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The powerful protection afforded by the new Tariff to our colonial produce, is one of its most interesting and satisfactory features. That, however, which has justly attracted to it incomparably the greatest share of public attention and discussion, is the introduction of foreign cattle. This topic is one requiring to be spoken of in a diffident spirit, and most guarded language.
Hubbard," said Carl, earnestly, "I feel rather diffident about advising you, for I am only a boy, but I should think you would give up such a dangerous habit." "Say no more, Carl! You are a true friend. I will try to follow your advice. Give me your hand." Carl did so, and felt a warm glow of pleasure at the thought that perhaps he had redeemed his companion from a fascinating vice.
Ida Fuller had both sympathy and self-confidence, and when things went wrong with her friends seldom felt diffident about trying to put them right. In consequence, she took Jake away from the others, whom her father had asked to dinner that evening. "What's the matter with Dick Brandon?" she asked. "It's pretty obvious.
"I shouldn't like to believe so," her voice was faintly diffident. "And you you haven't accepted my invitation for Friday. May I expect you? I didn't tell you, but Archie Archibald Wickersham will be there, as well as Garry. So so you won't be entirely unacquainted." And then, at those words, his face changed.
When I left the dining-room, with an odd feeling that I had been supping exclusively on mustard and tea leaves, I stopped a moment at the parlor door. A piano, harmoniously related to the dinner bell, tinkled responsive to a diffident and uncertain touch. On the white wall the shadow of an old and sharp profile was bending over several symmetrical and shadowy curls.
"But he isn't capable of the theft. Le Drieux states that Jack Andrews is a society swell, an all-around confidence man, and a gambler. Jones is a diffident and retiring, but a very manly young fellow, who loves quiet and seems to have no bad habits. You can't connect the two in any possible way." Again Arthur took time to consider. "I have no desire to suspect Jones unjustly," he said.
The printing of the "Bleeding Lamb" was undertaken by Short, whose dilatoriness in executing his work doubtless prolonged by a few years the existence of the terrestrial globe. There was all the fervour of a prophet in the eye of the "Bleeding Lamb," but inspiration ceased here, and even what there was of inspired and prophetic in his eye was overcast by a certain diffident and deprecating look.
Rothschild has exported 800,000£ in silver and 400,000£ in gold to meet his bills when they become due diffident of having anything paid to himself. September 5. Cabinet room. Found Lord Rosslyn there. He told me the substance of a report I did not see of Col. Jones, who was sent by the Duke to the Netherlands, and is returned.
And Jacques Collin stood in an attitude of diffident submission. "You place the letters in my hands, then?" said the public prosecutor. "You have only to send for them; they will be delivered to your messenger." "But how?" Jacques Collin read the magistrate's mind, and kept up the game. "You promised me to commute the capital sentence on Calvi for twenty years' penal servitude.
Ford had casually remarked, in answer to a diffident question from Mrs. Kate, that he was going to ride out on Long Ridge and see if any stock was drifting back toward the ranch. He hadn't sent any one over that way for several days. Ford, be it said, had announced his intention deliberately, moved by a vague, unreasoning impulse.
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