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Cyrus was satisfied; he, however, asked his grandfather if he would give him all those things which had been set before him, to dispose of as he thought proper; and on his grandfather's assenting, he began to call the various attendants up to the table, and to distribute the costly dishes to them, in return, as he said, for their various kindnesses to him.
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.
Loathing herself, and burning with hatred of the woman, in whose hands she felt powerless, Alma gave an assenting nod. 'I am sure it will be a measure of prudence, dear. I thought possibly you might be seeing him at Mrs. Carnaby's. He is there sometimes, I believe? Alma looked at the speaker, detecting some special significance in her inquiry. She replied that Redgrave of course called upon Mrs.
At first they were guarded in their talk, but after they had heard my agent and me conversing in English they dropped their reserve and I picked up many of their little confidences; no, I mean many of HER little confidences meaning the elder party for the young girl only listened, and gave assenting nods, but never said a word. How pretty she was, and how sweet she was! I wished she would speak.
Now let me say a word or two in his favor, notwithstanding, and also in favor of a plan which I had supposed was agreed upon, and which I dislike extremely to see abandoned. You have reasons against it, which you have stated. I have reasons for it, which I will state. But first answer me two or three simple questions, 'yes' or 'no, will you, dear?" And Laura assenting, she went on to ask if Mr.
Presently Francie said: "Do you know, I think Uncle Jolyon is terribly changed this last year. What do you think, Aunt Hester?" Aunt Hester made a little movement of recoil: "Oh, ask your Aunt Julia!" she said; "I know nothing about it." No one else was afraid of assenting, and James muttered gloomily at the floor: "He's not half the man he was."
Assenting cheerfully, Dowling conducted her to a pair of easy-chairs within a secluding grove of box-trees, and when they came to this retreat they found Mildred Palmer just departing, under escort of a well-favoured gentleman about thirty.
When he came, she spoke to him in Eskimo, and he, assenting to what she said, ran back again. "I tell Muky to come with dog-team, bring us home, you get tired by and by," she said thoughtfully, as we trudged on again over and through the snow. The woman wore a reindeer parkie, short skirt, and muckluks, and carried a gun on her shoulder.
"Why should anybody want to be released from such a soul-refreshing diversion as this? I've lost all track of time or sense, I just go on grinning and assenting to everything anybody says to me. I couldn't discuss the simplest subject with any intelligence whatever I've none left." "You don't need any. Decent manners and the grin will do. Had anything to eat yet?" "What's got to be eaten?"
If conscience must needs judge that to be profitable, which seemeth so to those that are set over us, then, sure, is power given to them for binding the conscience so straitly, that it may not judge otherwise than they judge, and force is placed in their bare authority for necessitating and constraining the assenting judgment of conscience. Sect. 10.
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