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To this end the proposition submitted by Paterson of New Jersey, in the early sittings of the Convention, for a mere enlargement of the powers of the Confederation, was decisively rejected.

To Mr. Mundella the support of Broadhead and the criminal Unionists was offered, and by him it was decisively rejected. The public mind has been filled with hideous fantasies, on the subject of Unionism, by sensation novelists like Mr. Charles Reade and Mr.

"I did not mean to be severe I do not mean what you think," Ida began, very eagerly. Then she checked herself and added, after a moment, with a slight tinge of sadness in her tone, "I fear we are fated to misunderstand each other. Good-night, Mr. Van Berg," and she turned decisively away and joined her father who was talking with Stanton.

Then an idea presented itself to him. Smiling a little awkwardly, he said: "Laura, I tell you what. I'll make a bargain with you." She looked up as he hesitated. Jadwin sat down at the table opposite her and leaned forward upon his folded arms. "Do you know," he began, "I happened to think Well, here's what I mean," he suddenly declared decisively.

Her graceful gait, elegant figure, and dignified manner in general won the mummers to the opinion that they had gained by the exchange, if the newcomer were perfect in his part. "It don't matter if you be not too young," said Saint George. Eustacia's voice had sounded somewhat more juvenile and fluty than Charley's. "I know every word of it, I tell you," said Eustacia decisively.

May I ask you to make my suspense brief? to allow me to fix our wedding for the second month of the new year?" "But my recent widowhood! Stella's death!" she objected faintly, pressing a perfumed handkerchief gently to her eyes. "In February your husband will have been dead nearly six months," I said, decisively; "it is quite a sufficient period of mourning for one so young as yourself.

If the Master comes 'ome an' finds us scruffin' 'is daughter, 'e'll 'and us both over to the police for assault an' then you'll 'ave cause for worry. Now you git along like a good gel I got to mike pastry." Cook turned away decisively. Wilfred had come home and had raced up the stairs. "Did you get him?" Avice cried. "No he was out.

But" her voice dropped, and she looked timidly first at her friend, and then at Marcella "she isn't a Christian, Nurse. Isn't it sad?" Mrs. Burton, a woman of a rich mahogany complexion, with a black "front," and a mouth which turned down decisively at the corners, looked up from her embroidery with severe composure.

Then I could follow after the hounds in the afternoon and keep out in the fresh air, as the doctor said I must." "Now, now, we've had enough of this," said Fletcher decisively. "You'll do what I say, mind you, and you'll do it quick. No haggling over it, do you hear?" Will looked at him sullenly, nerved by that reckless anger which so often passes for pure daring.

"You are angry and unaccustomed to bridle your tongue," replied the architect. "Pollux, I repeat it, did not perpetrate the caricature, but a sculptor from Rome." "Which of them? I know them all." "I may not name him." "There you see. Come away Claudia." "Stay," said Pontius, decisively.