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I compliment you on your skill, but I confess I am at a loss to understand why you should, as if by right, expect me to remain here to serve continuously as a target for the arrows of your scorn." John walked out of the room. During dinner mother and son spoke very little, and he retired early, about ten o'clock, to his room.

The King gave large bounties to the crew, as a token of his satisfaction. The prince was on board his first vessel, when the Earl of Oxford, and the Colonel, afterwards the Duke of Marlborough, despatched by the King of England, came to pay him a visit of compliment on behalf of that sovereign.

Now I have such confidence in my daughter's obedience that on the one condition that you do not seek to prejudice her against me I do not absolutely forbid your seeing Miss Carrington on occasion but you must write no letters, and you may take it as a compliment that I should tell you I have acted only as seemed best in her interest.

"Paganini Joachim Sarasate any one, it is good enough," was the half-abstracted reply. "It is good enough for you almost, eh?" Ingolby meant his question as a compliment, but an evil look shot into the Romany's face, and the bow twitched in his hand. He was not Paganini or Sarasate, but that was no reason why he should be insulted.

The English seamen sprang up to return the compliment, when Captain Oughton roared out, "To your guns, you fools! Hard down with the helm fly the jib-sheet check headbraces look out now, my lads." The corvette had already put her helm up and paid off to pass under the stern of the Windsor Castle, with the intention of raking her.

Crayme, and the only reason that I can see is, their husbands drink." "I guess you're right, Ettie," said Fred. "They didn't begin their domestic tyranny in advance, as you did bless you for it." "But why don't their husbands stop?" asked Esther, too deeply interested in her subject to notice her husband's compliment. "They must see what they're doing, and how cruel it all is."

"Good character is often better than good fortune." The wife returned the husband's compliment; but we must pass over such unfashionable conversation, and proceed with our story. The reader may recollect our mentioning a little boy, who carried a message from Wright to Miss Banks the day that he called upon her, on his return from York.

There was the same subtle compliment implied, that the dog and the child considered him a man desirable to be followed, a man to be trusted by such helplessness and ignorance and loving admiration. Carroll asked no more questions, but walked up the street with the boy clinging to his hand. He thought of Eddy, but the touch of this child was very different; the hand was softer, not so nervous.

She dashed her hand over her eyes angrily, and stood silent for a moment, trying to control her quivering chin before she went into the house. The young man touched her shoulder with reverent fingers. "Betty," he said in a rather unsteady voice, "its true, all that bally-rot about women being better than men. You are!" With which very modern compliment, he turned and left her.

They paid him the same affectionate compliment, and after the barge had left them, returned in the same solemn manner to the place where they had assembled. Marshall's description, simple but not commonplace, reminds one of Ville-Hardouin's pictures, so terse, so rich in color, of the Barons of France in the Fifth Crusade.