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The giant bit his cigar and folded his long arms over his enormous chest, leaning back in the easy chair which creaked under his weight. "You have tried yourself in business by this time, Orsino," he said, "and you know as well as I what there is to be done. You have three modes of action open to you. You can fail. It is a simple affair enough.
I have met this objection adequately in more than one passage: I have proved that God cannot fail to produce the best; and from that assumption it follows that the evils we experience could not have been reasonably excluded from the universe, since they are there.
'But you must not begin to fail, Rachael, for you may be wanted at any time to stand by Stephen. To-morrow is Saturday. If no news comes to-morrow, let us walk in the country on Sunday morning, and strengthen you for another week. Will you go? 'Yes, dear. They were by this time in the street where Mr. Bounderby's house stood.
Oh, I love him! ... He seems so much younger today. You have encouraged them all... Oh, dear Neale, there is something noble in what you can do for him. Can't you see it?" "Yes, Allie, indeed I do." "Promise me never to fail him again." "I promise." "No matter what happens to me. I am alive, safe, well... and I'm yours.
"Oh, I cannot learn this; I think I'm getting more stupid every day. Enceladus " "If you love me, Johnny, give it up for to-night, that's a darling boy," said his mother. "But, mother, it's my duty to know it; you wouldn't have me fail in duty, mother dear, would you? Why, it was you who told me to persevere, and do all things with my might. Well, I will leave it for to-night."
We have observed, as we could hardly fail to do, that, whatever the emotion that artists express may be, it comes to many of them through the contemplation of the familiar objects of life. The object of an artist's emotion seems to be more often than not either some particular scene or object, or a synthesis of his whole visual experience.
And when the Black Tyrone, who are exclusively Irish, fail to disturb the peace of head of a foreigner that foreigner is certain to be a superior man. The White Hussars were as conscientious in choosing their wine as in charging the enemy.
What mortal, short of a Diogenes, could fail to understand Lucien's feelings as he climbed the dirty, fetid staircase to his lodging, turned the key that grated in the lock, and entered and looked round at the unswept brick floor, at the cheerless grate, at the ugly poverty and bareness of the room. A package of manuscript was lying on the table.
He seemed more than once to be upon the point of saying something, and to fail at the last moment, as though either his wits or his courage were unequal to the effort. She could not have said what conveyed this impression, but it was curiously strong. She tried hard to elicit further information, but Beelzebub only became more idiotic in response, and she was obliged to relinquish the attempt.
These four words haunted me a long while; nay, at times they even echo in my memory now. I had heard a hundred anecdotes of this prince, which could not fail to charm a youth of my disposition.
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