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She considered that she ought to have been in a magnificent drawing-room of her own in Park Lane or the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, welcoming counts, princes, duchesses, diplomats and self-possessed geniuses of finished manners, with witty phrase that displayed familiarity with all that was profoundest and most brilliant in European civilisation.
I didn't feel this way when you beat me out for stroke. I'll admit it. I didn't show my feelings, but I was thinking of nothing but my licking " "Ah!" "Just a minute, Jim. I didn't realize the bigness of the thing, didn't appreciate that what I wanted to do didn't count for a damn. Baliol, only Baliol! It all came to me when you bucked out. Baliol is all that counts, Jim.
Young Lord Rochester has written a poem upon 'Nothing. He might have taken Queen Catherine's name as a synonym. She is nothing; she counts for nothing. Her love can benefit nobody; her hatred, were the poor soul capable of hating persistently, can do no one harm." "And the King is he so unkind to her?" "Unkind! No. He allows her to live.
To forbid the king to take part in the investiture was, consequently, to rob him not only of his feudal rights but also of his authority over many of his government officials, since bishops, and sometimes even abbots, were often counts in all but name.
They all say the same things with the same expressions as though they got them from the same books, and their gambolling makes their joints creak. It's all like playing with a fire of damp logs. I like something that can blaze and scorch. The game counts then." "Then you ought to like me," said Harry, doing his best to look the very devil of a fellow.
So it went on; and now Lady Cecilia was as much amused as she expected by these daily jealousies, conflicts, and comparisons, the feelings perpetually tricking themselves out, and strutting about, calling themselves judgments, like the servants in Gil Blas in their masters' clothes, going about as counts dukes, and grandees.
I mean to say, I haven't got my patent with me, and my coronet's in the store I mean, strong room; but anyone who doesn't know me will tell you Besides, I never scratch." "The Marquis is a Blue Persian." "These foreign titles," I murmured scornfully. "Don't be patronizing," said Silvia. "You know where Pride goes. Besides, I've met some very nice counts." I leaned forward. "I know.
They were historic notes, written in a bold womanly hand at his dictation some months before, and it was the clerical rendering of word after word that absorbed him. He presently took from a drawer a carefully tied bundle of letters, few, very few, as correspondence counts nowadays.
'I suppose it was the first time for information, the second time for emphasis, and the rest counts to keep it alive in your recollection. 'This is what you have to take to heart, sir; that Dr. Shrapnel is now seriously ill. 'I'm sorry for it, and I'll pay the doctor's bill. 'You make it hard for me to treat you with respect. 'Fire away.
"No use of waitin'," said Terry; "let's take hold; I've an idaa that we ain't far from the cabin and ivery mile that we can make now counts." Fred started to give his help, when to his unbounded amazement, he narrowly missed going headlong over a small Indian canoe that lay at their feet.
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