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'For one thing, there's a suggestion of dishonour about it. We've gone over all that 'Oh, I don't mean that for a moment. It isn't really dishonourable. My father could never have objected to you for my husband. He only wanted to guard me Mary says so, and he told her everything. He thought me a silly, flighty girl, and was afraid I should be trapped for the sake of my money.
This was cut into 118 gores, which were entirely hand-sewed with a double seam, and some idea of the vastness of the work may be gathered from the fact that 200 women were employed during a month in the sewing of the gores. For the sake of greater strength the silk was doubled. In other words, there were two balloons of the same size, one within the other.
But he had turned away from those clustering temptations, he had left unbroken his veneer of honorable life, for her sake while she herself had surrendered, unmistakably, irrevocably, whatever strange form the surrender might even at that moment be taking. All he could do, now, was to wait until morning. There would surely be some message, some hint, some key to the mystery.
Peters, fur God's sake don't turn 'em red." "That's good talk, Starbuck, an' it mout belong to the pulpit but not to business, an' I'm a business man." "Yes, you look like it." "And I'll act like it, too; I'll tell you that fur yo' own infermation. An' thar ain't a man in the country that likes to give out infermation better'n I do when I see that it's goin' to be of use to somebody.
I realised that at breakfast, when he began assuring her that for the sake of her peace of mind it was essential to give up his Thursday evenings. As usual the visitors arrived at almost the same time. "Is your mistress at home, too?" Kukushkin asked me in a whisper. "No, sir," I answered.
Taken for what it is worth, the expression of this mood the culture of ennui for its own sake is certainly carried to its ideal of negation by Amiel.
"His family desires this, then?" "Would I telephone across the continent if we did not?" "I'll come, Mrs. McKaye for his sake and yours. I suppose you understand why I left Port Agnew. If not, I will tell you. It was for his sake and that of his family." "Thank you. I am aware of that, Miss Brent. Ah of course you will be amply reimbursed for your time and trouble, Miss Brent.
"I ask for no joy no demonstration of a felicity that you will not, cannot feel, for months to come; but obtain a right to his powerful name give him an undisputed title to protect you " Again the maid made an impressive gesture of denial. "For the sake of that unconscious sufferer" pointing to Sarah, "for your sake for my sake my sister "
Peacocke, when that gentleman deserted his college for the sake of establishing himself across the Atlantic. But he was one who thought that there should be a place of penitence allowed to those who had clearly repented of their errors; and, moreover, when he heard that Mr.
'I think you will find, resumed Knight, pursuing the conversation more for the sake of finishing off his thoughts on the subject than for engaging her attention, 'that in actual life it is merely a matter of instinct with men this trying to push on.
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