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Of course I don't contradict her, but half the time I leave them on my dressing-room table till next morning. Ha! ha! It is always best to humour ladies, even when they are a trifle unreasonable." Nothing of any interest happened during dinner. When it was at last terminated we retired to the drawing-room, and listened with great decorum to several pieces of music.
The speech was an unfortunate one, and was the very 'fuel to maintain its fires' that the other's petulance desired. 'You did, she said hotly. 'I told you I couldn't promise to be acquainted with every detail of routine just at first. 'Will you contradict me in this way! You are telling untruths, I say. Cytherea's lip quivered. 'I would answer the remark if if 'If what?
They certainly do contradict, not each other, but the whole tenor of our lives, and involuntarily a doubt arises, "on which side is truth, on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?" I, too, was weighed down by that same doubt when writing "The Kreutzer Sonata."
When the idea first presented itself to him that his sister was on the way to fall in love with George Roden, it has to be acknowledged that he was displeased. It had not occurred to him that this peculiar breach would be made on the protected sanctity of his own family. When Roden had spoken to him of this sanctity as one of the "social idolatries," he had not quite been able to contradict him.
To you, no doubt, she is little altered. Your eyes have seen the budding of that beauty which but now becomes visible to those less partial. I believe Mrs. Baker did hint at something between you, but it had escaped my mind." The Judge's bright eyes that contradict so pleasantly the heavy cast of his features began to twinkle.
"Major Stafford made certain statements as to the army and the campaign statements which I begged to contradict. I can say no more, sir." "You will tell me what statements, major." "It is impossible for me to do that, sir." "My orders are always possible of execution, sir. You will answer me." Cleave kept silence.
My mother continued, after a short pause., "Arthur is a pretty name. Then there 's William Henry Charles Robert. What shall it be, love?" "Pisistratus! a very fine name," said my mother, joyfully, "Pisistratus Caxton. Thank you, my love: Pisistratus it shall be." "Do you contradict me? Do you side with Wolfe and Heyne and that pragmatical fellow Vico? Do you mean to say that the Rhapsodists "
One or two looked a little ashamed, but there was not a single voice to contradict Lois Dunlap's flat assertion. "Will you please go on, Pen Miss Crain?" Dundee urged, but he had missed nothing of the little by-play. "I wish you would call me Penny so I'd feel more like a person than a witness," Penny retorted thornily. "Where was I?... Oh, yes!
It has been said that those most unmistakable verses on "the blind mole" are not such as any man could insert into another man's work, or slip in between the lines of an inferior poet: and that they occur naturally enough in a speech of no particular excellence. I take leave decisively to question the former assertion, and flatly to contradict the latter.
Because God is the soul, the mind, the heart of nature. The forces of the universe, acting according to their changeless and eternal laws, are simply God at work. And, when I pray to God to interfere, I am praying him to interfere with himself, I am praying him to contradict his own wisely and eternally and changelessly established methods of controlling the world.
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