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Caroline gladly promised to ask her mamma's consent, but when she inquired what this wonderful thing was, Harry only laughed and said, "No; I'll keep it secret till to-morrow. It is enough to ask a girl to keep one thing secret at a time. Remember, if aunt consents, we must set out to-morrow before anybody is up." Mrs.
After many entreaties, the sage consents. Then the king again goes out a-begging, but in vain. Then he resolves to sell his person and goes about hawking himself in the streets. No one responds to his efforts. No buyer appears. At this time, a Brahmin with a disciple, asks whether a male or a female slave is for sale and intimates that he requires a female slave.
"Thank ye, sir, for yer kind permission," said Dan in a tone and with an air of assumed meekness. The skipper returned to the bed, which creaked as if taxed to its utmost, when he sat down on it, and drew Susan close to his side. "This is from Mr Stuart, Haco," said I, running my eye hastily over the note; "he consents to my sending the men in your vessel, but after what you have told me "
We are sure that those who humbly confess their inability to expound the great enigma act more rationally and more decorously than Mr Sadler, who tells us, with the utmost confidence, which are the means and which the ends, which the exceptions and which the rules, in the government of the universe; who consents to bear a little evil without denying the divine benevolence, but distinctly announces that a certain quantity of dry weather or stormy weather would force him to regard the Deity as the tyrant of his creatures.
'It is precisely from the fact of its being new and untried I need you, was the reply, and his denial was not accepted. Refusal was impossible; and with all the reluctance a man consents to what his convictions are more opposed to even than his reasons, Lord Danesbury gave in, and accepted the viceroyalty of Ireland.
He is conveyed to a raised couch and the shrine is placed before him. At length he consents to perform the function imposed upon him by his office. He raises himself painfully upon his couch. The attendants remove the covering from the shrine and disclose an antique crystal vessel which they reverently place before the lamentable king.
'That depends on your behaviour, Captain Pendle. But I am both pleased and relieved that the bishop consents to the marriage. 'Aunty! cried Mab, reddening a trifle,'don't talk as though it were a favour. I do not look upon myself as worthless, by any means. 'Worthless! echoed George, gaily; 'then is gold mere dross, and diamonds but pebbles.
Her father made her a sign which meant "He consents," and then Marien saw that the needle in her fingers trembled, and a slight color rose in her face but that was all. She did not say a word. He could not know that for a week past she had gone to church every time she took a walk, and had offered a prayer and a candle that her wish might be granted.
Magda, full of life and the spirit of liberty, goes out into the world to return to her native town, twelve years later, a celebrated singer. She consents to visit her parents on condition that they respect the privacy of her past. But her martinet father immediately begins to question her, insisting on his "paternal rights."
'It is an act of justice, continued he, 'to provide for the girl, if she consents to give up the written promise of marriage which she has received, and I leave it to your discretion to do what is right for her, as well as to determine the sum necessary to bring my son to Madrid in a manner suitable to his condition.
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