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I was quite touched by it, for it proves that she loves us tenderly. But I could not understand how we ran such terrible danger as she said we did." "Nor I either, sister. We have always tried not to displease our mother, who sees and hears us." "We love those who love us; we are resigned to whatever may happen to us. So, who can reproach us with any harm?" "No one.
Bless them, and comfort her, in Christ sweet Jesus: and tell her to live in the holy and sweet fear of God, and to recognize the grace she has received from God, which has not been small but very great. Were she to be ungrateful, it would much displease God, and perhaps He would not leave her unpunished. I commend to thee ... I have had no news at all of them, I do not know why.
She toyed incongruously, in her unbuttoned wrapper, with a large tinsel fan which resembled a theatrical property. It was one of the discomforts of Peter's position that many of those minor matters which are superficially at least most characteristic of the histrionic life had power to displease him, so that he was obliged constantly to overlook and condone and pretend.
She went back first to a merry Hallowmas Eve long ago, among the Archfield party and other Winchester friends, and how the nuts had bounced in a manner which made the young ones shout in ecstasy of glee, but seemed to displease some of the elders, and had afterwards been the occasion of her being told that it was all folly, and therewith informed of Charles Archfield's contract to poor little Alice Fitzhubert.
Had I been as attentive not to displease him as I ought to have been, I know not but this vigil might have been fulfilled; but I unluckily entered upon the controversy concerning the right of Great-Britain to tax America, and attempted to argue in favour of our fellow-subjects on the other side of the Atlantick . I insisted that America might be very well governed, and made to yield sufficient revenue by the means of influence , as exemplified in Ireland, while the people might be pleased with the imagination of their participating of the British constitution, by having a body of representatives, without whose consent money could not be exacted from them.
At breakfast Joanna and Pulcheria wondered at her singular behavior, but it did not displease them, and Marv was radiant with contentment. The widow made no objection to allowing the child to go into the city to execute her uncle's mysterious commission. Rustem was with her; and whatever it was that made the child so happy must certainly be right and unobjectionable.
It was one of many trials to which his breadth of view exposed him. To Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D.D. SHEFFIELD, Aug. 11, 1856. MY DEAR BELLOWS, I do not complain of your Teter; but what if it should turn out that I cannot agree with you? What if my opinions, when properly understood, should displease many persons?
I shall remain in submission to thee. Even cunning gamblers are liked by me. Thou, on the other hand, art like a god, and deservest a kingdom. Let this boon be granted to me through thy grace. "Virata replied, 'I shall certainly slay him who may happen to displease thee, and should he be one of the twice-born ones, I shall banish him from my dominions. Let the assembled subjects listen!
"What?" asked Andras, mechanically. "What?" gasped the General, staring at him with dilated eyes. "Why, Froloff, of course! Froloff! The sword broken over your head! The gallows! Ach! I am not a nihilist heaven forbid! but I have displeased the Czar. And to displease the Czar Brr!
And you can't always please yourself; you must sometimes please other people. That, I admit, you're very ready to do; but there's another thing that's still more important you must often displease others. You must always be ready for that you must never shrink from it. That doesn't suit you at all you're too fond of admiration, you like to be thought well of.
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