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Both of these facts are simple, and perhaps, uninteresting; but they serve to exhibit a characteristic of the lower classes of Mexicans. Doubtless, such paltry thieving is the result of a want of animal courage, easily discernible by the close observer of the Mexican race. Of course there are many exceptions to this statement.

It was the atmosphere I breathed." "Day after day the watchful girl observed the life of a student its scholarly tastes, its high ideals, its scorn of worldliness and paltry aims or petty indulgences, and forever its magnificent habits of work." "At sixteen, I remember, there came to me a distinct arousing or awakening to the intellectual life. As I look back, I see it in a flash-light.

Considering that France had been at the mercy of the allies, she had few just grounds of complaint against them. Perfidious Albion yielded up all her French colonial conquests, except Mauritius, Tobago, and St. Lucia. Britons grumbled at the paltry gains brought by a war that had cost more than £600,000,000: but Castlereagh justified the policy of conciliation.

You think of nothing but envelopesone is enough. I’ve no witnesses ... except one, perhaps,” he smiled thoughtfully. “Who is your witness?” “He has a tail, your excellency, and that would be irregular! Le diable n’existe point! Don’t pay attention: he is a paltry, pitiful devil,” he added suddenly.

Do you think I will put my wine against your paltry water?" "Don't call it paltry," replied the Pythagorean; "it is delicious. You know not how it elevates the spirits and, so to speak, philosophizes the whole system of man. I am beginning to feel extremely happy."

The object, alike paltry and impossible, of this ambition, bespoke the narrow mind. His estates were regarded by him as private property; measures affecting the temporal and eternal interests of millions were regarded as domestic affairs, and the eye of the master was considered the only one which could duly superintend these estates and those interests.

There is much to be written in them since Midwinter has been here, that concerns me nearly. "Let me begin with what I hate most to remember, and so be the sooner done with it let me begin with the paltry string of falsehoods which I told him about my family troubles. "What can be the secret of this man's hold on me? How is it that he alters me so that I hardly know myself again?

Those who had read it testify that it far excelled in liveliness and readableness the old dry chronicles, but was written withal in a style thoroughly impure and even degenerating into puerility; as indeed the few remaining fragments exhibit a paltry painting of horrible details, and a number of words newly coined or derived from the language of conversation.

I know the law beggars well; they won't turn out afore sunrise. He stopped at a paltry alehouse, where we were admitted, and soon were busy with a much better supper than I had ever imagined they could have produced; but my new friend ordered right and left, with a tone of authority, and everybody in the house appeared at his beck and command.

Why not take up your abode there instead of in a paltry lodging in the town? Give sumptuous entertainments, make it necessary for all the world to attend them, exclude, of course, this Captain Clifford; you will then meet Lucy without a rival.