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You don't owe me anything and I don't owe you anything. That's the way Gerty puts it, and she told me to tell you so." "If if she don't want me I'm agreeable," ses Bob, in a choking voice. "We'll call it quits, and next time I tumble overboard I 'ope you won't be handy." He took Gerty's photygraph out of 'is box and handed it to George. "You've got more right to it now than wot I 'ave," he ses.
He was disposed to do his duty so far as a man can do his duty, who imagines himself so entirely lifted above his fellow creatures as to owe no obligation except to exact their obedience and to personify to them the will of the Almighty. To Philip and the Pope he was ever faithful.
It is essential that you should be wholly frank with me." "As I have always been. I can't be anything else. Anyhow, I owe you so much that you have the right to ask me what you will.... There it is, the fatal thing," she added. Her eyes were raised to the red umbrella which had nearly carried her over into the cauldron of the Zambesi Falls.
It is to the emancipation of the conscience of humanity from the paralysing guidance of the great ecclesiastical corporations of the past that we owe that famous band of scholars, who, antecedently convinced on moral grounds that such conceptions of the Divine were sheer profanities, set about an exhaustive study of the origins and text of the biblical literature, together with an equally painstaking research into the history of kindred religions, which has resulted in the vindication of the root doctrine of prophetic and ethical religion the absolute and unlimited sovereignty of the moral law, and the consequent identification of morality with religion.
"What's the use of being mealy-mouthed? I owe you five hundred dollars. Every dollar beyond that you get from me you rob me of; and it doesn't matter whether it is a pistol or a writ that you threaten me with." "You persist in a violent tone." "I can't talk to suit you, and I shall stop. We shall never agree. I'll tell you, though, what I will do.
But the point at which Tennyson's memory is blended with that of Gordon is the point of sympathy with the neglected poor. It is to his wise advice, and to affection for Gordon, that we owe the Gordon training school for poor boys, a good school, and good boys come out of that academy.
He regarded the transaction which led to it as a shrewd business operation, to be chuckled over, rather than repented of; and he had no idea of spoiling it all, by undoing the bargain. In these lessons, the duties which we owe to God, to ourselves, and to one another, were explained and enforced.
"Captain Drayton," said Clifford huskily, "you have given me no chance to thank you for the service you rendered me. I want to do so now " "Don't," said Drayton. "It gave me great pleasure to be of service. Why need we speak of it further?" "But I owe you my life, sir," cried Clifford. "Nay," smiled Drayton. "You owe it to your sister. I did it for Harriet."
Both succeeded at first and failed at last. But both succeeded at last, even after the failure. If at this moment we owe thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte for the armies of united France, we also owe some thanks to Louis Bonaparte for the armies of united Italy.
Is it to that they owe their immunity? Because one could leave them about like safety matches? Ah, here's another I remember I wrote that the day after we went skating together for the first time. How very odd! Ventnor. What? Mrs. Dale. Why, it's the most curious thing I had a letter of this kind to do the other day, in the novel I'm at work on now the letter of a woman who is just just beginning
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