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He simply sneered, and told her he meant to take that letter "to crush her husband with" the first time he asserted any authority over him, and to hold as a menace over her. Then she implored him as an officer, as a gentleman, to give it to her, but he only added sneering insult. Ray could hardly wait till she had finished.
The Hertfords left the hills with uplifted and indignant heads they had the courage of their convictions and meant to take what little was left to them and demand recognition elsewhere they had always been rovers.
Taking Virginia's arm, he escorted her across the street. Stephen was left in a quandary. Here was a home for the girl, and a good one. Why should me spend the money which meant so much to him. He saw the man Jenkin elbowing to the front. And yet suppose Mr. Colfax did not get her?
It was not till she tried to define what that something was to be that she felt a little sinking at her heart; but the cheering belief soon returned, that the whole affair was a mistake, unless it was a pure invention of her aunt's, meant to frighten her into abandoning her rights.
Now this may be all that the President and his party ever meant by that phrase, but it is not all that their words expressed or the country expected.
The commonplace question, he realised in every fibre of his being, meant something they deemed significant. Was it his talent for drawing that they sought to use him for?
But Liberalism also meant the overthrow of the old established institutions inherited from the Middle Ages, especially the destruction of all privileges held by the nobility; it meant on the Continent opposition to all form of dogmatic religious teaching; it meant the complete subjection of the Church to the State; it meant the abolition of all local distinctions and the introduction of a uniform system of government chiefly imitated from French institutions.
Of one thing I felt sure all right for these meant all wrong for me, and it behooved me to prevent the meeting but how?
Jane did not know very precisely what was meant by the phrase, submitting to destiny; but she understood very well that, in this case, it meant that she must go to England to join her father and mother, whether she liked the plan or not. She was silent a moment, and looked very thoughtful.
The more who work, the easier it will be for everybody." But the spokesman only smiled at this that smile which always meant to Mary, "No use talking to a woman" and aloud he said, "Well, as I told you before, we weren't sent to argue. We only came to tell you what the automatic hands were going to do if these four women weren't laid off."
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