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"Will that satisfy you, Captain Folkner?" continued Christy, appealing to him. "It would if I had the steamer in deep water," replied the captain. "But how am I to get her into deep water if my crew will not work?" "Run the blockade, according to the articles!" exclaimed Lonley. "When are the rest of the ship's company to join you?" asked Christy of the leader of the mutineers.
Minheer Vanderhausen's direction in Rotterdam he was fully possessed of; after some irresolution he finally determined to journey thither a trifling undertaking, and easily accomplished and thus to satisfy himself of the safety and comfort of his ward, for whom he entertained an honest and strong affection.
Knowing you, therefore, to be at leisure, we have taken the present opportunity to wait upon you; so that, if it is really convenient, you will oblige us both by resuming the subject." "Well, gentlemen," said I, "as you are so pressing, I will endeavour to satisfy you in the best manner I am able."
Without heeding the exclamations of surprise and questions of his wife, who had never seen an animal of the kind, Gaut stepped out of the door, and, after pausing long enough to satisfy himself that he was not known to the other, said, after the distant greeting customary among strangers had been exchanged: "That is a strange horse you are travelling on, friend."
She saw instantly that her cousin's manners were not altered by his marriage; his formal civility was just what it had been, and he detained her some minutes at the gate to hear and satisfy his inquiries after all her family.
Your husband has a passion for water prospects, I can tell you, and would become a misanthrope without them. I am doubtful if he will be happy, indeed, if not within telescope distance from the sea itself. I don't think that a river will altogether satisfy him."
For, veritably, this girl was the last sort of girl to please his fancy; and he saw not a little of fair ladies: by virtue of his heroic antecedents, he was himself well seen of them. The gallant cornet adored delicacy and a gilded refinement. The female flower could not be too exquisitely cultivated to satisfy him.
Only the organs are different, of which the will must avail itself in the higher stages of its objective existence, in order to satisfy its more complicated, and therefore more disputed and less easily obtainable, wants.
"Then I can reassure my brother in that respect?" "Nothing will satisfy him, sire. Do not believe he is jealous. Monsieur has been badly advised by some one, and he is of nervous disposition." "He may well be so when you are concerned," said the king. Madame cast down her eyes, and was silent; the king did so likewise, still holding her hand all the while.
Suspecting how it was, then, he wished to satisfy himself as to whether Don Quixote's features corresponded; and taking a parchment out of his bosom he lit upon what he was in search of, and setting himself to read it deliberately, for he was not a quick reader, as he made out each word he fixed his eyes on Don Quixote, and went on comparing the description in the warrant with his face, and discovered that beyond all doubt he was the person described in it.
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