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Persons jealous of my situation having subjected me to mortifications, and these unpleasant circumstances recurring daily, I requested the Queen's permission to withdraw from Court. She exclaimed against the very idea, represented it to me as extremely dangerous for my own reputation, and had the kindness to add that, for my sake as well as for her own, she never would consent to it.
Well, you could not get anything more true than The Double Event; and race-horsing is the most important thing in life, too. I sent up the other day for six of his books; they ought to be here to-morrow." "Well, for God's sake, don't bring them in here," said Gordon, "there is enough mess as it is with The Sportsmans of the last month trailing all over the place."
But for Rosa's sake I could not bring myself to act; and after all, it was merely a matter of suspicion. About three days before the sailing of the expedition I rode home to spend the evening. José met me at the outer gate, and I saw in a moment that something had happened. "What is it?" I asked. "Have you come to meet me?" "Yes. Send your horse on; I want to talk to you."
He was placed in the category of all fallen oaks someone who would have one of the largest funerals ever held in the city. And friends murmured that for Bea's sake they hoped it would not be long. But it was to be long for with the tenacity of purpose he had always exhibited Constantine readjusted himself to the narrow realm of four walls.
Then it was that God resolved upon the destruction of these sinners. When God saw that there was no righteous man among the inhabitants of the sinful cities, and there would be none among their descendants, for the sake of whose merits the rest might be treated with lenient consideration, He resolved to annihilate them one and all.
For its sake he gladly endured the sermons, and even in the sermon he sometimes found common ground with the preacher. They could meet on any faith that postulated the brotherhood of man. But the reverend speaker touched such a subject warily. It seemed to Dave he would gladly have gone further, but was held in restraint by a sense of the orthodoxy of his congregation.
Barnes stared at him with wide-open eyes. He seemed, for the moment, struck dumb. Wrayson, who had been silent during the greater part of the conversation, turned towards the lawyer. "You believe, then," he asked, "that Morris Barnes was murdered for the sake of these securities?" "I believe nothing," the lawyer answered. "It is not my business to believe. Mr.
"I hope we did not keep him too long," observed Elizabeth anxiously, "for he is running as though he were late." But Dinah did not hear her; she had already taken up her position by the window, and was looking out for Cedric. The hope I dreamed of was a dream Was but a dream; and now I wake Exceeding comfortless, and worn and sad For a dream's sake.
Our ambassadors were coming back with the message: "It is arranged, O Consuls, that you shall pay a certain sum of money!" Children of the desert, you are not the only ones who make a demand for conscience sake, and then compound for cash! We only afterwards learned how this negotiation was carried on with the enemy.
"For goodness sake, stop that trash; what on earth has all that got to do with your permitting the black to enter the store, which is supposed to be under your charge, and for the contents of which you are responsible?"
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