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The country lost a brave and experienced soldier, a wise and discreet counselor, and a modest and sensible man.
Add to this that he is extremely discreet and amiable, with a modesty which seems perfect, though none can tell whether, with his light silent footstep, he is not really marching towards the highest ambition, the purple of sovereignty."
I do not like him at all, even at this distance, and I cannot resist feeling that I do not want him to see anything more of Mollie. We are not very discreet, we Vagabonds, but we must learn wisdom enough to shield Mollie." And she sighed again. "I understand that," he said, almost tenderly, so sympathetically, in fact, that she turned toward him as if moved by a sudden impulse.
He does more than this in his preface, indeed, a marvellous piece of reality and irony which tells how a courtesan in Gibraltar fell madly in love with a gentleman-sponger who lived on her money while he could, and then took the first boat home with discreet heartlessness on coming into a bequest from a far-off cousin.
I shall manage them as well as the Germans whom I shall meet in the field and make it hot for them." "But you can't kill gods! Tell me, what did you hear of them among the Germans?" Then the discreet Bohemian wrinkled his brow, stopped for a moment, and said: "Killing or no killing, we informed ourselves of everything, specially Pan Macko, who is cunning and able to circumvent every German.
She looked into his eyes for a moment. "It is a great decision," she said, "which rests with you!" An hour or so later, Prince Shan left his house in Curzon Street and, followed at a discreet distance by two members of his household, strolled into the Park.
She is of discreet age, and will tell you when it is time to come away, you might stay too long, you know. I've known young persons stay a good deal too long at these interviews, a great deal too long, Susan Posey!" Such was the fatherly counsel of Master Byles Gridley.
You had better send your material along with some discreet person as rapidly as possible, and leave for Montreal the first moment you can do so. "He also stated that he and Mr. Carey would leave London in the morning to take passage from Liverpool to Montreal. The Messenger being the first steamer to leave, they were going over in her.
And earlier in the same essay, he says of the novel: "For the welter of impressions, all forcible but all discreet, which life presents, it substitutes a certain artificial series of impressions, all indeed most feebly represented, but all aiming at the same effect, all eloquent of the same idea, all chiming together like consonant notes in music or like the graduated tints in a good picture.
So little could it do it that this system openly denied its faith, and that, pending the accord of reason and revelation, Galileo, one of the responsible inventors, underwent torture in proof of the new idea. We are more tolerant, I presume; but this very toleration proves that, while according greater liberty to genius, we do not mean to be less discreet than our ancestors.
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