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Therefore I knew you would not have quitted it, if alive; and if you were dead " Stephanu shrugged his shoulders. "I was in a hurry, you understand; and in a hurry a man must take a few risks." "I am not saying you did ill," growled Marc'antonio, slightly mollified. "The Princess said so, however.
And yet it flattered him, and the assurance of the woman's love had in it a certain candied sweetness which prevented him from destroying the paper instantly, as he ought to have done. Could his wife have read all his mind in the matter her anger would have been somewhat mollified. In spite of the candied sweetness he hated the correspondence. It had been the woman's doing and not his.
Captain Nikita Rykov, to be sure—a Muscovite but a good fellow—allowed himself to be mollified; but this was of no avail, since he himself had to obey Major Plut.160
Lawton now interfered to preserve the peace, and assured the surgeon that he had already dispatched the proper persons in quest of food for the party. A little mollified with this explanation, the operator soon forgot his hunger, and declared his intention of proceeding to business at once. "And where is your subject?" asked Lawton. "The peddler," said the other, glancing a look at the signpost.
The lumberman, mollified by the tribute, returned to his dinner, and the Supervisor continued: "McGinnis told you that cutting down the best trees available for timber is the most important part of forest work. It's not. The most important thing is keeping the forest at its best.
She, on her part, contrasting her own burning sensations with this quaint, innocent devotion to Art and passion for music, felt in a manner guilty; and whenever he stormed with additional violence, she became suppliant, and seemed to bend and have regrets. Mr. Pericles would then say, with mollified irritability: "You will come to Italy to-morrow? Ze day after? not at all?"
He must clinch the deal with as little delay as possible if he would escape from Foss River and the ruinous attacks of Retief. This thought was ever present with him and urged him to press the old man hard. If John Allandale would not be reasonable, he, Lablache, must force an acceptance of his terms from him. The rancher was mollified. His dulled brain suddenly saw a loop-hole of escape.
But they were not held back by the decency of the people of the province, nor were they mollified by the emperor's affability, but they behaved very insolently, wrecking palaces, burning public buildings, tearing the roofs of churches that were covered with lead, and then offering to sell the lead back to the Greeks.
Imogen rubbed her head deprecatingly against the small pink shoulder, and uttered a soft and apologetic "moo;" but Star was not ready to be mollified yet. "And you know it's my own book, too!" she continued, reproachfully. "My own Willum Shakespeare, that I love more well, no! not more than I love you, Imogen, but just as much, and almost nearly half as much as I love Daddy Captain.
"Vraiment!" the little fellow answered, a trifle mollified, his anger oozing out at the tips of his fingers. "But then Ah! It is Henri, eh? I did not recognize you earlier. Then what do you advise, Henri you, who have tasted prison life in Germany?" "Yes, yes! Let Henri tell us," called a number of the others; for already our hero had won no small reputation amongst his fellows.
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