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"Finally, one day, as I had no inkling of what he was really aiming at, Alfred put me on to it!"... The corporal stopped. His throat was strained and dry. Fandor brought him a glass of water, which he swallowed at a gulp. With a grateful look he continued: "'Vinson, said Alfred to me, 'I have confidence in you, and you know how discreet I am!
The authorities required order, the respect of a discreet religion, the triumph of reason; whereas the need of happiness carried the people off into an enthusiastic desire for cure both in this world and in the next. Oh! to cease suffering, to secure equality in the comforts of life; to march on under the protection of a just and beneficent Mother, to die only to awaken in heaven!
Greymount was noticed; sent for; promoted in the household; knighted; might doubtless have been sworn of the council, and in due time have become a minister; but his was a discreet ambition of an accumulative rather than an aspiring character.
I sought to break down his reserve, and make myself acceptable to him, by the display of a discreet geniality, and a certain frankness, not falling into familiarity, which should seem to proceed from sympathy, and a bonhommie, that, assured of its own kindly purpose, would take no account of his almost angry distance. The opportunity was auspicious, and I was on the alert to turn it to account.
And the little, nocturnal censers of jessamine, of honeysuckle, of linden, continued to throw into the air exquisite puffs to intoxicate them; the darkness that enveloped them seemed more and more caressing and soft; in the silence of the village and of the country, the tree-toads gave, from moment to moment, their little flute-note, which seemed a very discreet love call, under the velvet of the moss; and, through the black lace of the foliage, in the serenity of a June sky which one thought forever unalterable, they saw scintillate, like a simple and gentle dust of phosphorus, the terrifying multitude of the worlds.
"Before I intrust it to you, I must feel that you will not only be discreet, but that you will labor to foil this wicked plot." "I will do everything I can," replied Uncle Nathan, warmly, for his heart was touched at the wrongs of Emily. "Then here is the will," said Hatchie, handing him the packet, which he had taken the precaution to envelop in oil-cloth.
It began charmingly, and went on very well under Lowell's discreet pruning, but after a while he seemed to fall in love with the character of the diarist so much that he could not bear to cut anything.
The girls, who are mostly of country birth and training, are thus furnished with a good and safe home, where they have books and music, large and well-furnished chambers, a good table they dine at one family table in their own dining-room and have their washing and ironing done in the house. They are required to be neat and tidy in appearance, respectable and discreet in character and manner.
Throughout my stay at Lugano I only frequented the house of M. de R , where I saw the Abbe Riva, a learned and discreet man, to whom I had been commended by M. Querini, his relation. The abbe enjoyed such a reputation for wisdom amongst his fellow-countrymen that he was a kind of arbiter in all disputes, and thus the expenses of the law were saved.
Those good and discreet ladies have a notion that their conduct is full of propriety and discretion and sound sense; but how they make their sisters suffer ah, how they make the poor things suffer!
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