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It was a noble speech, and changed Will in my eyes; and I thanked him with warmth. He of all that company had the courage to oppose his Lordship! Mr. Claude was called in and, as is the custom in such cases, was told that some of us would play awhile above. He was asked for his private room.
"Well, with all respect, sir, I think the opinion of the Bengal men, who know the people and the country, ought to have outweighed the opinion of strangers. Still, it would be difficult to oppose Colonel Clive." Further conversation was cut short by the arrival of a messenger summoning Desmond to attend the colonel. "Where is he?" he asked. "Under a clump of trees beyond the camp, sir.
However, from caprice, the love of showing his power, or from some unknown reason, the lieutenant-colonel made it his pleasure to oppose the exchange, and said that it could not be done; though, as Captain Henry said, every body knew, that by his writing a line to Lord Skreene it would have been accomplished directly.
If the troops fail me, I have my brother of Spain, on whom I shall call to defend our menaced thrones, and if I lack a minister to carry out my will, he can lend me the Duke of Alba." "But in that case, sire, we should have Germans to oppose to your Spaniards," said one of his hearers.
But the wooers of my mother are powerful men men to make the City folk afraid. And if I should oppose them I would assuredly be slain in my father's house, for how could I hope to overcome so many? 'What wouldst thou have me do for thee, Telemachus? said the swineherd. 'I would have thee go to my mother, friend Eumæus, Telemachus said, 'and let her know that I am safe-returned from Pylos.
They were determined, they said, to march to Moscow. They wished to ascertain for themselves whether Peter was dead or alive, and if alive, what had become of him. They therefore were going on, and, if General Gordon and his troops attempted to oppose them, they would fight it out and see which was the strongest.
Once there, she would be under the guidance and persuasion of my mother, who could influence her to remain till the Count's death removed all danger. "You must not refuse, Madame," I went on. "God has shown that He does not desire your death, and it must be His will that you should accept this plan, so clear and simple. Speak, Madame!" "I know not. I have no strength, no will, to oppose further.
By this circumstance those brethren, who considered it scriptural that all ought to be baptized before being received into fellowship, were confirmed in their views; and as to brother Craik and me, it made us, at least, still more question, whether, those brethren might not be right; and we felt therefore, that in such a state of mind we could not oppose them.
If the forest were mine, on the word of honour of a Grontovsky, I should not oppose your agreeable pleasure. But whose fault is it that I am in a dependent position?" The lanky individual sighed and shrugged his shoulders. I began arguing, getting hot and protesting, but the more loudly and impressively I spoke the more mawkish and sugary Grontovsky's face became.
It was a noble speech, and changed Will in my eyes; and I thanked him with warmth. He of all that company had the courage to oppose his Lordship! Mr. Claude was called in and, as is the custom in such cases, was told that some of us would play awhile above. He was asked for his private room.
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