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Regarding the Young-Turk revolution of 1908, Professor Lybyer remarks: "Turkey was not so unprepared for parliamentary institutions as might at first sight appear. There lay hidden some precedent, much preparation, and a strong desire, for parliamentary government. Both the religious and the secular institutions of Turkey involve precedents for a parliament.

It's always a pity when such a man lets his sympathies use him instead of using them. But we must always judge that kind of crank leniently, if he doesn't involve other people in his erase." She knew that he was shielding and trying to spare her, and she felt inexpressibly degraded by the terms of his forbearance.

He did not expect it; still he fronted the risks. 'And now, said he, 'I come to you for counsel. I am not held among my acquaintances to be a marrying man, as it's called. He paused. Lady Dunstane thought it an occasion to praise him for his considerateness. 'You involve no one but yourself, you mean? Her eyes shed approval.

Yes, deceived; and here we cannot help observing, that this history of ours is a very true picture of human life for what a complication of treachery does it not involve! Smallbones is deceiving his master, Mr Vanslyperken the corporal is deceiving Mr Vanslyperken the widow is deceiving Mr Vanslyperken, so is Babette, and the whole crew of the Yungfrau.

In other instances, the congestion of the optic nerve is so serious as to involve a progressive wasting of that organ, producing at first a hazy dimness of vision which gradually becomes worse and worse, till total blindness may ensue.

This plan will, I admit, involve many months' detention here, but it is the only feasible way of escape which has, so far, presented itself to my mind; and my conversation with Johnson this morning has convinced me that we have nothing to hope for from him.

Pat Clancy, who had maintained a certain dignified reserve all day, not quite liking the notion of being regarded as Roseen's pensioner, and not being certain whether this new move did not involve a sacrifice of independence, was now fairly overcome. "God bless you, me child!" he said brokenly, "ye were always the good little girl, Roseen. Herself and me will be quite at home here."

Gre. I cannot remain on his land." "As for getting Monsieur de St. Gre into trouble, his own son could not involve him with the Baron," answered Madame la Vicomtesse. "And it seems to me, Monsieur, that you are already so far beholden to Monsieur de St. Gre that you cannot quibble about going a little more into his debt. Come, Mr. Temple, how has Monsieur de St. Gre ever offended you?"

Selfish and unscrupulous as he was, Freeling hesitated to do this. And besides, the "desperate expedients" he would have to adopt in the new line of policy were fraught with peril to all who took part in them. He might fall into the snare set for another might involve himself so deeply as not to find a way of escape. "To-morrow we will talk this matter over," he said in reply to Mrs.

A golden opportunity was lost, for we had ample excuse for crossing the boundary, but Mr. Seward being, as I have already stated, unalterably opposed to any act likely to involve us in war, insisted on his course of negotiation with Napoleon. As the summer wore away, Maximilian, under Mr.