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The meeting between the queen and Rene was so touching as to have drawn tears to the hard eyes of Louis XI.; but, that emotion over, Margaret evinced how little affliction had humbled her high spirit, or softened her angry passions: she interrupted Louis in every argument for reconciliation with Warwick.
He made one well-timed and almost successful effort to bolt, and even evinced signs of balking on the steps. His punishment was awaiting him.
We have something for him though," pointing with his forefinger over his shoulder to the saucepan that stood on the fire. "We are not cooks not French cooks, not quite; but it's drinkable, drinkable, I think; better than nothing, I think," he added, nodding his head in a jocund manner that evinced his high estimation of the contents of the saucepan and his profound satisfaction therein.
On the other hand, the kindest feelings towards him were evinced by Chief-justice Jay, who was a most amiable man. It was his wish, therefore, as far as practicable, consistent with his principles, to remain neuter. He had never been an electioneering character, and with the people he wished to leave the pending question, without the exercise of any influence he might be supposed to possess.
Sir Philip, who had acknowledged my first introduction to his acquaintance by the quiet courtesy with which a well-bred man goes through a ceremony that custom enables him to endure with equal ease and indifference, now evinced by a slight change of manner how little the mayor's reference to my dispute with Dr. Lloyd advanced me in his good opinion.
I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise.
When it was jubilantly seen by the coalesced propertied classes that the much-dreaded labor movement had been thrust aside and shorn, they resumed their interrupted conflict. The small capitalist evinced a fierce energy in seeking to hinder in every possible way the development of the great.
After they left, the instructor asked many curious questions about him, who he was, how long he had been in the village, whether anything was known of his history, all these inquiries with an eagerness which implied some special and peculiar reason for the interest they evinced. "I feel satisfied," the instructor said, "that I have met that young man in my own country.
Either he dodged, however, or my aim was inaccurate; for all I accomplished was the demolition of the crystal which protected the dial of the clock upon the mantelpiece. As for the Angel, he evinced his sense of my assault by giving me two or three hard, consecutive raps upon the forehead as before.
Even if he occasionally repelled her, it was impossible to despise him. "I am sorry," she said slowly. "Sorry that you should have told me this, because I can only answer that it is impossible." Geoffrey evinced no great surprise.
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