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Percy invited Hal and Billy Keating to spend the night in the train; but this Hal declined. He was too dirty, he said; besides, he wanted to be up at daylight, to be one of the first to go down the shaft. Percy answered that the superintendent had vetoed this proposition he did not want any one to go down but experienced men, who could take care of themselves.
He started in answer to the summons, writing on his way the beautiful stanzas to the Po, beginning River that rollest by the ancient walls Where dwells the lady of my love. She on her part declined to have anything to do with them.
But at this time Herzl was not able to obtain an audience with the Sultan. Nevlinski reported that such an audience had been refused because the Sultan declined to discuss sovereignty over Palestine. Doubt was expressed as to the accuracy of the report. Whatever the fact may be, the first venture of Herzl in Constantinople was not successful.
The latter declined to accept it on the ground that he was a banker and not a fighting man, and that his business position would have been materially injured by his fighting a duel. The Irishman might have made the most of this triumph, such as it was.
She understood it all. She knew that Lady Glencora had positively declined her companionship; and if she resolved to be revenged, such resolution on her part was only natural. When she reached Lady Monk's house, she had to make her way up stairs all alone. The servants called her Mrs Marsh, and under that name she got passed on into the front drawing-room.
You have declined all my offers, and finally, upon the most flimsy evidence, you have detained a perfectly innocent man." "Oh, I see. A perfectly innocent man, eh?" "Perfectly innocent, Inspector. There are so many points that you have overlooked. For instance, do you seriously suppose that Mr.
That we declined engaging too far in the affairs of the continent, proceeded, my lords, from a regard to the trade of the nation, which is not only suspended and interrupted during the time of war, but often thrown into another channel, out of which it is the business of many years to recover it.
The world till now had to me been sleeping; here only men were alive! At Oxford indeed, owing to circumstances, I had felt some similar emotions. But that was a transient scene that quickly declined into stillness and calm: here I was told it was everlastingly the same!
But the politic chieftain declined this flattering tribute, and modestly preferred to enter the city by the usual way.
I declined to give the name, saying that I did not wish to disturb Mr. Bayliss. If he was in his room I would wait until he came down. He was in his room, had not yet breakfasted, although it was nearly ten in the forenoon. I sat down in a chair from which I could command a good view of the elevators, and waited. The concierge strolled over and chatted. Was I a friend of Mr. Bayliss?
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