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"I'll I'll be a long time dead. I I wonder whether you'd do me a favour." "I'll do anything in the world you want." She tried to smile down at him, but only succeeded in making her chin quiver, which would never do being unprofessional and likely to get to the head nurse; so, being obliged to do something, she took his pulse by the throbbing in his neck. "One, two, three, four, five, six "
Voltaire is in favour of absolute power. Montesquieu would like the judicature to be a family office, that is to say hereditary like the profession of a soldier; this would make the judicial profession permanent like other professions. He demonstrates, as does Suidas, that the purchase system creates an aristocracy.
The darkness was all in favour of the advancing infantry, who in their khaki uniforms were almost invisible to the Boers.
Benett addressed them at a very considerable length in favour of a petition that he submitted for their adoption, expressive of the serious injury already sustained by the farmer, and the probable result likely to fall on the landholder, arising from the reduced and low price of corn, owing particularly to the importations from France, &c.
A roar of laughter, and 'Don't you remember this day last year? followed the cunning guess. For awhile explication was impossible; and Evan coloured, and smiled, and waited for them. 'I was going to ask 'Said so! shouted the old boy, gleefully. one of the gentlemen who has engaged a bed-room to do me the extreme favour to step aside with me, and allow me a moment's speech with him.
That Hamlet should seem at times to accept for himself, and even to enforce by reiteration of argument upon his conscience and his reason, some such conviction or suspicion as to his own character, tells much rather in disfavour than in favour of its truth.
His fairness is that of a kingly race. What is his parentage, Hersir Sigurd? You who have shown him so much favour, who have dressed him in such fine clothes, and who even go so far as to teach him the reading of runes, surely know him to be of noble birth. Who is he, I say?"
Of him, as of Goldsmith, it might be said that he touched nothing he did not adorn. True, that the things he touched were for the most part small things, but they were things that kept him before the eye of society, and found favour in that eye. He was a good horseman, a good oarsman, a good swimmer, a good cricketer.
"Which you will admit is a very great point in my favour," Bell said, gravely. "I begin to think that I have done you a great injustice," Littimer admitted; "but, under the circumstances, I don't see how I could have done anything else. Look at that picture. It is exactly the same as mine. There is exactly the same discolouration in the margin in exactly the same place."
"Pavel Andreitch," she said, smiling mournfully, "forgive me, I don't believe you: you are not going away, but I will ask you one more favour. Call this" she pointed to her papers "self-deception, feminine logic, a mistake, as you like; but do not hinder me. It's all that is left me in life." She turned away and paused. "Before this I had nothing. I have wasted my youth in fighting with you.
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