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"Sire," said he, "old age is boastful; and it is pardonable for old men to praise themselves when others no longer do it. It is very possible I said that; but the fact is, sire, I am very much fatigued, and request permission to retire." "Monsieur," said the king, advancing towards the officer with a gesture full of majesty, "you are not assigning me the true reason.
But a great man as, perhaps, you do not know attains his normal condition only through the inspiration of one great idea. As a friend of Mr. Hollingsworth, and, at the same time, a calm observer, I must tell you that he seems to me such a man. But you are very pardonable for fancying him ridiculous. Doubtless, he is so to you!
But though I don't mean to vindicate what has happened, you will not, I hope, be displeased if I say my mother is much more pardonable than she seems to be, for the same mistake she made with you, she would have been as apt to have made with a princess; it was not, therefore, from any want of respect, but merely from thinking my brother might marry as high as he pleased, and believing no lady would refuse him, if he would but have the courage to speak."
"You would turn our fair fields and limpid ahem skies into the joyless waste of a London pavement, or one of your horrid dissecting-rooms!" "I don't see the point of your simile, Miss Dabstreak," answered Cutter, with pardonable bluntness. "Besides, that is philosophy, and not science." "What is the difference. Mr. Griggs?" asked Hermione, turning to me.
Possibly he might be the victim of the latter and more pardonable state, and so thinking she gave him her hand. 'Good-bye, Nevil. I may tell papa to expect you tomorrow? 'Do, and tell him to prepare for a field-day. She smiled. 'A sham fight that will not win you a vote! I hope you will find your guests this evening agreeable companions. Beauchamp half-shrugged involuntarily.
So many famous historic events, indeed, have taken place within the precincts of the forest that the committee of "Protection Artistique" is pardonable in claiming that "Fontainebleau Forest ought to be ranked with those national historic monuments which must at all hazards be preserved for the admiration of artists and tourists," as well as of patriotic Frenchmen.
No man can hope for redemption by that blood which he yet counteth an unholy thing. Nor will God ever suffer such an one to repent, who has, after light and profession of him, thus horribly and devil-like contemned and trampled upon him. True, words and wars and blasphemies against this Son of man are pardonable; but then they must be done ignorantly and in unbelief.
As for the hedgehog, it was just a hedgehog, which meant nothing unless, indeed, it was a pledge of friendship, the sign of forgetting of offences and so on. At all events, it was a joke, and, of course, a most pardonable and innocent one. We may as well remark that the general had guessed perfectly accurately.
It was vanity, of the most pardonable kind, indeed, but vanity nevertheless which had led him to embark upon his dangerous enterprise not in the determination to accomplish for the sake of accomplishing, still less in the direct desire for wealth as an ultimate object, but in the almost boyish longing to show to his own people that there was more in him than they suspected.
"Hervey declares that you murdered Bolton, stole the manuscript from him, and concealed it in your room," said Archie succinctly. "I can't suggest any other reason for its presence in the room," observed the American with a grim smile. "If I'm wrong, perhaps this almighty aristocrat will correct me." Random was about to do so, and with some pardonable heat, when he was anticipated by Donna Inez.
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