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In consequence, she went her way as gaily and yet as inoffensively as she could, trying to avoid the sadness of entrancing anyone hopelessly and wondering what her career was to be. Then Eugene appeared. With his arrival, Suzanne had almost unconsciously entered upon a new phase of her existence.
I carried on shore with me the young man whose mother was starved to death, and the maid also; she was a sober, well-educated, religious young woman, and behaved so inoffensively that every one gave her a good word; she had, indeed, an unhappy life with us, there being no woman in the ship but herself, but she bore it with patience.
He would fain know who she was, but she would not tell; yet did give him many pleasant hints of her knowledge of him, by that means setting his brains at work to find, out who she was, and did give him leave to use all means to find out who she was, but pulling off her mask. He was mighty witty, and she also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant 'rencontre' I never heard.
I said something about triangulation, once; the stately word pleased his ear; he inquired what it meant; I explained; after that he quietly and inoffensively ignored my name, and always called me Triangle. What an enthusiast he was in cattle! At the bare name of a bull or a cow, his eye would light and his eloquent tongue would turn itself loose.
As they conducted themselves so inoffensively, we gave them everything we had to spare. My gun seemed to excite their curiosity, as they had seen Mr. Hume shoot a cockatoo with it; they must consequently have been close to us for the greater part of the day, as the bird was killed in the morning.
He adorned an art, he endeavoured at eminence, and he inoffensively enjoyed the pleasure of his own superiority. He could also have defended himself by the example of Aeneas, who, introducing himself, said: 'Sum pius Aeneas ..... ... fama super aethera notus. Aeneid, i. 378. I fear that Twalmley met with the neglect that so commonly befalls inventors. In the Gent.
Ordinary men might say or think it inoffensively; Captain Baskelett, for instance: but not Nevil Beauchamp. Captain Baskelett, as she had conveyed the information to her father for his comfort in the dumb domestic language familiar between them on these occasions, had proposed to her unavailingly.
After some discourse she contrived to say inoffensively that people who strolled into her churches for the music, or out of curiosity, played the barbarian. 'Well, I will not go, said Nevil. 'But I do not wish to number you among them, she said. 'Then, said Nevil, 'I will go, for it cannot be barbarous to try to be with you. 'No, that is wickedness, said Renee.
"You will see, Barbara, that I am saying precisely the same thing, but saying it inoffensively, as a gentleman should." Forty-eight hours later he dictated: "'DEAR MRS. LEVITT: "'No: I have no suggestion to make except that you curtail your very considerable expenditure.
"I pray thee;" what language could be more courteous and gentle? "give glory to God, and make confession;" what words could be more inoffensively pertinent?
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