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But after the treaty had been made the Colombia Government thought it had the matter in its own hands; and the further thought, equally wicked and foolish, came into the heads of the people in control at Bogota that they would seize the French Company at the end of another year and take for themselves the forty million dollars which the United States had agreed to pay the Panama Canal Company.
It is foolish for me to say so, but on that day of the slave auction, when I first saw you, I had a premonition about you that I have never admitted until now, even to myself." She started. "Why, Stephen," she cried, "I felt the same way!" "And then," he continued quickly, "it was strange that I should have gone to Judge Whipple, who was an intimate of your father's such a singular intimate.
The preachers of Varennes, saith Panurge, detest and abhor the second marriages, as altogether foolish and dishonest. Foolish and dishonest? quoth Pantagruel. A plague take such preachers!
And in order that I may no more see your foolish little pretty face, I decree that, for the future, you wear a yashmak to cover up your lips, which, I can see, were meant to be seductive, though dirty; and you can leave the blue eyes, and the little white-skinned freckled nose uncovered, if you like, they being commonplace enough.
"He told me that he had been bidden by a woman to bring me into a place of safety, and he brought me here. He would tell me nothing more." "He did not even try and picture the woman for you?" "Only his fiddle could do that, he declared." "You see how foolish he is," said Barbara. "I do not find any great sign of folly in that," Crosby answered. "I was thinking of your journey, sir.
After several efforts, George succeeded in doing as she bade him, and held a candle forward in his trembling hand. "Come, don't be foolish," she said; "a picture has fallen, that is all." He advanced to look at it, and then benefited his companions with a further assortment of curses.
The mischief-makers soon learned the boy's purpose, and there was great joy among them, and when Gray finally asked Marjorie to go with him, she demurely told him she was going with Jason. Gray was amazed and indignant, and he pleaded with her not to do anything so foolish. "Why, it's outrageous. It will be the talk of the town. Your mother won't like it.
From being a mature woman charged with an important mission, Cassandra shrunk to the stature of an inexperienced child. "Do you think I've been very foolish about it?" she asked. Katharine made no answer, but still sat deliberating silently, and a certain feeling of alarm took possession of Cassandra.
I was heart-weary of this empty life, for which I was so ill-fashioned, and weary also of that intolerant talk which would make a coterie of frivolous women and foolish fops the central point of the universe.
"Is it your belief that King Canute will not carry out his intention, lady, that you say 'when the peace is over'? I know for certain that it is expected to last forever." "Forever?" The lady's voice was an echo of sweet mockery. "Take half a kingdom when a whole lies almost within his reach? Now I will not deny that the King is sometimes boyish of mood, but rarely that foolish."
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