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Beresford was not wholly to be trusted. So, as it happened, Lady Dighton began to take a great deal of perfectly useless thought and care for Maurice's benefit, at the very time when he, all unconscious of her schemes, was beginning to consider it possible that he might confide to her the secret of his anxious and preoccupied thoughts. It happened that Mr.
"I think I may send James to Yale," observed his host, "I have a high idea of your college, Mr. Cameron." "Thank you. I think your son could hardly fail of deriving benefit from a residence at Yale." "James is my only child and I intend him to enjoy the greatest educational advantages. I should like to have him become a professional man."
Dick gave me a patronising and approving nod, and observed that, finding me so docile, he would communicate, for the benefit of my muse, a subject which he had studied with a view to his own art.
The so-called cells in which they were shut up in groups during the night were large chambers that once housed the colonial government. By day many of them work at weaving hats, baskets, brushes, and the like, to sell for their own benefit, thus being able to order food from outside and avoid the mess brought in barrels at two and seven of each afternoon for those dependent on government rations.
I asked. "What can be the benefit of it? How can the fact of our writing or not writing be of importance? Do you think I shall ever relinquish Lucia? I am resigned to wait as long as must be, but I am utterly determined to have her in the end." To which my father had answered grimly with a smile, "Very well, my dear Victor, see that you get her!"
When will the day come upon which I can prove my gratitude to him?" When a man speaks thus, the day has already come. Receive a benefit, embrace it, rejoice, not that you have received it, but that you have to owe it and return it; then you will never be in peril of the great sin of being rendered ungrateful by mischance.
We do not mean that Parliament should abandon its controlling power, or even delegate it altogether. We only wish that the initiative the question whether any particular project is likely to tend to the public benefit, and, if so, whether this is a fit and proper time to bring it forward should be discussed elsewhere.
And benefit for himself, even a small privilege, even the pressure of her hand, he not only shrank from the thought of winning,-he loathed the thought. He was too delicate over the idea of the married woman whom he fancied he loved in her maidenhood. Others might press her hand, lead her the dance: he simply wanted his release.
He was sitting in his bedroom, one leg over the arm of the chair, and Hirst was writing a letter opposite. Hirst was quick to point out that all the difficulties remained. "For instance, here are two women you've never seen. Suppose one of them suffers from mountain-sickness, as my sister does, and the other " "Oh, the women are for you," Hewet interrupted. "I asked them solely for your benefit.
"Well; bring me your plans," resumed Madame Desvarennes, after having reflected a moment. "Perchance you may have hit upon something." The mistress had been generous, and now the woman of business reasserted herself and she thought of reaping the benefit.
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