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Callender was beginning to protest against this last act the coach rolled away, and Agatha saw Millard and Phillida face about without waiting for another coach and return toward Shakspere and the Mall. "I oughtn't to have let him pay for us," murmured Mrs. Callender. "Oh, you needn't feel under any obligations," whispered Agatha; "he just wanted to be alone with Phillida."
She had contemplated it, critically, and after a brief silence had let her eyes wander from its jewels to the Frenchman's face. "Wielding a scepter, Monsieur," she had suggested smilingly, "is less difficult than seizing a scepter. I fear I should need a stronger hand." "Ah, but Madame," the Frenchman had hastened to protest, "these are the days of the deft finger and the deft brain.
Quiet was at length restored by the Dean of Faculty, who succeeded in soothing the prisoner, and who then addressed the Judges, pleading for indulgence to his unhappy client in most touching and eloquent language. The speech, a masterpiece of impromptu oratory, concluded with a temperate yet strongly urged protest against the reading of the papers discovered at Gleninch.
If the whole world had come crashing down upon her, she could not have made the slightest effort to escape. He pressed his lips against hers. She did not return his kiss, but she did not protest. He slipped his arm around her waist and drew her up. Still she made no objection. He held her more closely, kissing her again and again.
Liberia made a last feeble effort. A "Protest" was drawn up and sent to the various powers with whom she stood in treaty relations of course, without result. The President of the United States replied at once, counselling acquiescence. Nothing else was possible. The Senate authorized the President to accept the terms dictated, and the "Draft Convention" was signed November 11, 1885.
But I know that we have no chance against so large a force, and if we fall what is to become of the hundreds whom we now protect?" But the murmur of protest grew. All the younger men were indignant. They would not seek shelter for themselves while others were suffering. A young lieutenant saw from a window two fires spring up and burn like torch lights against the sky.
Indeed, so loudly did it croak a protest and a warning that she immediately arose in alarm. "Mr. Amber!" she said; and, "Well ...!" "You'll forgive me the surprise?" he begged, going up on the veranda to her. "I myself had no hope of finding you here." "But," she protested, with a pretty flush of colour "but I left you in the States such a little while ago!" "Yes?" he said gravely.
On this arose a contention between the plebeian tribunes; some of them declaring that they would protest against his triumphing in a manner unprecedented; others, that they would support his pretensions, in opposition to their colleagues.
How do we know that even the later condition is final, or that anything is final but entire equality before the laws? It is not many years since William Story in a legal work inspired and revised by his father, the greatest of American jurists wrote this indignant protest against the injustice of the old common law:
And I can't let you leave Dalhousie without a word of protest even if it is useless." She hesitated. "May I speak straight?" "As straight as you please. I should prefer it." "Well, I think that if it is a case of nerves, or worry of any kind, nothing can be worse for you than your own society.
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