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The musicians, most of whom had until now been idly leaning over the balcony, gazing, with an interest of which they were not fully aware, at the servants below as they were putting the finishing strokes to the preparation of the feast, immediately took their allotted places, and Manners found himself at the end of the row within the shadow of the wall, and separated from the rest by the intervening body of the leader.
Delay was all in his favour, if he was to gain the lion's share of the spoils. Russian troops were ready on the banks of the Danube; but he was not as yet fully prepared. His hold on Dalmatia, Ragusa, and Corfu was not wholly assured. Sicily and Malta still defied him; and not until he seized Sicily could he gain the control of the Mediterranean "the constant aim of my policy."
Her voice turned out to be soft and deliberate, and she articulated every syllable fully, as though she were puzzled. 'In that case, allow me to ask you for the first quadrille. She bent her head in token of assent, and even then did not smile.
Unless there came a time when she was absolutely convinced that he meant more to her than her work she and Tom would have to go on in the same old way. But aside from this one cloud it seemed to Grace that she had never before so fully appreciated her father and mother. "You grow dearer every minute," she assured them on her last night at home.
There are kinds of virtuosity in any art which affect the whole of its future; painting can never be the same again after some painter has used line and colour in a manner that his predecessors had not fully developed, music makes a new demand of all musicians when one of them has once increased its language.
"You can form a little idea of it," said a gentleman to his country friend, "when I tell you that that little bit there, that little corner of carving and decoration, cost two hundred thousand dollars! I had this from the architect himself." "My!" The interior was as fully representative of wealth and of the ambition to put under one roof all the notable effects of all the palaces in the world.
Sylvester allowed her eyes to remain in discreet observation of the tablecloth. "I have often thought so," she said at last quietly. "Indeed!" he remarked politely. "Yes; it is a matter, perhaps, which I should have discussed with you before. I am fully aware of the right you have I would not, I mean, have failed " "Oh, my son!" she protested, "I am sure you have always been most correct."
Here it was that he first made the discrimination between the baptism of John, and the baptism of Christ. From this time there is reason to think that his eyes became fully open; for in a few years afterwards, when we have an opportunity of viewing his conduct again, we find him an altered man as to his knowledge of spiritual things.
He fully resolved that as soon as his few weeks of stay approached their end he would cut the matter short, and commit himself by proposing a definite engagement, repenting at leisure if necessary.
With a view to farther improvement, your letters to me are a most useful exercise. I feel persuaded that all my hopes and wishes concerning you will be accomplished. Never use a word which does not fully express your thoughts, or which, for any other reason, does not please you. Hunt your dictionary till you find one.
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