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The objection is slighted, on the other hand, by considering the passage as a mere poetical license. 'Besides, say they, 'the robin is the Irish nightingale. And if it be hinted how unlikely it was that Goldsmith should have laid the scene in a place from which he was and had been so long absent, the rejoinder is always, 'Pray, sir, was Milton in hell when he built Pandemonium?
"I shouldn't care if all the world had been looking," was the stubborn rejoinder. Then, passionately: "Tell me one thing before we go any farther, Eleanor: have you given him the right to call me out?" "How can you doubt it?" she said; but now she was laughing at him again. There was safety only in flight, and he fled; back to his desk and the work thereon.
She had her little conscious smile all ready for the rejoinder which she knew her son would not fail to give. He was very proud of his mother. "Why, mother," he said, "as far as that goes, I wouldn't balk at a throne for you as queen dowager." "You are a silly boy," said Mrs. Elliot, but she stole a glance at herself in an opposite mirror, and smiled complacently.
This rejoinder had no definite meaning, but that fact in itself made any retort comparatively difficult, and Wilkinson merely helped himself in silence to another sandwich.
"Yes, she certainly is a fine-looking woman," his companion admitted; "and, if I am any judge, the diamonds she wears are worth a small fortune. Did you notice them?" "No; I saw only herself," was the preoccupied response. "Aha! I see you are clean gone," was the laughing rejoinder of Mr. Appleton. The lady referred to was indeed a strangely attractive person.
All that was necessary therefore was to concert secretly the step most likely to thwart the royal policy, and by eloquence, by persuasion, by entreaty, to cajole the great floating mass of members to follow the lead of the more active minds. The King's speech on the 23rd of June was no surprise to the assembly, and the leaders were prepared with an effective rejoinder.
Possibly this too is erroneous, and I am far worse than others, but what am I to do? it's a habit! 'I understand you and sympathise with you! was Rudin's rejoinder. 'What generous soul has not experienced a yearning for self-humiliation? But one ought not to remain in that condition from which there is no outlet beyond.
I will, therefore, say no more about it, except to refer to the outrageous conduct of the French, who hurried two of the Commissioners out of France, and, apparently at the instigation of Talleyrand, declared that they must pay a great deal of money before they made any arrangement, to which Charles Pinckney made the famous rejoinder, "Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute."
The truth was, he was a little staggered by the President's circumstantial statement; whence his deliberation, and his not entirely pertinent rejoinder about "a family man." "And why not the same, sir? I ask you, why not the same?" demanded Mr. MacGentle, with slender imperiousness. But, by this time, Mr. Dyke had thought of a new argument. "The little girl, I understood you to say, was dark?
She accompanied her husband upon his last voyage, and the ship was never heard of again. Her parents are dead, too, so there are few to cherish her memory. She was a school-fellow of mine, and Herbert loved her as a sister." Mabel was gazing fixedly at her husband's stolid countenance and averted eyes, and made no rejoinder until the silent intensity of her regards compelled him to look up.
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