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Many a night he had lain awake unknown to his wife. But so far he had only dared to conceive the plan and fit it prospectively to the administrative skeleton; all of which counted for nothing, he must gain the ear of a minister capable of appreciating his ideas. Rabourdin's success depended on the tranquil condition of political affairs, which up to this time were still unsettled.
"None but a Catholic becomes my wife!" cried the young count. "I solemnly give you my oath to that effect, father." "And you actually suppose that the Emperor will bestow upon me the same favor he has conferred upon Fürstenberg, Lobkowitz, and Liechtenstein?" "I am empowered to promise it prospectively, most gracious sir.
While these ideas were running in my mind, and I was making comparisons between Cecilia de Clare and Susannah Temple not much in favour of the former and looking forward prospectively to the meeting with my father, the doubts as to my reception in society colouring everything with the most sombre tints, the door opened, and in walked Harcourt, announced by the waiter.
Shall I repeat it to him?" "No, please don't, Colonel Monk. I did not mean it for compliment, only for an answer." "Your wish is a command; but may I make an exception in favour of Miss Porson, who prospectively owns the nice face in question? She would be delighted to know it so highly rated;" and he glanced at her sharply, the look of a man of the world who is trying to read a woman's heart.
And the Parliament of Paris formally and prospectively proclaimed any election of a foreigner null and void, and sent deputies to Mayenne urging him never to consent to the election of the Infanta.
To the imaginative girl, half child, half poet, her marriage had prospectively seemed merely an accident of the trivial outside existence which surrounded without penetrating her true being; and the sharpness of the rude awakening from this childish misconception still pierced the woman's proud soul.
Only one gleam of comfort appeared to visit Lady Ulverstone's breast, and thence to settle prospectively over the future of the world, a second son had been born to Lord Castleton; to that son would descend the estates of Ulverstone and the representation of that line distinguished by Trevanion and enriched by Trevanion's wife. Never was there a child of such promise!
"All those months and months, when you were at an unimaginable distance from me, actually and morally, and prospectively, do you think I had no chance to exercise myself in the lesson of submission? I fought out that problem, Daisy." "Were you in Washington the winter of '61?" I asked, changing the subject; for I could not bear it.
Dunstan's to his memory and also to that of her second husband, Sir Richard Champion, and prospectively to her own a monument in keeping with their worldly condition and with the somewhat mixed facts of their triangular case.
"It's such a comfort to take counsel with you, my dear!" And the generous man walked out on to the veranda, very well satisfied with himself and his wife, and prospectively pleased with Josh. Once he murmured to himself, "I'll lay for Eckley next time." Josh, the subject of Mr. Leckler's charitable solicitations, was the plantation plasterer.
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