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He would have burst out in wild imprecations, had not Undine with the meekest looks and gentlest tone of voice said "For God's sake, my husband, do not express displeasure against me here we are on the water." The knight was silent, and sat down absorbed in deep thought.
"What might you be pleased to want, sir?" she asked Lucian, in the meekest of voices. "Is it about the lodgings?" "Yes," answered the barrister boldly, for he guessed that Mrs. Bensusan would scuttle back into the house like a rabbit to its burrow, did he speak too plainly at the outset, "that is I wish to inquire about a friend of mine." "Did he lodge here, sir?" "Yes. A Mr. Wrent."
"Is it likely I'd suggest it to her?" the meekest of women answered, aroused to retort for once, and with her face like a sheet. "Is it likely I'd tell her? Is it likely I'd give my own girl the clue? She said it all of herself, I tell you, without one word of prompting. She said it just as I repeated it to a place in the wilds by the name of Mambury."
Poppy turned very red. "No, Miss Jasmine, darling, I couldn't," she said, in the meekest voice. Poppy's tones were so unlike those she usually employed that Jasmine glanced at her in some surprise. "Why, Poppy, how funny you are!" she exclaimed. "Is anything the matter?" "Don't you notice it, Miss Jasmine, but I'm a bit low-like," said Poppy.
Besides, Debby had not breathed the air of coquetry so long without a touch of the infection; and the love of power, that lies dormant in the meekest woman's breast, suddenly awoke and tempted her. "If you catch me before I reach that rock, perhaps I will say 'Yes," was her unexpected answer; and before her lover caught her meaning, she was floating leisurely away.
Such changes often occur, and though it may suit the self-sufficiency of the worldling to deride them, he is the wisest who submits in the meekest spirit to powers that exceed his comprehension. In this state of mind, then, Peter left the band as soon as the fate of the missionary was decided.
Among the remnants which remained from the days of William the Testy were the militia laws, by which the inhabitants were obliged to turn out twice a year, with such military equipments as it pleased God; and were put under the command of tailors and man-milliners, who, though on ordinary occasions they might have been the meekest, most pippin-hearted little men in the world, were very devils at parades, when they had cocked hats on their heads and swords by their sides.
I called to them, and in a moment they quieted down, and behaved exactly as children would have done when caught tripping they came out of the water and followed me, in the meekest and most penitent manner, back to their home under the deodar.
He was the meekest, the mildest, the least haughty man on earth, having no more pride in him than the kitchen knife. It was known in every street in Paris that from the day the good man married Peggy Kirkpatrick she never allowed him to forget the enormous honor that a daughter of the penniless, bare-legged clan of Kirkpatrick had done him and the kingdom of Spain, in marrying him.
Though Crofts was strongly in favour of the new religion, he had the temerity to suggest that Thomas Leverous, the tutor and former protector of the young heir of Kildare, should be appointed to Cashel or Ossory. "For learning, discretion, and good living," he wrote, "he is the meekest man in this realm, and best able to preach both in the English and the Irish tongue.
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