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If I had not been aware that this was a woman of great passion, that she had long loved the Marquis de V , that she must have known I was aware of it, I should have believed myself in good luck; but she knew the condition of my heart, and the Comtesse de . I therefore rejected all presumptuous ideas and bided my time.
"'Twas dastardly to take him so," said Molyneux. "Whatever his deservings, I'm nigh of a mind to offer him a rescue in the Duke's face." "Truss him up, lads," said the heavy voice. "Clear the way in front of the coach. There sit those whom we avenge upon a presumptuous lackey. Now, Whiffen, you have a fair audience, lay on and baste him."
I'll always love you for this, and respect you, too, even though what you suggest is impossible. 'Presumptuous'? You don't know what a big, fine thing you just proved yourself capable of!" Her voice was not quite steady.
It is both mean and presumptuous to add your torture to his! 'In general I'll allow that it would be, Ellen, she continued; 'but what misery laid on Heathcliff could content me, unless I have a hand in it? I'd rather he suffered less, if I might cause his sufferings and he might know that I was the cause. Oh, I owe him so much. On only one condition can I hope to forgive him.
"I only gave you a few caresses, for which I am now sorry, as you are frightened of me, and persist in locking your door." "I don't mistrust you, but I have told you my reasons for locking the door. I think that you must mistrust me, as you won't go to bed while I am in the room." "You must think me very presumptuous. I will go to bed, but you must not leave me without giving me a kiss."
We have been living on our capital, nay, on our credit, and have long since overdrawn our account. Our successes in the past, sometimes the result of fortuitous circumstances, more often of the blunders of our rivals, inspire a presumptuous confidence in successes for the future and a conviction that come what may we are destined to muddle through.
Do you not know the Lady of Love? Do you not know her power, her miracles? Queen of high hearts, ruler of earth's destinies, life and death are subject to her. She weaves them out of pain and pleasure. She can change hate into love. Presumptuous, I took in hand the work of death. The Lady of Love wrested it from me. The death-devoted she took into her keeping, she seized the work in her own hands.
Then it further transpired that all wished to be "in it," and no one wanted to act the part of photographer. At this juncture Cabot stepped forward, and lifting his cap, said: "I am somewhat of a photographer, and with your permission it would afford me great pleasure to take a picture of so charming a group." For a moment the girls looked at the presumptuous young stranger in silence.
We know there are some in these days who ask the question "Are you saved?" meaning by that, "Have you the eternal salvation?" It is a presumptuous question, and if answered at all is answered presumptuously. It is forestalling the everlasting things. Safety as we speak of it is not that. But peril tracks the course of the young, peril in some way perhaps of deeper hazard than our fathers knew.
But Richard imagined that something in his look had displeased her, and was ashamed, for he had ever been, and ever would be, sensitive as a child to rebuke. Even when it was mistaken or unjust he would always find within him some ground whereon it MIGHT have alighted. 'Forgive me, Dorothy, he said, supposing she had found his look presumptuous.
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