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Eleanor's unusual abilities, the extent of her knowledge and reading on general subjects, the rapidity with which she picked up conversational French and wielded it in discussions with Madame, and finally her industry and perseverance, won Madame's admiration and good-will. I think she almost believed that Mademoiselle Arkwright's word was to be relied upon.
She had listened to him with bated breath; she pitied him deeply as he stood there, a suppliant in bitter anguish of soul, a criminal who still could not understand that he was one, and who relied on the confidence that, only yesterday, he still had had the right to exact from all the world.
"We certainly wouldn't have got on half as well if we'd stayed where we were." "Oh, I don't know," the Hermit answered. "Yours is a good place I've often caught plenty of fish there only not to be relied on as this pool is. I've really never known this particular spot fail the fish seem to live in it all the year round.
But it is seldom remembered that the Puritans were in their day emphatically intellectual bullies, that they relied swaggeringly on the logical necessity of Calvinism, that they bound omnipotence itself in the chains of syllogism. The Puritans fell, through the damning fact that they had a complete theory of life, through the eternal paradox that a satisfactory explanation can never satisfy.
If the Inquisition maltreated some of her sailors, others might be relied on to effect reprisals and to collect compensation, on their own responsibility, without her actually applying the grievance as a casus belli: it could always be employed to that end, if occasion should arise. Requescens died suddenly, a few days before the prorogation of the English Parliament in March.
We felt that for two main reasons we could no longer publicly associate ourselves with him: We could not retain on our publications the name of a man who had pleaded guilty to the publication of an obscene work; Many of our writings were liable to prosecution for blasphemy, and it was necessary that we should have a publisher who could be relied on to stand firm in time of peril; we felt that if Mr.
"The shameless woman," cried the Count of Arestino, his usually pale face becoming perfectly death-like through the violence of his inward emotions. "But how know you all this?" demanded his lordship, suddenly turning toward the dependent; "who is your informant and can he be relied on?
So that he was only a potential defaulter, so to speak; and discreditable as the affair undoubtedly was, it does not seem to have any direct bearing on this present case." "No," Jervis agreed, "though it makes one consider his position with more attention than one would otherwise." "Undoubtedly," said Thorndyke. "A reckless gambler is a man whose conduct cannot be relied on.
Expressions of pride, determination, obstinacy, &c., are all observable. The gait, however, is often formed, in a great measure, by local or other circumstances, by which it is necessary that the observer should avoid being misled. Dress, as affording indications, though less to be relied on than the preceding, is not without its value.
"You have set your heart on this; nothing less will content you?" "While the necessity continues, nothing less will content me." "Remember, you voluntarily take your life in your own hands." "I assume the entire responsibility for any risk incurred." "Then, I wish you God speed; for the harvest is white, the laborers few." "Why, doctor! I relied on you to help me keep her out of reach.
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