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To this la chere mamma objected, she being tired, but added, that Isabella and I might go on, and that she would take us up in half an hour. This was an arrangement so very agreeable and unlooked for by me, that I pressed Miss Bingham as far as I well could, and at last succeeded in overcoming her scruples, and permitting me to shawl her.

I can now mention his name. Al danger being over, all scruples vanished. Prudent and wise people could now give their adherence to the coup d'état, they allowed their names to be posted up. Here is the placard: "FRENCH REPUBLIC. "In the name of the French People. "The President of the Republic,

At first, the girl had rebelled against this delay, for she was strongly biased by her religious training, and looked with horror on the state of wickedness in which she was living. But Gaston laughed at her scruples, and as time went on, her finer feelings became blunted, and she accepted the position to which she was reduced in an apathetic manner.

These are not the times to stand on conventional scruples.

He explained his scruples and his sorrows to the boy, who submitted to his fate with calm courage. But Naozane vowed never to wield weapon again. He sent Atsumori's head and a flute found on his person to the youth's father, Tsunemori, and he himself entered the priesthood, devoting the remaining years of his life to prayers for the soul of the ill-fated lad.

"I'm not worth paying two million for, Clara." "You are, if she loves you." "She does and would marry me to-morrow if I would let her. The hesitation is on my part." "More fool you. If I were in her position I'd soon overcome your scruples." "I think not," said Lambert delicately. "Oh, I think so," she retorted. "A woman always gets her own way." "And sometimes wrecks continents to get it."

He had afterward held his own in the city, mainly by simple unwavering determination. Carroll, however, realized that to guard against the wiles of a clever man like Horsfield, who was unhampered by any scruples, might prove a very different thing. "In that case, it might be as well to stay in Vancouver as much as possible and keep your eye on him," he suggested.

Adelle in deference to Archie's scruples stretched a point and made herself of age. When the formalities had been completed, the young Irishman called in from the outer office one of the hangers-on who happened to be a seedy minister of the gospel and who looked as if he were in Paris by mistake.

At last, however, her scruples, for some reason or other, are all overcome, and the Queen of Heaven owns her attachment. She gave her fair hands to him, and behold, Before three swiftest kisses he had told, They vanish far away! Peona went Home through the gloomy wood in wonderment. And so, like many other romances, terminates the "Poetic Romance" of Johnny Keats, in a patched-up wedding.

This particular specimen of the genus was both a vegetarian and a celibate. The latter fact had been made clear to me by the many regrets expressed in the neighbourhood that he had remained a bachelor owing to religious scruples.