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Could the King be once brought they said, to promise the Netherlands his protection, there was not the least fear but that he would keep his word. He would use all the means within his power; "yea, he would take the crown from his head," rather than turn back.
"Very well, you beautiful, unkind thing," he said. "But if you do not want to marry me you had better say so at once, and I will release you from your promise. Because when the moment comes afterwards for our crossing of swords there will be no question as to who is to be master I tell you that now."
She tried to get an unqualified promise; and failing in that, when they had nearly got to the train she suddenly made a complete surrender. Let him do what he pleased but let him remember that she loved him, that she needed him, that she could not do without him. No matter what he might do, no matter what people might say about him, she believed in him, she would stand by him.
He picks up friends by every road-side, without much troubling himself as to who they are, I promise you." The young man's face grew dark with anger; but the idea of self-respect, far less of pride, was necessarily strange to a servant of Carew's.
It could answer no earthly purpose, and would only send abroad idle and unpleasant rumors throughout the country. Will you promise this?" "Of course I promise it," replied Barney; "what object could I gain by repeatin' it?" "None whatsoever. Well, then, be silent on the subject, and let us reach home as soon as we can."
We still have the furs, it's true, but there's the promise of a different kind of frost in the air now, a black frost that creeps into the heart which no furs can keep warm.... We still have the furs, as I've already said, and I've been looking them over. They're so plentiful in this country that I've rather lost my respect for them.
Your promise is conditional; whereas my dismissal would be certain." "But I have no competitors." "You think so," said Antonin, "but some one is sure to turn up; you may rely on that." "Why doesn't my aunt come, when she knows I am on a gridiron!" exclaimed Giguet, suddenly. "These three hours are like three years!"
"Oh, child!" said her brother, "promise me never to run such risks again." "But you mustn't scold," she pleaded; "think of the danger I was in! Oh! it was horrible to feel the water closing over my head to go down down!"
The old man passed his hand across his forehead, looked at Mulrady, and dropped his eyes. "It is not mine," he said simply. "That will do," said Mulrady, gravely. "And you will not speak of this again?" said the old man, timidly. "I promise you not until I have some more evidence."
There had been no promise that she would be beautiful, and she was not. There had been promise of distinction, and she seemed to have fulfilled it. For a second she paused on the threshold rather diffidently. Then she smiled as she had when she greeted him from the veranda as he came up the terrace steps.
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