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"Then pray don't repeat it to me, my love" another yawn and an irritable one. "Gossip as you know is abhorrent to me." "And to me but one needs to be forearmed with the truth if one is to rebut it conclusively. Only upon such grounds should I think of mentioning this to you." She made a dash. "James, have you by chance ever heard peculiar rumours about young Darcy Faircloth's parentage?"
Since this present difference is in danger of losing the healing influence of a kindly touch has become an uncourteous monster of 35 heads and 3 appendices I see no early end of it. The British Foreign Office has a lot of lawyers in its great back offices. They and our lawyers will now butt and rebut as long as a goat of them is left alive on either side.
In seven years, think to what amount Abd el Hakk is indebted to thee. Sue him. "Widow Záïdah listened. What is more, she acted. Abd el Hakk failed to appear to rebut the claim. He was worth no more. "'Why is the defendant not here? asked the judge. "'My lord, said his attorney, 'he is gone to sow boiled beans. "'Boiled beans! "'Boiled beans, my lord. "'Is he mad?
However determined he was, at bottom, to elude the strict execution of the treaty of Madrid, Francis was anxious to rebut the charge of perjury by shifting the responsibility on to the shoulders of the people themselves and their representatives.
This impression was heightened by the investigations which I quietly made in regard to the point, feeling that though I could not admit the possibility of a doubt even in regard to his business sagacity, it was well to have evidence with which to rebut the insinuations of my family. Every one of the young men whom I questioned regarding Mr.
I am almost ashamed to stand up before you and endeavour to rebut a story so plausible and so essentially convincing. I feel that my task is well-nigh hopeless. Nevertheless, I must do my best." And so on. It was one of his greatest feats in the kind of irony that appeals to a jury. And the audience deemed that the case was already virtually decided. Henry Leek was invited to the witness-box.
He then traversed the various methods by which statesmen were seeking to prevent that survival of Slavery, addressing himself by turns to the arguments of those who, with John Sherman, "seemed," said he, "to consider it as within the power of Congress by virtue of its Legislative authority;" to those of the "many well-judging men, with the President at their head, who," to again use his own words, "seem to suppose that it is within the reach of the Executive;" and lastly, to those "who express the opinion that it is not within the scope of either Executive or Legislative authority, or of Constitutional Amendment;" and after demolishing the arguments of those who held the two former of these positions, he proceeded to rebut the assumption that Slavery could not be abolished at all because it was not originally abolished by the Constitution.
"Oh, no!" said Sophia; but with a slight failure to rebut the suggestion as utterly ridiculous. "Sure?" Constance questioned. "Quite, thank you," said Sophia. "Well, I'll leave you. I expect Amy will have tea ready directly." She went down into the kitchen. "Amy," she said, "as soon as we've finished tea, light a fire in Mrs. Scales's bedroom." "In the top bedroom, m'm?" "Yes."
But Judge Carcasson had not been able to charge the jury in that sense, for there was no effective evidence to rebut the untruthful attestation of the Spaniard. It had to be taken for what it was worth, since the prosecuting attorney could not shake it; and yet to the Court itself it was manifestly false witness.
There was no chance to rebut anything which the latter alleged that they had observed, and their testimony, save in so far as it was inconsistent or contradictory in itself, remained irrefutable. Even here it would be the simplest thing in the world to remedy the difficulty and the proper legal steps in all jurisdictions should be taken immediately.
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