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On one occasion some blunt answer of a witness had provoked a laugh coming no one knew whence. The judge turned to the gallery and looked up sternly "I cannot conceive why men and women women especially should come crowding in to hear such a case as this; but if I hear another laugh I shall clear the court."
Lord Brougham, actuated, as was asserted by some, by personal feeling against Lord Durham, protested against this act in the face of the country. His speech on the occasion was one of the most powerful he ever delivered. August 9, 1838. Inadequacy of our Navy.
She had meant to be good to him, but the favour would have gone further with him had she made more of it. Then they went up stairs. Who does not know the questions that were asked and that were answered? On this occasion they were asked and answered with matter-of-fact useful earnestness. The papers on the walls were perhaps old and ugly; but she did not mind it if they were so.
Miss Bellenden's intercession, therefore, had, on this occasion, little or no chance to be listened to.
You must be aware that I have never in the slightest way given you occasion to believe that I " "I must speak!" burst in the impetuous Zephyr. "My feelings forbid silence! Great Heavens! Miss Newt, you really have no idea I am sure you have no idea you can not have any idea of the ardor with which for a long, long time I have " "Mr.
Their direction was now towards the south, through a perfect labyrinth of mean and dirty streets. Twice the driver was obliged to ask his way. On the second occasion the sergeant, putting his head out of the window to stop the cab, cried, "Hullo! there's something up." They got out in front of a long low rambling house, a complete contrast to the modern buildings about it.
Alexander, upon one occasion, transported with rage, selected a band of one thousand musketeers, partly Spanish, partly Irish, and ordered an assault upon those insolent boatmen.
"Forget it!" interrupted Ned. "That will all right itself." Andy consented to accompany the gleeful, expectant throng. They had arranged the night before to hold an amateur circus exhibition "on their own hook." One boy had agreed to provide the "fiery steed" for the occasion. Alf Warren was to be property man, and donate the blazing hoop. They soon reached the corner of the ten-acre lot.
It is not given to the girls of to-day to have any thing like the magnificent opportunities of the young Pulcheria. But duty in many a form faces them again and again, while not unfrequently the occasion comes for sacrifice of comfort or for devotion to a trust.
Indeed, I was extremely anxious, though at home, till I heard the result of the application, for I dread to think of the uneasiness which such an affair would occasion the amiable Mrs. Mirvan.
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