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"But it pleases me that you are so ready and willing to do whatever you find most pleasing to your father," he added, pressing affectionately the hand she had put into his. "Are you not afraid my father will make me miserably conceited giving me so much more commendation than I deserve?" she asked with a roguish look and pleased laugh.
"Yes, I knew that," answered Rachel, indifferently, although her heart thumped within her bosom. "I forget if I said that the Inkosi was to be brought straight here when he arrives. If not, let it be known that such is my command. The King can receive him afterwards if it pleases him to do so, as probably we shall not depart until the next day."
As for Grace, she began to feel troubled; she did not perhaps wish there and then to unambitiously devote her life to Giles Winterborne, but she was conscious of more and more uneasiness at the possibility of being the social hope of the family. "You would like to have more honor, if it pleases me?" asked her father, in continuation of the subject. Despite her feeling she assented to this.
"That may be all very well for Horace," said the Doctor; "but what about Molly? When a girl has been looking forward to marrying and having a house of her own, it is not so pleasant for her to have all her prospects destroyed." "Then she can marry Mr. Norris, if she pleases." "Indeed!
"You know not what you do. The wretch you confide in has sworn to hang you. As I hope for mercy, I speak the truth! let him deny it if he can." "Pshaw!" said Wild. "I could hang him now if I liked. But he may remain with you if he pleases: I sha'n't hinder him." "You hear, my son," said the widow eagerly. "Choose between good and evil; between him and me.
Felix after hearing me bade the Jews return to Jerusalem. I will deliver no sentence until I have conferred with Lysias, he said. The Jews returned discomfited, and Felix said to my jailer, let him be relieved of his chains and be free to see his friends and disciples and to preach what he pleases.
The conglomeration of personalities effaces the identity alike of the statesman and the artist, the savant and the cyprian. No six-inch rules hedge the shade of the trees and limit the glory of the grass. The ouvrier can bring his brood and his basket and have his picnic where he pleases.
You treat me, Sir Julien, as it pleases me to be treated. It is for that reason, I am sure it must be for that reason that I find some pleasure in being with you, whereas the society of any other man is a constant irritation to me." Julien hesitated. "You know," he began, "I am not naturally a curious person.
"All that, Aberdeen, only shows the necessity of exterminating these cursed presbyterians. We shall have no peace in Scotland till they are swept clean away. It is not to be endured that a King shall not rule his own kingdom as he pleases.
If he marry beneath himself, his low wife is immediately raised by her wedding-ring to an equality with the high and mighty husband her name is forgotten in her title her vulgar relations are left in convenient obscurity: the husband never thinks of taking notice of them; and the wife, of course, may let it alone if she pleases.
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