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Who cannot see in him a forerunner of that greater Teacher who was the friend of publicans and sinners; who rejected the leaven of the Pharisees and the speculations of the Sadducees; who scorned the riches and glories of the world; who rebuked everything pretentious and arrogant; who enjoined humility and self-abnegation; who exposed the ignorance and sophistries of ordinary teachers; and who propounded to his disciples no such "miserable interrogatory" as "Who shall show us any good?" but a higher question for their solution and that of all pleasure-seeking and money-hunting people to the end of time, "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
He felt assured that his ear caught a contiguous step. He repeated his interrogatory in a louder tone, but it obtained no response. Again he stopped. Suddenly he was seized; an iron grasp assailed his throat, a hand of steel griped his arm. The unexpected onset hurried him on.
"He stayed alone with the wagons and when he was wounded, the Germans kicked him with their heavy boots." These are the salient points of the interrogatory. Now and again Lerondeau's babble ceases, and he looks up to the ceiling, for this takes the place of distance and horizon to those who lie upon their backs.
Fessenden, of the Court, propounded this interrogatory? 1st Has it been the practice, since the passage of the law, for an Assistant Secretary to sign warrants unless especially appointed and authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury? 2nd Has any Assistant Secretary been authorized to sign any warrants except such as are specified in the Act?
It grew stronger as I gazed; and before the magistrate's interrogatory had received its reply, the shock of my astonishment had passed. "Your name, sir, if you please?" repeated the justice. "Eugenie Besancon!" At the same instant the hat was pulled off the black curls were drawn aside and the fair, golden tresses of the beautiful Creole exhibited to the view.
A brief interrogatory from one of them armed to the teeth, and with a red cap so low down on his bushy brows as almost wholly to disguise his physiognomy, enquired my name, my business in Paris, and especially what I had to allege against my being shot as a spy in the pay of the Tuileries. My answers were drowned in the roar of the multitude.
"Hear me, then! honours riches power I can lay at your feet, but you alone can enable me to effect this miracle." Rosarita fixed her eyes upon the speaker with an interrogatory expression. "Perhaps I should have told you sooner," continued Tiburcio, "that my adopted mother no longer lives "
There is an interesting and well authenticated tradition, perhaps too strongly established to be questioned, that Lincoln's second interrogatory was designed as a snare for Douglas and that he was forced by it to proclaim his unfortunate doctrine of unfriendly legislation, which gave such deep offense to the South.
Chloe met his interrogatory with a ready report of the young duchess's innocence and good nature that pacified Mr. Beamish. 'And you? said he. She smiled for answer. That smile was not the common smile; it was one of an eager exultingness, producing as he gazed the twitch of an inquisitive reflection of it on his lips.
He rose with dignity and advanced to the corner of the mantel-shelf, on which he leaned in a perfectly self-possessed position, one foot crossed lightly over the other, I remember, and one hand at his side a favorite attitude of his. He interrupted my interrogatory with another, ever an effectual aid in browbeating.
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