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I have always observed, when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within himself, whether to take it, or let it alone: a Frenchman never is: Mons. Dessein made me a bow. C'est bien vrai, said he.
She well knew who better? her brother's changed course of life, but neither encouragement nor compliment were in her line. Why should a man be praised for living a respectable life?
Jack had plenty of courage, but he did not like being fired at without the means of returning the compliment. Another shot from the boat came whistling close to them. "It's of no use," cried Jack, "we must lower the sail."
The American consul, a new appointee, addressed the customs clerk in his only tongue, Iowan, and received no response. I spoke to him in French, and the préposé replied in mixed French and English, out of compliment to me. The consul was enraged, considering himself and the American eagle affronted.
His hotel was in the opposite direction, and if he accompanied her his letters would be late for the post. She implored him not to come, but he was obdurate. "A nice beginning, if your aunt saw you slip in alone!" "But I always do go about alone. Considering I've walked over the Apennines, it's common sense. You will make me so angry. I don't the least take it as a compliment."
He was simply furious, and threatened to put us all in irons, the commandant included; which, by the way, was absurd." "It was paying me a very high compliment." "Don't be puffed up, or imagine the general was afraid of you," laughed Santiago. "Oh!" I exclaimed, affecting to feel disappointed, "that alters the case. But why should he be angry at my escape?"
It was a high but merited compliment to the talents of Melancton Smith, that such a man as Colonel Hamilton should have wished aid in opposing him. During the winter of 1791-92, being Colonel Burr's first session in the Senate of the United States, he spent much of his leisure time in the state department.
"Well, you will have enough of us," is the rejoinder. "Though I shall try to make no trouble. A book and a sofa satisfy me." "Were you always ill? And you must have been pretty! You would be pretty now if you had some color and clearness, such as exercise would give you." Gertrude is comforted by the naive compliment. No one ever praises her now.
Yet he did not fail in a decent show of respect; perhaps because he did feel some sympathy for the witness's unhappy father and brother. "You then acknowledge the victim to have been your wife?" "I do." "It is a point gained, and I compliment the jury upon it. We can now proceed to settle, if possible, the identity of the person who accompanied Mrs. Van Burnam into your father's house."
Though I so far deserve your compliment, miss, that should be foolish enough, if she were but well, to give my consent to-morrow, because I could not help it; yet one can't live forty-six years in this world without seeing it is wrong to marry without a reasonable dependence and there won't be much among eleven of you.
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