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"Yes!" the Southerner remarked with scornful emphasis ... "I shall harness myself once more to the car of triumphant prosperity, and stretch forth my hungry hands to catch the grains that dribble in the rear. Compromise! Compromise! All is Compromise!" "Now you are literary again," Conny pronounced severely. "Your play wasn't a success, there was no compromise about that!
A word from him, uttered with unequivocal emphasis, would have cleared and rescued Perez. Such words, indeed, he pronounced more than once; but never as he would have done, if their effect had been to screen merely the faithful minister of state. The object in their occasional recurrence was one of profound dissimulation.
When at last South Carolina seceded, and it became evident that other States would follow, the major often said with bitter emphasis that the North would have to pay dearly for its sentiment in regard to the negro.
Some negroes are coming with a boat at daybreak, and it is necessary we should all go away with them. You ought to rest as much as possible beforehand." "Rest!" repeated she with bitter emphasis. And clenching her teeth hard, she again said, "I hate him!" Poor Rosa! It had taken a mountain-weight of wrong so to crush out all her gentleness. Mr. Duroy became somewhat alarmed.
Meanwhile you have done good service to the State, and you shall have your reward, cousin. If I am President" he laid emphasis on this, the meaning of which his listener did not miss "if by the support of my followers I become President, I will not forget you. And now I must up-saddle and ride back. I want to be at Laing's Nek in sixty hours, to wait for General Wood's answer.
Three times did Tode's astonished eyes go over this commandment in all its length and breadth; then he looked up and spoke with deliberate emphasis, "This beats all creation! And the strangest part of it is that you didn't tell me anything about it, grandma."
"Perhaps I may not wish to," said Brandon, coolly, "and perhaps I may. At any rate, if I do, I will remember to inquire of Giovanni Cavallo, 16 Red Lion Street, London." He spoke with deep emphasis on the address. Cigole looked uncomfortable, as though he had at last made the mistake which he dreaded, and had committed himself. So the time passed.
She accepted and took on faith what Joan had explained or failed to explain. She laid emphasis on plans for the coming winter and referred to Joan's promise to give herself seriously to her music. "Either in New York or there, my dear, begin your real work. It is all well enough to look about before you decide, but there is a time for decision." This letter put Joan on her mettle.
"I can't do anything not anything public" said Miss Jackson, with emphasis "or I should lose my post. Oh the slavery it is! and the pittance they pay us compared to the men. Every man in the Boys' school get L120 and over and we're thought lucky to get L80. And I'll be bound we work more hours in the week than they do. It's hard!" "That'll soon be mended," said Miss Toogood hopefully.
"I do," answered the Professor, pausing for a minute in his arrangements, and looking over his spectacles at the Captain with an amused expression. "Then," returned the Captain, with emphasis, "I think you'll find that you're mistaken." "Ha! Captain Weeper " "Wopper," said the Captain.
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