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"That doesn't make them any less unpleasant. I should have thought the very least Mr. Waddington could do " "Would be to pay you compensation?" "There can be no compensation in a case of this sort, Miss Madden. I'm not talking about compensation. Mr. Waddington must realize that he cannot compromise me without compromising himself." "I should think he would realize it, you know."
"Yes, badly enough." "And you can ask for it without compromising yourself?" "I can try, at any rate." "Try, then." "Well, this is how it stands: I told you to-day that I had done my best to find Anne Catherick, and failed." "Yes, you did." "Fosco! I'm a lost man if I DON'T find her." "Ha! Is it so serious as that?"
What was the ecstasy of that, however, but in itself a trifle compromising? as truly, within the week, Maggie had occasion to suspect her friend of beginning, and rather abruptly, to remember.
After these, the indulgent who are disposed to exercise some discernment or moderation in terrorism, Camille Desmoulins, Danton and their adherents; and lastly, many others who are more or less doubtful, compromised or compromising, wearied or eccentric, from Maillard to Chaumette, from Antonelle to Chabot, from Westermann to Clootz.
"What would you have me do?" said Louis; "how can I interfere without compromising the reputation of madame d'Egmont?" "Allow me to say," replied I, "that this fear ought not to prevent your majesty's interference.
The officer was at first rather uneasy, but became reassured on seeing what sort of men he had to deal with. He gave, without having any fear of compromising himself, all the details imaginable of the resignation and departure of D'Artagnan. He explained how, after that departure, the new leader of the expedition had ordered a surprise upon Belle-Isle. There his explanations stopped.
I fancied that the correspondence might be a mere artifice of Lawrence's to find out who had given me the tools, and what I had done with them. To satisfy him without compromising myself I told him that I had made the hole with a strong knife in my possession, which I had placed on the window-ledge in the passage.
The place is virtually under martial law at all times, and in dealing with the class of humanity which naturally congregates here, this system has special advantages. There is no compounding of felony, no compromising with crime. If the laws are outraged, the offender knows he will be instantly arrested and punished, without any fear of popular sympathy.
What now was the disposition and what the means of the Provinces to do their part in the contest? If the twain as Holland wished, had become of one flesh, would England have been the loser? Was it quite sure that Elizabeth had she even accepted the less compromising title which she refused would not have been quite as much the protected as the "protectress?"
"Well," said Henri, "in proposing to do so she mentioned my discreet age, which appeared to her to make the thing all right! If I had declined her invitation, I should have seemed to pose as a compromising person! That is the reason why I accepted." "You did quite right. What do you really think of her?"
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