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"I confess," he replied with much hesitation, "that I do not understand, that I cannot possibly explain to myself, why you do me the honor" "To consult you? Pardon me; I think you understand me perfectly well. Have they not promised you Miss Ville-Handry's hand?" "The count has permitted me to hope" "He has pledged his word, sir, under certain conditions. My dear count has told me every thing.
"Love her!" repeated the Viscount, "but you've seen her but once in your life." "True," said Barnabas, "but then I mean to see her many times, henceforth." "Ah! the deuce you do!" "Yes," answered Barnabas. "I shall possibly marry her some day."
Possibly my father may have succeeded to the title and, if for no other reason, he may then be willing to grant you an allowance, on condition that you do not return to England; as he would know that it would be nothing short of a scandal, that the wife of one of his sons was trying to earn her bread in this country. "Above all, dear, I ask you not to destroy these letters.
That the terms of his letter are ambiguous and obscure, such as a guilty man might have recourse to in order to cover his guilt, but such as no innocent man, from whom nothing was required but to clear his innocence by giving plain answers to plain questions, could possibly have made use of.
Countess Anna was to be among that company assembled at the Castle of Sonnenberg in Meran; and if, while introducing Vittoria there with a discreet and exciting reserve, he at the same time handed over the assassin of Count Paul, a fine harvest of praise and various pleasant forms of female passion were to be looked for a rich vista of a month's intrigue; at the end of it possibly his wealthy lady, thoroughly tamed, for a wife, and redoubled triumph over his comrades.
It is evident that they and possible that Jefferson Davis had hoped that when face to face with them he would change his mind, and possibly Blair's talk had served to encourage this hope. They failed, but the conversation continued in a frank and friendly manner.
They were all afraid to go to bed that is, all except possibly Mr. Townsend. Mrs. Townsend declared firmly that she for one would leave that awful house and go back to Townsend Centre whether he came or not, unless they all stayed together and watched, and Mr. Townsend yielded.
But if you want an explanation of this strange career, if you really wish to know how one man could possibly rule so many people for so many years by the sheer force of his will, do not read the books that have been written about him. Their authors either hated the Emperor or loved him. You will learn many facts, but it is more important to "feel history" than to know it.
All that seemed to me simple enough; Julian's absence was the only difficulty, and the only way I could possibly account for it, was that he had followed the murderer." "It was very imprudent," Mr. Henderson said gravely. "Very; but it was just the sort of thing Julian would have done." "But, however far he went, he ought to be back before this." "That is what I am anxious about, Mr. Henderson.
And, suddenly, the contest which lay before him appeared to him under a new aspect, bathed in a broad philosophic air; a light serene and transforming, like the light of the Umbrian evening. Was it not possibly true that he had no future place as the leader of English Liberalism?
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