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To these divisions were called from the foreign service diplomatic and consular officers possessing experience and knowledge gained by actual service in different parts of the world and thus familiar with political and commercial conditions in the regions concerned. The work was highly specialized.
Redford capable of discriminating between what is artistically fine and what is artistically ignoble? If not, he is certainly incapable of discriminating between what is morally fine and what is morally ignoble. It is useless for him to say that he is not concerned with art, but with morals. They cannot be dissevered, because it is really the art which makes the morality.
The Hindus think that it is possible and better for the soul to leave the vain show of the world and find peace in union with God. They are therefore not concerned to prove that the world is good, although they cannot explain why God allows it to exist.
They were almost dead to the world, which, had they known it, was busy enough just then with matters that concerned them and all other religious houses. At length one day, when Cicely and Emlyn were seated in the garden beneath a flowering hawthorn-tree for now June had come and with it warm weather of a sudden Sister Bridget hurried up saying that the Abbot of Blossholme desired their presence.
C , coming out of this storm of whispers smiling and flushed, "there is no great mystery in the bride. Indeed, so far as she was concerned, everything was rather common-place such people had been done up so often in romances that it was tiresome."
It concerned Isabel no more; she only had an impression that she should never again see Madame Merle. This impression carried her into the future, of which from time to time she had a mutilated glimpse. She saw herself, in the distant years, still in the attitude of a woman who had her life to live, and these intimations contradicted the spirit of the present hour.
With all my heart, so far as I am concerned." "Sisty," said Blanche, with an appalling solemnity on her face, "do you know what I've been thinking?" "Not I, miss what? Something very deep, I can see, very horrible, indeed, I fear; you look so serious."
The Colonel laid his hand upon her arm. "No!" he said, "that packet has been restored to its rightful owner." She rose to her feet, trembling with anger. The Colonel motioned her to resume her seat. "Come," he said, "so far as you are concerned, you have nothing to complain of. You offered, I believe, to give it up yourself on one condition." She looked at him with sudden eagerness.
"Well, I don't complain as far as the food's concerned; but there's a little too much for us two to do, and then it's so miserable to hear that woman crying nearly the whole time. I wonder if he ill-treats her; they say not." "I'm sure he doesn't," said Kalle. "Even if he wanted to as you can very well understand he might he dursn't. He's afraid of her, for she's possessed by a devil, you know."
I know that, so far as I was concerned, the success of a young contributor was as precious as if I had myself written his paper or poem, and I doubt if it gave him more pleasure. The editor is, in fact, a sort of second self for the contributor, equally eager that he should stand well with the public, and able to promote his triumphs without egotism and share them without vanity.
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