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He objected to her accent, her unconventional expressions, her little tricks of manner; while on almost every subject her point of view appeared to be diametrically opposed to his own. In her company he would be often jarred, annoyed, and discomfited, but of a certainty he would never be bored!

Twenty peas dropped one by one; also I counted twenty White Ladies. And, after I had counted twenty, yet another passed." "But how could that be?" objected the Prioress. "If twenty went, but twenty could return. Who should be the twenty-first?" Then old Mary Antony leaned forward, crossing herself. "Sister Agatha," she whispered, tremulously. "Poor Sister Agatha returned to us again."

A council was immediately summoned, and a proposal made that the King should flee by sea to Bordeaux; but the Duke of Exeter objected that to quit the kingdom in such circumstances was to abdicate the throne. Let them proceed to the army at Conway. There they might bid defiance to the enemy; or at all events, as the sea would still be open, might thence set sail to Guienne.

II, And if it is still objected, that even in that case there could be no sufficient way of propagating the miracle, with its evidence, to other times or places, the answer must be, 1st. That supposing the purpose merely polemic, that purpose is answered without such a propagation. 2dly.

The wife of a small farmer naively remarked about the tithes, 'You know it is such a lot to pay, and we never go there to church; you know it is too far to walk. It was not the doctrine to which she objected it was the paying for nothing; paying and never having anything. The farmers, staunch upholders of Church and State, are always grumbling because the clergy are constantly begging.

I ended by observing, that I considered it my duty to acquaint her with the circumstance; as if she objected to the match, or had other views for her niece, an immediate stop ought to be put to their correspondence. The old lady was very much astonished at the information, and very angry that her niece should have presumed to make an acquaintance without her knowledge.

I should call it, if the word weren't so for ladies'-maids, the most 'elegant' thing I know." "My dear child," the Duchess objected, "what you describe as making her ugliness serve is what I should describe as concealing none of her beauty.

"An hour for your majesty's carriages," said D'Artagnan; "the roads are tolerably good." The king looked at him. "And a quarter of an hour for the king," he hastened to add. "We should arrive by daylight?" said Louis XIV. "But the billeting of the king's military escort," objected Colbert, softly, "will make his majesty lose all the advantage of his speed, however quick he may be."

They'd attack the eyes." "But that doesn't explain how the bees ever began to make humans work for them," objected Van Emmon. The doctor thought for a few minutes. "Let's see. Suppose we assume that a certain human once happened to be in the neighborhood of a hive, just when it was attacked by a drove of ants. Ants are great lovers of honey, you know.

Here I am the representative of my country, and here, on neutral ground " "Neutral ground?" objected Colonel Murphy; "I beg your pardon. This, Captain Servadac, is English territory. Do you not see the English flag?" and, as he spoke, he pointed with national pride to the British standard floating over the top of the island.