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"The run over the rocks will do me for exercise tonight." "Then will I assay it alone," I replied, not displeased at his refusal. "I am cramped from sitting in the canoe so long." "'Twill be a hard climb, and they tell me the père has strained a tendon of his leg coming ashore." "And what of that!" I burst forth, giving vent to my indignation. "Am I a ten-year-old to be guarded every step I take?
He remembered, too, that he had been told that upon Christmas eve, instead of going to bed, he must sit before the fireplace upon a certain chair in the sitting-room to await the arrival of St. Nick. Perfect obedience being so impressed upon his mind, Edwin obeyed, but imagined many things, one of which was that instant death would follow any refusal to do the bidding of St. Nick.
But George Grenville had parted from him at its close, and now Lord Temple drew to his brother rather than to Pitt. His refusal to join the Cabinet left Pitt absolutely alone so far as Parliamentary strength went, and he felt himself too weak, when thus deserted, to hold his ground in any ministerial combination with the Whigs.
"Come, come, you rascal! What's that you're saying? You forget that we're both married men, and that it is very late and our wives are expecting us. No ill-will, eh? This is not a refusal, you understand. By the way, come and see me after the inventory. We will talk it over again. Ah! there's Pere Achille putting out his gas. I must go in. Good-night."
So let us go at once to the church, for I am quite ready to be baptized." There is no need to say if Jean de Civigny, who expected a refusal, was pleased at this consent.
"It has occurred to the Lord Bishop," he piped, "that monsieur has not been offered the privilege of watching by the bier." The idea startled me, and I was at a loss what to say. "The Lord Bishop presents his profound regrets, and will monsieur care to watch?" I saw at once that a refusal would have horrified the ecclesiastic. "I shall regard it as an honor," I said. "When?"
Jacqueline shook her head resolutely, though at that moment her heart felt as if it were in a vise, and the moisture in her eyes looked like anything but a refusal. Then, without giving herself time for further thought, she whirled away into the dance with M. de Cymier.
"This explanation being unsatisfactory to the American commissioners, and Howe persisting in his refusal to make the required alteration in his powers, the negotiation was broken off, and this fair prospect of terminating the distresses of the prisoners on both sides passed away without effecting the good it had promised.
As a palliative to his refusal he had added, that, if by that time I had a well-established position in the world, he might consent to our wedding. That answer struck me as most cruel, and in the despair in which it threw me I was not astonished when the same night I found the door by which I used to gain admittance to C C closed and locked inside.
Then, because there is nothing more true and trustful than the heart of a good woman, or more surely an inheritance from the maid-mother of the sinless garden than her way of showing that she gives her all, Winsome laid her either hand on her lover's shoulders and drew his face down to hers laying her lips to his of her own free will and accord, without shame in giving, or coquetry of refusal, in that full kiss of first surrender which a woman may give once, but never twice, in her life.
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