a man, from unwillingness to look at the truth concerning himself, might be but half-consciously assenting to the false appearance, would, he said, nowise serve to save him from whatever of doom was involved in this utterance of our Lord concerning the crime.
Willingly assenting to this, Heliobas read the extract over again, Alwyn taking down the words from his dictation. "Perhaps," he then added musingly, "perhaps it would be as well to copy a few passages from the Apocrypha also."
"I love Tito I wish to marry him, that we may both be your children and never part." Tito's hand met hers in a strong clasp for the first time, while she was speaking, but their eyes were fixed anxiously on her father. "Why should it not be?" said Bardo, as if arguing against any opposition to his assent, rather than assenting.
"She's one of the stickers, or I don't know one when I see it." A little assenting murmur went the rounds, and Claire glanced reproachfully at Priscilla, who had sided against her. "Two souls with but a single thought," represented Claire's ideal of friendship. That two people could love each other devotedly, and yet disagree on a variety of subjects, was beyond her comprehension.
It may be he has never had any difficulty with this particular point in piano playing, while the amateur has constantly to struggle with problems of time and rhythm. When the subject of using such a mechanical aid as the metronome to cultivate rhythmic sense, is broached to the executive artist, it does not always meet with an assenting response.
And he tried to shake off La Tribe's grasp. But the minister held him desperately. "Are you mad? Are you mad?" he answered. "What can we do against thirty? Let us be gone while we can. Let us be gone! Come." "Ay, come," Perrot cried, assenting reluctantly. He had taken no side hitherto. "The luck is against us! 'Tis no use to-night, man!" And he turned with an air of sullen resignation.
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