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But then Fanny Wyndham was so beautiful, so lively, so affectionate, so exactly what a cousin and a wife ought to be: he could not bear to think that all his protestations of friendship and love had been hypocritical; that he could only look upon her as a gudgeon, and himself as a bigger fish, determined to swallow her! Yet such must be his views regarding her.
I cannot tell you all he said, nor how he said it, but I was thoroughly confused and startled by his protestations, and could only say: "Mr. Benton, I do not desire to hear this; I cannot understand it; you have been mistaken," etc. To all of which he replied as if deeply pained, and I believed in his sorrow and despised myself.
Danny followed close behind, cautioning and scolding, and more than one player was dragged out of the mêlée and sent off to the gym in spite of the coach's pleas and protestations. "I'll not have them hurted," reiterated Danny stubbornly. "'Tis no sort of a day for hard work, Coach.
Trembling with agitation and eagerness, she waited for his promised proofs; but instead he only poured forth a continuous stream of protestations, expostulations and entreaties. "Mr. Egerton, I must, I must go," she repeated; "this is nothing to the purpose, and I cannot stay to hear it."
"You want Mr. Cassavetti?" I asked in Russian. "Well, his rooms are on the next floor." I pointed upwards as I spoke, and the miserable looking old creature understood the gesture at least, for, renewing his apologetic protestations, he began to shuffle along the landing, supporting himself by the hand-rail. I knew my neighbor Cassavetti fairly well.
An expression of amazement upon Kenyon's face convinced the newspaper woman, more than all his protestations would have done, that he knew nothing whatever of the escapade. 'And who kept you from coming out? asked Fleming. 'It is none of your business, she replied tartly.
The consequence was that Napoleon instantly fulminated the following letter against his brother Louis: BROTHER At the very moment when you were making the fairest protestations I learn that the servants of my Ambassador have been ill-treated at Amsterdam. I insist that those who were guilty of this outrage be delivered up to me, in order that their punishment may serve as an example to others.
No one would believe his protestations of pacific intentions now: he had caused too much devastation, too much misery in the past who would believe in him for the future?
Perhaps Laura enjoyed his torment, but she soothed him with blandishments that increased his ardor, and she smiled to herself to think that he had, with all his protestations of love, never spoken of marriage. Probably the vivacious fellow never had thought of it. At any rate when he at length went away from Hawkeye he was no nearer it.
This drew her into fresh protestations of the undying gratitude she entertained towards me, protestations which I would have stemmed, but that she persisted in them. "It is a good and noble thing that you have done," said she, "and I think that Heaven must have directed you to my aid, for it is scarce likely that in all Italy I should have found another man who would have done so much."
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