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After a moment Madame Sennier said, with a change of tone and manner that seemed to indicate an intention to be more friendly: "When you write another libretto, why not let me see it?" "You desire to inflict a fourth rejection upon me, madame?" "If you like, I'll tell you the only thing I desire," she replied, with a sort of brutal frankness well calculated to appeal to his rough character.
Dunstan, Luther, Bunyan, Swedenborg, and Blake. This arbitrary acceptance and rejection of parts of the gospel is not peculiar to the Secularist view. We have seen Luke and John reject Matthew's story of the massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt without ceremony.
Nevertheless, he read it carefully, and presently drawing a writing pad toward him, he began to note down excerpts from the diary. There was the story, told in temperate language and with surprising mildness, of Odette Rider's rejection of Thornton Lyne's advances.
During all the long period described in the chapters between, Jesus plainly foresaw his coming rejection and suffering and death, but fearlessly and with unfaltering step he moved onward to the cross. All the heroisms of history are dwarfed to insignificance by this incomparable courage of Christ. More obvious still is the boundless and tender sympathy of this ideal Man.
To check upon the public treasury beyond the limit fixed by law involved a risk which the State Government, not too friendly toward the convention at best, declined to assume. To raise the money outside by a private loan presented this risk, that in the case of the rejection of the constitution, then in embryo, the lender might find himself the holder of an uncertain claim.
His first emotion was one of repugnance, of rejection, . . what did he need of this will-o'-the-wisp called Fame, dancing again across his path, this transitory torch of world-approval! Fame in London! ... What was it, what COULD it be, compared to the brilliancy of the fame he had once enjoyed as Laureate of Al-Kyris!
Believing that the rejection of the Constitution by the people called for some action on the part of the Assembly, Governor Chambers proposed and recommended "that the question be again submitted to the people, whether or not they will at this time have a Convention."
In this way the "wasting" of a vote, or the rejection of a candidate for any reason except that hardly anybody wants him, become practically impossible.
CECILIA. "Yes; and I think it was something that passed between them which made my father speak to me for the first time almost sternly." LADY GLENALVON. "In urging Chillingly Gordon's suit?" CECILIA. "Commanding me to reconsider my rejection of it. He has contrived to fascinate my father." LADY GLENALVON. "So he has me.
We learn that the repression which, though originally expedient, terminates nevertheless in a harmful rejection of inhibition and of psychic domination, is so much more easily accomplished with reminiscences than with perceptions, because in the former there is no increase in occupation through the excitement of the psychic sensory organs.
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