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I have a good many pupils on hand already; but yes, he said, consulting an ornate note-book, 'I could give you an hour on Tuesdays and Fridays. His terms, I confess, are rather high. But I don't grudge the investment. Often I have presentiments of evil; but, never having had one of them fulfilled, I am beginning to ignore them.
They therefore ignore entirely the source from which they must draw all the energy which they employ in their remedies, and they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view.
His smile was certainly one of amusement now. "You must pardon me for seeming to change the subject," he said. "Why should you worry? There is nothing in life worth worrying about." Fine scorn crept into the girl's face. "No," he continued, answering her expression. "I don't ignore. I am glad because I have chosen to be glad, and because I have won my content.
No temptation would induce me to continue longer in office, even were it considered desirable that I should continue to hold my appointment, which for the good of the country I ought not. At the same time. Her Majesty's Government cannot continue much longer to ignore this territory. By such a course they are only sowing the seeds of further trouble, which I shall not be sorry to escape.
'However, she said, 'no one'll recognise me, that's one comfort! Still, the medal weighed heavily; it was a gold medal. Difficult to ignore its presence in the house! Tom's crowning sin was that he was such a bad example to Henry. Henry worshipped him, and the more Tom was contemned the more Henry worshipped. 'You'll surely be very late, Tom, Mrs. Knight ventured to remark at half-past nine.
One week of life with the future eliminated; one week with no reckoning to be made at the end; one week with every human fetter struck off; one week in which to ignore every curbing law of futurity and abandon himself to the joy of the present! The future even the narrow bounds of an earthly future holds men prisoners.
Under this printed line she had pencilled her name. I asked if he had seen her. "Ah, no! the Doctor has drugged her to sleep; but that woman who came with you was still in the parlor, reading a book, and she gave me this. What does it mean?" "Lieutenant," I replied, choking with dismay, "why mind her meanings now? Ought you not rather to ignore them? She is fevered, dejected, overwrought.
I ought not to pity her when I remember how wicked she has been; but there is a look in her eye when she is not laughing or talking that gives me the heart-ache." "She is very unhappy!" replied Mabel, sighing. "And so, I doubt not, is Winston, although he will not own it, and affects to ignore the fact of her failing health and spirits.
What seemed also strange was that the waiter, while yet receiving and executing his orders, was evidently pretending to ignore his presence. But then, as I dare say you know as well as I do, French waiters are such actors! “Well, to resume, there he was, this fourth man, seated at our table and feasting at our expense. And the pranks that he would play us—they were truly stupendous.
To a certain extent this is true; but the men who are responsible for this state of affairs are not the professional politicians, but the good citizens, who are in the majority, and who could control, if they would, but who unpatriotically neglect their duty to the public, or ignore it in the presence of their individual interests.
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