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But to propose marriage to a weather-beaten haunter of hotels like Lady Sophia Entwistle, and to reveal his identity to her, and to allow her to accept his proposal the thing had been unimaginably inept! And now he was free, for he was dead. He was conscious of a chill in the spine as he dwelt on the awful fate which he had escaped.
He had other motives too for shrinking from such expressions of friendliness as he had reason to anticipate from his host. But he did not expect anything so disconcerting as the proposal which the Count actually laid before him when he unwillingly entered his presence.
I will give him my answer before morning." Simon said to the company: "Men, will you sell your wheat to Ambrose Doane at a dollar-seventy-five?" The question broke the spell of silence. There could be no mistake that the proposal was successful. A chorus of acclamations filled the room. "Very good!" said Simon. "I will talk with Ambrose Doane and try to make him trade with us."
In 1772 another proposal was made to Priestley. Lord Shelburne, desiring a "literary companion," had been brought into communication with Priestley by the good offices of a friend of both, Dr. Price; and offered him the nominal post of librarian, with a good house and appointments, and an annuity in case of the termination of the engagement.
Foedor flung himself into them with loud sobs. Then the general questioned him about his daughter, and Foedor answered, as he had promised, that Vaninka was ignorant of everything, and that the proposal came from him alone, without her knowledge. This assurance calmed the general: he had feared that he was making two people wretched.
"If I were to." she said, "I must bring Liddy too. Might I not?" Troy looked far away. "I don't see why you want to bring her." he said coldly. An unconscious look of assent in Bathsheba's eyes betrayed that something more than his coldness had made her also feel that Liddy Would be superfluous in the suggested scene. She had felt it, even whilst making the proposal.
Bob stated in his own way that having, since landing, taken into consideration his father's wish that he should renounce a seafaring life and become a partner in the mill, he had decided to agree to the proposal; and with that object in view he would return to Overcombe in three days from the time of writing.
A few days later and a cry went up from the walls, "A white flag! a white flag!" and for a moment a wild hope surged up in the hearts of the soldiers that the enemy had grown tired of the game of war, and had some proposal to make. The messenger brought a letter. It was not from the French commander himself, though it was delivered with a courteous message from him.
This project, already entertained in 1602 by the Grand Pensioner Oldenbarneveldt, was very much favoured by Cardinal Richelieu, who, in 1634, signed a secret convention with the United Provinces, according to which such a proposal would be made to the people of the Southern Netherlands.
Miss March rose. "I should greatly like to hear your stream and its wonderful singing." Can we hear it from the bottom of this field?" "Not clearly; we had better go into the wood." For I knew John would like that, though he was too great a hypocrite to second my proposal by a single word. Miss March was more single-minded, or else had no reason for being the contrary.
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