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It's the fact that he chooses to live here and slave and work that I think's uncommon so quaint. But he'll give it up he's bound to give it up after a time. You can't wash out what's in the blood. Do you think you can? He'll drop the Bohemian one day it's merely a phase. I'm only just waiting, you know, to give the dinner on his coming out."
Yet it is not his language, Aeschines, that deserves our esteem in an orator, nor the pitch of his voice, but his choice of the aims which the people chooses, his hatred or love of those whom his country loves or hates.
Besides, we have said all we had to say. You haven't your lease, but you've got your twenty five thousand francs in full, and those of Dutocq are ready for him whenever he chooses to come to my office. I see nothing now to prevent me from going where my private business calls me, and I therefore very cordially bid you good-bye." "Ah ca!
Channing: "The greatest man," says he, "is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptation from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering; and is this a greatness which is apt to make a show, or which is most likely to abound in conspicuous stations?
'It 's the style I like best: no perpetual personal thankings and allusions to the trouble he gives! Jane exclaimed. 'He shows perfect good sense, and I like that in all things, as you know. A red-haired young woman chooses to wait on him and bring him flowers he's brother to Patrick in his love of wild flowers, at all events! and he takes it naturally and simply.
Manuela chooses to run the risk. I will not turn aside from my duty. If you choose to join us, the girl will be safer at least until we cross the mountains. On the other side I shall be joined by friends, if need be." Pedro ceased, and rekindled his cigarette, which had gone out during the explanation. "I will go with you," said Lawrence, with decision, as he extended his hand.
"May I?" he repeated, turning to Madeline. She hesitated. "Why why yes, you may, if you care for it," she said. "That particular one is Jane's, anyway, and if she chooses to give it away I don't see how I can prevent her. But why you should want the old thing I can't conceive. I look as stiff and wooden as a sign-post." Jane held up a protesting finger. "Fibs, fibs, fibs," she observed.
He naturally assumed the manner possible only to the true gentleman who, though wronged, chooses not to show his feelings save by a grave, quiet dignity. In view of their action and manner, he consciously felt himself their superior; and this impression, like an atmosphere, was felt by them also.
For from the very moment he was born, he did exactly as he pleased, and nothing else, being as capricious as the breeze that blows only as it chooses.
She is almost a child herself, and the little pink round things will hang about her like florets round the central flower; and the husband will look on, smiling benignly, able, whenever he chooses, to withdraw into the sanctuary of his wisdom, towards which his sweet wife will look reverently, and never lift the curtain.
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