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"It was small, very small, spitefulness on my part, I know; but the satisfaction of thwarting Mother Jezebel, even in a trifle, was not to be resisted. 'I can't wait, I said; 'you reminded me just now that I ought to be at church. Before she could answer I was out of the room. "As I put my foot on the first stair the street door was opened, and a man's voice inquired whether Mrs.
It caused a clamour in the city for a new system of more just taxation, which was too powerful to be resisted. The voice of the people made itself loudly heard; and with the people on this occasion sided Giovanni de' Medici. This was in 1427. It is here that the Medici appear upon that memorable scene where in the future they are to play the first part.
He died at his home in Indiana on the 1st day of November . He had for several years been in ill health, but struggled with great nerve against the advances of disease. Few men could have resisted so long and so bravely.
"We are not savages; we will tell Monsieur Courtois that in passing along by the park in our boat, we perceived the body." Old Jean resisted at first; then, seeing that his son would, if need be, go without him, yielded. They re-crossed the ditch, and leaving their fishing-tackle in the field, directed their steps hastily toward the mayor's house.
He was at that moment traversing a narrow, winding lane; and, in the field to the right, as he looked in at the open gate, he saw the movement. It might be a cat, it might be a hare, it might be a rabbit, it might be some other animal; it was all one to Mr. Dan Duff; and he had not been a boy had he resisted the propensity to pursue it.
They insisted on giving to the Republic the character, the attitude and the emblems of the first Revolution they insisted on a Republic violent, sweeping, dictatorial and terrorist, in language, in gesture and in color, in place of that determined on, moderate, pacific, legal, unanimous and constitutional. At the peril of their lives the Provisional Government resisted this demand.
And now, ma'am, if you'll allow me, I'll just meander down to the pasture and milk the cow while you're getting breakfast." Again he caught her hand and made as if to start with her for the door. When she resisted, he bent and kissed her again and again. "I'm sure hungry for you, little woman," he murmured "You make thirty millions look like thirty cents."
A door, which at first resisted their efforts, was soon broken through; Ciboule rushed into the apartment with a stick in her hand, her hair dishevelled, furious, and, as it were, maddened with the noise and tumult.
"It is not just," he had said. Other expedients for enlarging his revenue Ben Aboo had suggested, but Israel had steadfastly resisted all of them. Sometimes the Governor had pretended that he had received an order from the Sultan to impose a gross and wicked tax, but Israel's answer had been the same. "There is no evil in the world but injustice," he had said.
All was still in the cabin, except for the slow breathing of those that slept; save that every now and then one of the sleepers broke into a stifled cry, and muttered words, or stirred in his sleep. Presently David felt that he could walk. He pondered for a moment whether he should take the knife, if he were suddenly attacked; but he resisted the thought, and left the knife lying on the ground.
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