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She looked about her, without answering, up and down the little terrace. The Casino at Blanquais was a much more modest place of reunion than the Conversation-house at Baden-Baden.
The result of all these actions is uncertain, so we take that course from which we believe that good results may be hoped for. Who can guarantee a harvest to the sower, a harbour to the sailor, victory to the soldier, a modest wife to the husband, dutiful children to the father? We proceed in the way in which reason, not absolute truth, directs us.
On the other hand, she came to this school to learn, and not to play; and the modest and more plainly dressed girls, whose fathers did not sell by the cargo, or keep victualling establishments for some hundreds of people, considered her as rather in sympathy with them than with the daughters of the rough-and-tumble millionnaires who were grappling and rolling over each other in the golden dust of the great city markets.
Above all, she wondered if she should ever see him again. But that was not likely. Miss Prentice came home in a week, and in another week the school would open. Mr. Gordon had sent the ticket for Nancy's fare to Clintondale. Her modest trunk was packed. Miss Prentice bade her a perfunctory good-bye.
"He certainly has accomplished a great deal," the usually reticent Gus offered. "And yet he seems to be very modest about it," was Cora's contribution. "Of course, he is; every man who does really big things is never conceited," declared Bill. "Oh, I don't know. How about Napoleon?" queried Dot. "Napoleon? All he ever did was to get up a big army and kill people and grab a government.
"Who is that magnificent woman?" asked Maria Consuelo, as Corona got in. "My mother," said Orsino. "My father is getting in now." "There comes my carriage! Please help me." A modest hired brougham made its appearance. Orsino hoped that Madame d'Aranjuez would offer him a seat. But he was mistaken. "I am afraid mine is miles away," said Donna Tullia.
'Curious, mused the other dispassionately, as she stood with one foot on the fender. 'He hardly strikes one as that kind of man. 'Oh, he has certainly changed a great deal. Miss Barfoot went on to speak of her cousin's resolve to pursue no calling. 'His means are very modest.
How brilliant is the world you are entering, how peaceful the retreat where I shall end my modest career! In the Castle of Maucombe, which is so well known to you by description that I shall say no more of it, I found my room almost exactly as I left it; only now I can enjoy the splendid view it gives of the Gemenos valley, which my childish eyes used to see without comprehending.
And indeed, if asked, I don't know whom, at this moment, I should recommend. Mr Slope, even Mr Slope, felt at present rather abashed. He hardly knew how to frame his little request in language sufficiently modest.
Leger's flight back to Canada, but of the capture of the whole British army at Saratoga that the men of the Mohawk began to comprehend what they had really done. To my way of thinking, they have ever since been unduly modest about this truly historic achievement. As I wrote long ago, we of New York have chosen to make money, and to allow our neighbors to make histories.
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