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Some there were who conceived that to live moderately and keep oneself from all excess was the best defence against such a danger; wherefore, making up their company, they lived removed from every other and shut themselves up in those houses where none had been sick and where living was best; and there, using very temperately of the most delicate viands and the finest wines and eschewing all incontinence, they abode with music and such other diversions as they might have, never suffering themselves to speak with any nor choosing to hear any news from without of death or sick folk.
There being no signs of resistance, the army, in order to save appearances, removed, at the desire of the parliament to a greater distance from London, and fixed their head quarters at Reading. They carried the king along with them in all their marches.
The French and Swedes had indeed removed from Bavaria; but, by the loss of his quarters in the Suabian circle, he found himself compelled either to exhaust his own territories by the subsistence of his troops, or at once to disband them, and to throw aside the shield and spear, at the very moment when the sword alone seemed to be the arbiter of right.
I let her pick the way, and we led the others slowly around through the part of the Garden most removed from the house and where the Masques were fewest. I took it, that she had no desire to be prominent, and I was very well content.
North, "our people generally insist that abuses, oppression, cruelty, are so inherent in slavery that they cannot be removed without destroying the relation itself." "Here," said I, "is the mistake under which Southerners perceive that we labor, and which prevents us from having the least influence with them.
The duke was standing a few paces distant, having already removed his coat and turned up the shirt sleeve of the sword arm. "You will act as second, marquis?" he said to one of the gentlemen. The latter bowed coldly. "I act as second to my friend Leslie," Colonel Hume said.
As a record of every one's career is faithfully kept, we have ready means of making ourselves acquainted with every one's antecedents and, consequently, of testing the validity of the "objections." The objections being removed, the stranger is received with a hearty welcome.
When its operation is over, the pain, and other symptoms which it had for a time abated, return; and generally with greater violence than before, unless the cause has been removed by the diaphoresis or relaxation which it occasioned.
As her guardian, I feel it my duty to provide liberally for her comfort and education, and to this you, of course, can have nothing to object." And Claire did not object. In a few weeks from that time he removed into one of the houses mentioned by Jasper a larger and far more comfortable one than that in which he had lived for several years.
If such a policy must be called opportunism, it was opportunism in its best form; and opportunism in its best form, under the conditions of party government, is not far removed from political wisdom. Sir George Nicholls, History of the English Poor Law, vol. ii., see especially pp. 242, 243. Hatherton, Memoir; Creevey, Memoirs, ii., 285-88. See Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, viii., 446-57.
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