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After having confronted it in the Chambers with all the opposition which that theatre permitted, he encouraged, without, every plot and effort of subversion; less ready than M. de La Fayette to place himself at their head, less confident in their success, but still determined to keep alive by these means hatred and war against the Restoration, watching at the same time for a favourable opportunity of launching a decisive blow.
Etienne picked out as a good hiding-place for any villany there is going." "You needn't be so sure that a special election or any other kind would carry us in," laughed Mr. Preston. "I'm not so confident as you seem, Percival, that this community is overwhelmed with the consciousness of its rare opportunity." And so the talk drifted on, as usual, to politics.
"Ben Bullock and I," said he, "were confident against the world in arms did you never see his ode to me beginning with 'Fair blooming youth'? We were sworn brothers, admired and praised, and quoted each other, sir.
One whose "if I can" is more than another's assurance; and his doubtful tale before some men's protestations: that is confident of nothing in futurity, yet his conjectures oft true prophecies: that makes a pause still betwixt his ear and belief, and is not too hasty to say after others.
If the beast lays hands on me he he pays the price. I could not do otherwise. Geoffry Carlyle I am a Fairfax." Satisfied with my mission, and confident nothing more need be said, I arose to my feet. "Then we can do nothing further, until I learn the disposition of the crew," I said quietly. "Estada is not likely to resort to extreme measures at present.
Others, with bright and confident faces, waited quietly for the lesson to begin. No one that I could see was as badly off as I. Every one knew something. I knew nothing. Just at the last moment I found the place in the "crib" and in the Caesar at the same time, but scarcely had I done so when the awful voice of the master spoke: "Stand up!"
It was too early yet for any but roustabouts, marketers, and church-goers; so early that even the river was still partly mist-covered; only in places could the swift, dark current be seen rolling swiftly along. "Captain!" A hand plucked at his elbow, as if not confident that the mere calling would secure attention. The captain turned.
He had now given them fair notice that, if they should, at the hazard of their lands and lives, succeed in restoring him, all that he had to give would be given to those who had deposed him. They too, when they read his letters, knew, what he did not know when the letters were written, that he had been duped by the confident boasts and promises of the apostate Whigs.
He would dissemble. "How could that possibly be?" "I don't mind telling you that the last time I offered myself the young lady appeared a trifle less obdurate. She shook her head, but I thought I observed signs of wavering faint, yet appreciable. If now I could only put her under an obligation and thus convince her of my effectiveness, I am confident I could win her."
Lowington had watched it and nursed it with the most assiduous care, and now it bore about a dozen remarkably large and beautiful peaches. They were not quite ripe enough to be gathered, but Shuffles was confident that they would "mellow" in his trunk as well as on the tree.
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