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These questions and difficulties pressed on my mind with an interest which was greatly increased by the impossibility of resolving them. I had already begun to suspect that my friendship for Diana Vernon was not altogether so disinterested as in wisdom it ought to have been.
In the foreign field there is peace, the good will which comes from mutual understanding, and the knowledge that the problems which a short time ago appeared so ominous are yielding to the touch of manifest friendship.
"Do you think you could show your friendship and stick to me through a terrible ordeal?" she asked earnestly. "I'm sure of it," he answered. "My love is not so thin-skinned as to shrink from any test. Only try me!" "Then get me away from this place," she cried, "far, far away from it. But, mind, it will not be so easy as you think." "Are you held against your will?" demanded Paul. "No, no!
Beale, who was drunk one moment and sober the next, who had offices in the city which he did not visit and who took such an inordinate interest in her affairs, and she resented him all the more because, in some indefinable way, he had shaken her faith no, not shaken her faith, that was too strong a term he had pared the mild romance which Dr. van Heerden's friendship represented.
I hope you will not think me rude if I venture to ask you to honour me with your friendship, and to come into this tea-house to drink a cup of wine with me and two of my friends."
Indeed, since it may have been a belief in your virtue that has made one your friend, it is hard for friendship to last if you fall away from virtue. But if we should determine either to concede to friends whatever they may ask, or to exact from them whatever we may desire, we and they must be endowed with perfect wisdom, in order for our friendship to be blameless.
"Nay, nay, do not speak thus, Madame; your son knows how much I value, how sincerely I return, his friendship; but but," she paused a moment, and continued sadly and with tearful eyes "I have no heart to give to him-to any one." "I do not I would not if I dared ask what it would be violence to yourself to promise.
Amongst the persons there the most renowned for their learning and their wisdom in state matters was one Thales, whom Lycurgus, by importunities and assurances of friendship, persuaded to go over to Lacedaemon; where, though by his outward appearance and his own profession he seemed to be no other than a lyric poet, in reality he performed the part of one of the ablest lawgivers in the world.
Dyson admitted that in the spring of 1876 her husband had objected to her friendship with Peace, and that nevertheless, in the following summer, she and Peace had been photographed together at the Sheffield fair. She made a vain attempt to escape from such an admission by trying to shift the occasion of the summer fair to the previous year, 1875, but Mr.
Though some tribes rejected their friendship, yet it is certain that many were won over by their insinuating arts and intrigues, and entered into alliances with them.
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