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No slightest word or look of disappointment or displeasure follows the refusal of those who give nothing. The saucer is presented to each in turn. I supposed that the application to Si'or Pantaleone was an empty form. But no.
It was a very striking instance of what pure kind-heartedness will do, for there would have been no religious command broken by going in the coach. It was the pure influence of compassion towards the beasts and refusal to be a party to such hard-heartedness. And yet, as I have said, I do not think the law could have interfered with success.
With a woman's willingness to adapt the means to the end she suggested that he should follow them up and try to overhear something more; she only partially realized the infamy of her suggestion when he laughed in scornful refusal. "Of course I don't want you to eavesdrop, but I do want you to find out about them. And about Mr. Burnamy, too.
She still shook her head. "I will go to the wife of the inspector," said Garth "a woman in such a position is sure to be the right sort and I will explain our position frankly. She will be glad to take you in!" Natalie shot an odd glance at him. "I will not let you," she said quickly. "But why?" "The risk of the humiliation of a refusal is too great," she said.
What is it that we risk losing as long as we refuse to accept the principle of Preferential Trade, and will certainly lose in the long run if we persist in that refusal? It is a position of permanent and assured advantage in some of the greatest and most growing markets in the world.
The young man aspired for a moment to the hand of Mademoiselle Colleville, and the worthy Thuillier has been made to imagine that the seizure of his pamphlet was a revenge for the refusal."
The whole future will depend upon this interview." "That is what I was just thinking." "Believe me, my lord, women never love any so well, as the bold man who spares them the embarrassment of a refusal." "Explain more fully." "Well, my lord, they despise the timid and languishing lover, who asks humbly for what he might take by force."
The Emperor was urging his brother to get a divorce, and promised him a crown if he would do this; but Lucien replied that he would never abandon the mother of his children, which refusal irritated the Emperor so greatly, that his expressions became harsh and even insulting.
The refusal to accept anything of so fantastic a nature may readily be regarded as the expression of a sound mind, while indulgence in such “idle dreaming” is accounted morbid, and a pursuit fit only for people in whom the joy and ardour of life are lacking, and who are incapable of “real work.” It would be wrong to set this assertion aside at once as an injustice, for it contains a certain grain of truth.
I am a painter," he added, in modest explanation. "Yes," said the princess, "I know. But, really this is a matter which would require great consideration and my husband's consent and, for the present " She paused significantly, intending to convey a polite refusal, but Gouache completed the sentence. "For the present, until my bones are mended, we will not speak of it.
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