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"He is so weak and sick that he can't stand to be scolded, so I have come to " She hesitated. He shoved himself back and looked hard at her, and his eyebrows stuck out fiercely. "To ask me what?" His voice was dry and rasping. "What can you ask me? To let him come here to see you? No, daughter. I can't permit that. And I don't intend to be cruel when I say this.
Permit me again to moralize upon this fashionable practice of ruining the family, for the health of the soul: except some lawful creditor puts in a claim, which justice ought to allow, a son has the same right to an estate, after the death of his father, as that father had before him.
The Marriage of Figaro will no doubt have taught you to put your wife's chamber at a great height from the ground. All celibates are Cherubins. Your means, doubtless, will permit your wife to have a dressing-room, a bath-room, and a room for her chambermaid.
Dorothy was sitting by his bedside, and as Nicholas Bury stepped gently forward she silently arose, and, with a heart too full to permit her to speak, she offered him her hand as a token of welcome, and led him up to the chair upon which she had just been sitting.
If you please, Pelagéya Egórovna, permit me to talk confidentially with your daughter about our own affairs. For shame, for shame! He, he, he! There! I suppose you want to marry a young fellow? Now, just listen to what I'm going to tell you; I'll tell you the truth straight out. I don't like to deceive any one, and have no need to. Will you listen, eh? LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA. Yes. KÓRSHUNOV. Good!
The public at home chafed at this sudden and unexpected turn of affairs; but the General, constant to his own fixed purpose, did not permit his strength to be wasted, and his cavalry to be again disorganised, by flying excursions, but waited grimly until he should be strong enough to strike straight at Pretoria. In this short period of depression there came one gleam of light from the west.
Unless we protect the Indians and permit them so far as possible to lead their own natural lives, most of them will soon disappear. In the seventeenth century it appeared likely that France would before long control the northern and interior portion of North America. La Salle discovered the Ohio River, traversed the Great Lakes, and descended the Mississippi River to its mouth.
My thoughts had run away with me. "I can't understand you," said Margaret, in the profoundest distress. "I can't understand how it is you are coming to see things like this." The moods of a thinking man in politics are curiously evasive and difficult to describe. Neither the public nor the historian will permit the statesman moods.
"I would respectfully call your attention, monsieur, to the fact that your general in command gave us a permit to proceed to Dieppe; and I do not think we have done anything to deserve this harshness at your hands." "I don't choose that's all. You may go." They bowed, and retired. The afternoon was wretched.
I am, perhaps, the ideal of that which you would not be. But no man will say that my lot is not enviable." "Are you happy?" Laodice asked in a low voice. "Are you?" the Greek returned. "No," she went on after a pause. "A woman has the less happy part in life, though the greater one, if she will permit herself to make it great. It was not her purpose on earth to be happy, but to make happy."
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