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It is a hideous and insulting torture which I will not submit to, against which my whole inner man revolts, and which you will and must forego if indeed it is true that you love me!" "I love you, oh! I love you," she cried, beside herself, and seizing his hands. "Perhaps you are right. I my God what shall I do? Only do not ask me yet, to speak the final yes or no.
In the revolts that took place after the "coup d'etat" a part of the French farmers protested, arms in hand, against their own vote of December 10, 1848. The school house had, since 1848, sharpened their wits. But they had bound themselves over to the nether world of history, and history kept them to their word.
Hence the ceaseless intrigues of party, the daily increasing contumacy, and the revolts, sometimes quenched in blood, of the wild mountain tribes and ancient robber-chiefs, to whom European institutions were still an insupportable yoke.
Affairs in Rome were no longer pressing, and, after the carelessness and blunders of his lieutenants, the administration of the Peninsula required his personal inspection. From open revolts in any part of the Roman dominions he had nothing more to fear. The last card had been played, and the game of open resistance was lost beyond recovery.
"Wait!" exclaimed Grigosie. "Ask for time to consider." "Who wants to consider such a thing as that?" growled Stefan. "We gain time," said Grigosie, turning to Ellerey. "Say you will consider the suggestion and answer them tomorrow. We sorely need rest; what does it matter how we gain it?" "My gorge revolts against their even fancying that we should consider such a thing," said Stefan.
The Southrons, inflammable, petulant, audacious, were the first to assault and to defy the imperial power in both revolts, while the inhabitants of the northern provinces, slower to be aroused, but of more enduring wrath, were less ardent at the commencement, but; alone, steadfast at the close of the contest.
"This is more important than any word of honour. It's the hypocrisy revolts me, the lying! . . ." "I don't understand it," said Olga Ivanovna, and tears glistened in her eyes. "Tell me, Alyosha," she turned to her son. "Do you see your father?" Alyosha did not hear her; he was looking with horror at Belyaev. "It's impossible," said his mother; "I will go and question Pelagea."
Of the fourteen consulars killed, three Rufus, Cinna, and Flaccus fell through military revolts, while eight Sullan and three Marian consulars fell as victims to the opposite party.
I know all about the genuine national tradition which treated the aristocracy as constituting the state; but these very foreign purchases go to prove that we ought to have had a state independent of the aristocracy. It is true that rich Americans do sometimes covet the monuments of our culture in a fashion that rightly revolts us as vulgar and irrational.
At irregular intervals there were revolts, and under the pressure of violent acts temporary relief would be afforded; then things would go on as before. While such was the perennial condition of political unrest, a rebellion of a different sort broke out at Seoul in 1885 an anti-foreign rebellion which had for its purpose the expulsion of all the foreign legations.
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