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You are a real Frenchman and while you are a mere child, I have full confidence that you will somehow manage to carry out my orders. "'I shall do my best, sir. "'That is all that any man can do. Give careful heed to what I tell you. The colonel gave Henri careful instructions, after which he handed the letters to the lad and bade him God-speed.
In these two brief remarks, taken singly, or, especially, in juxtaposition, from so representative a source, and so characteristic of oligarchical opinions everywhere, appears condensed the suggestive political warning of these times, indeed of all times, and which a people regardful of civil and religious liberty can never be slow to heed.
XXXI. 'Of the free will there is no thief or robber: out of Epictetus; Whose is this also: that we should find a certain art and method of assenting; and that we should always observe with great care and heed the inclinations of our minds, that they may always be with their due restraint and reservation, always charitable, and according to the true worth of every present object.
The mass of flowers is still sweet and gay and fresh; a fountain with fantastic figures is flashing near by; the crowd, going home to supper and beer, gives no heed to the praying; the stolid droschke-drivers stand listlessly by. At the head of the square is an artillery station, and a row of cannon frowns on it.
She was appealing to a man of stone, and, indeed, Medenham could not pay heed to her then in any circumstances, for the road surface quickly became very rough, and it needed all his skill to guide his highly-strung car over its inequalities without inflicting an injury that might prove disastrous.
Two women who were there made the sign of the cross each time the lightning flashed a widespread custom of the French peasantry; but a couple of men who were eating salad and bread paid no heed to the furious cannonade that was kept up by the darkened heavens. It was four o'clock, and they were having their goûter.
Wretched though these quarters were, they at least afforded security from the bursting shells that were being sent across now and then by the enemy, from their positions on the hills to the northwest. Jack had been paying small heed to the merriment of his mates, who, like most young men gathered together in a group, had been carrying on high.
He was saying when Barclay's mind took heed: "And now, sir, I say, now, having forced his unwelcome and, I may say, filthy lucre upon me, the impudent scalawag writes me to-day to say that I must liquidate, must liquidate, sir; in short, pay up. I call that impertinence. But no matter what I call it, he's going to foreclose." Barclay's eyes opened to attention. The colonel went on.
"Never heed," said the scapegrace lord: and stroked his hawk; "there is enough of him to swear by. Put him back! put him back!" "Surely, my lord, 'tis your will his bones be laid in hallowed earth, and masses said for his poor prideful soul?" The noble stroked his hawk. "Are ye there, Master Cure?" said he. "Nay, the business is too old: he is out of purgatory by this time, up or down.
But she paid no heed to me, and passed. "So now you have it, plainly," said I to Mrs. Daniver. She turned on me a face full of surprise and anger mingled. "How dare you, after all that has passed? You left the girl years ago. You have no business, no fortune, not even the girl's consent. I'll not have it! I love her." The good woman's lips trembled. "So do I," said I gently.
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