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I do not feel myself adapted for such an establishment, and therefore, I suppose, I must refuse the appointment. 'What would be the harm of the school, papa? 'The want of a proper schoolmaster, my dear. 'But that would of course be supplied. 'Mr Slope wishes to supply it by making me his schoolmaster. But as I am hardly fit for such work, I intend to decline. 'Oh, papa!
I have made up my mind that you shall marry the man you love. Don't tell me your courage is failing you the excuse is contemptible; I decline to receive it. Natalie! the men have a phrase which exactly describes your character. You want back-bone!" The bonnet of the lady who expressed herself in these peremptory terms barely reached the height of Natalie's shoulder.
Would the Honourable and Reverend Mr. Duflian decline to participate in the sparest provender? Would he be guilty of the discourtesy of leaving table without a bow or an apology, even if reduced to extremest poverty? No, indeed! which showed that, under all circumstances, a gentleman was a gentleman.
She pressed us very earnestly to remain until the general should return, in order that he might have an opportunity personally to thank us both and me especially for the important service rendered to his niece; but Captain Hood was anxious to get back to his ship, so as to go on board the admiral's ship, to take part in a council of war: we were therefore reluctantly compelled to decline.
We are seeing a whole people stand up and decline any longer to be imposed upon. The day has come when men are saying to each other: "It doesn't make a peppercorn's difference to me what party I have voted with. I am going to pick out the men I want and the policies I want, and let the label take care of itself.
I will venture to prophesy that the day on which the Union under the new government shall be ratified by the American States, that that day will begin an era which will be recorded and observed by future ages as a day which the Americans had marked by their wisdom in circumscribing the power and ascertaining the decline of the ancient nations in Christendom. October 15.
The day was advancing, the sun was on its decline, and fearing that Florine would be tired of waiting for her, Mother Bunch made haste to act; with a light step, listening anxiously as she went, she reached the end of the passage, where three or four stairs led down to the landing-place of the press room, and then formed a spiral descent to the ground-floor.
"What makes you say that?" demanded Augustus. "Just my own opinion." "I look upon it as an insult." "Would you be kind enough to explain to us what is your reason for wishing to do this thing?" asked Mr. Grey. "No, sir; I decline to give any reason. But those which you ascribe to me are insulting." "Will you deny them?" "I will not assent to anything, coming from you, nor will I deny anything.
It may seem almost an impertinence to use such a word as "decline" in connection with literature at a date when every crossing-sweeper can read, when free libraries are multiplied, when a new novel is published every day all the year round, and when thousands and tens of thousands of books scientific, historical, critical are poured out from the presses.
I take it that the change from youth to manhood, and again from full manhood to decline, comes upon us gradually, never ceasing but never swift, as mind and body alike are insensibly transformed beneath the assault of multitudinous unperceived forces of matter and of circumstances; it is the result we know; that, not the process, is the reality for us.
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