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Singularly at variance with it was this expression of tenacity. Such an expression in the face of the young infallibly forecasts an agitated and agitating life.
The promise had been made, and she was bound by it, until she could tell William Pressley the truth and ask him to set her free. Soft and feminine as her nature was, she had nevertheless a singularly clear, firm sense of honor as most men understand that term and as few women do. She had already tried more than once to tell him, but he had been almost constantly away from home of late.
We will go further, and say that, though passionate and often wrongheaded, he was a singularly fair controversialist, candid, generous, too high-spirited to take mean advantages even in the most exciting disputes, and pure from all taint of personal malevolence.
But whichever solution we accept and there is no third alternative her personal policy remains one of pure political opportunism, either very short sighted or singularly long sighted, without a particle of the idealism which, mixed though it might be with other motives, was so emphatically characteristic of half her ministers and more than half her subjects.
The ceremony itself was a singularly stately and graceful one. His Excellency, clad in Court dress, stood in the middle of the throne room, surrounded by the great officers of State in their robes of office. The aides-de-camp stood in a semicircle between the doorway and the dais. The first ladies to be presented were His Excellency's own sisters.
You have dared to hide that you might witness my weakness and my tears? You...." "Madame!" "Go! I hate you!" "Ah, Madame, we always hate those whom we have wronged. Do not forget that I love you, with a love that passes convention." "Monsieur, I am yet a princess. Did you not hear me bid you go?" "Why?" in a voice singularly free from agitation.
That she might be of use to him in his work was singularly sweet to hear, and the thought reached to the end of her heart, causing her to smile sadly, and argue vainly, and him to reply querulously. They walked for about a mile; and then, wearied with sad expostulation, the conversation fell, and at the end of a long silence Julia said 'I think we had better turn back.
The professor was singularly calm, even slightly ironical, as he turned to me, saying: "Perhaps if you relinquish Miss Barrison she may be able to free herself from that dog." I did so immediately, and she deposited the cowering dog in my arms. Her face had suddenly become pink.
The 'Globigerina' of the Atlantic soundings is identical with that which occurs in the chalk; and the casts of lower silurian 'Foraminifera', which Ehrenberg has recently described, seem to indicate the existence at that remote period of forms singularly like those which now exist.
"One must read him as one reads all those curious old mediæval authors, who are full of pseudo-science and theories based on fables. His great charm to me is his style, which is singularly rich and chaste.
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