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The terrible helplessness" her voice faltered for a second "would humiliate him before a woman. But it must be the right man, Sparrow, some one he can like who won't jar him and some one we can afford to keep permanently. I've been thinking about it all night and, do you know, I have an idea. Do you remember my telling you about Adolph Jensen's brother?" "The old one, who failed over here?" "Yes.
The people resisted stubbornly, desperately, and in the end successfully, every attempt to impose upon them alien institutions. The story of Reconstruction has been told elsewhere. A combination of two ideas high-minded altruism and a vindictive desire to humiliate a proud people for partisan advantage wrought mischief which has not been repaired in nearly half a century.
This same officer took advantage of his rank on several other occasions and sought to humiliate me. He was a poor sort of a sport, and many months later when I was his equal in rank in France I punched his head, telling him I had waited eighteen months to do it. So you see, everything comes to those who wait.
The letter-carrier is as old a man as Pa, and I didn't want to humiliate him, but I just wanted Pa to give his consent, so he couldn't kick if he got caught in his own trap. You see?
"But that was not all," said Margaret, suddenly turning on him her grieving eyes eyes that always looked so much more grieved than their owner felt and her flushing, quivering face: "You told me first that I was wrong selfish and unjust; and you want me to humiliate myself to say that it was my fault " "My dearest Margaret!" exclaimed Lady Caroline, in amaze, "what can you mean?
What could she have come for but to humiliate, or play with him? A very few words enabled the Countess to guess the cause for this visit. Of course, it was to beg time! But they thanked Evan. For something generous, no doubt. Sir Franks took him aside, and returning remarked to his wife that she perhaps would have greater influence with him. All this while Rose sat talking to Mrs.
He said he couldn't be disturbed, but for you to go on to the moon according to your instructions, Mr. Cochrane." Cochrane hung up and raged, with one part of his mind. Another part and he despised it began to argue that after all, he had better wait before thinking there was any intent to humiliate him. After all, his orders must have been issued with due consideration.
She would have preferred to weaken and humiliate Russia; to make Servia a dependent of Austria; to render France innocuous and Belgium subservient; and then, having established an overwhelming advantage, to settle accounts with Great Britain. Her grievance against us is that we did not allow her to do this. *Britain's Love of Peace.*
Such an armistice as General von Gablenz could humiliate himself enough to ask from the Prussians has been refused, but another which the Emperor of the French has advised them to accept might ultimately become a fact.
So a large part of manners and courtesy concern themselves with the formulae of conduct which avoid this result to others, and we are also enjoined to conduct ourselves so that others will not regard us as inferior. We speak of a man as a "low person" if he eats with his knife, and very few things so humiliate us as the knowledge that we have behaved in an unmannerly way.
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