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The situation was not sufficiently defined. Dick asked himself with concern whether she were altogether in her right wits. To take her away, to marry her, to work off his hands for her support, Dick was content to do all this; yet he required some show of love upon her part.
They got wind the Senator was goin' to die, and so the Governor told that lie about having to go South just so he could step into the dead man's shoes, eh?" "That's the situation if you want to put it that way." "And now you're going to appoint the Governor?" "Of course I am; I couldn't do anything else if I wanted to." "Why not?"
In fact, their situation, their disposition, their very origin, every thing about them was at variance.
"Because I don't at all want," she explained, "to be blinded, or made 'sniffy, by any sense of a social situation."
"It's an Indian word for a river gorge. I went up it not long ago." "Then," exclaimed Crestwick, "I suppose you know the mine?" Lisle glanced at the others. Their eyes were fixed upon him, Batley's steadily, Gladwyne's with a hint of uneasiness. It was, he felt, a remarkable piece of good fortune that had given him control of the situation. "Yes," he answered carelessly, "I know the mine."
Old Benjy on his part knew the same thing, and after sundry endeavours to peep at his nephew from the corner of his eye, he could bear the situation no longer. 'Do ye want to say anything to me, nephew? he quaked. 'No, uncle, thank ye, said Festus heartily. 'I like to stay here, thinking of you and looking at your back hair.
Abercromby said Rob Roy affected to consider him as a friend to the Jacobite interest and a sincere enemy to the Union. Neither of these circumstances were true; but the laird thought it quite unnecessary to undeceive his Highland host at the risk of bringing on a political dispute in such a situation.
In this situation of danger the Lord James, afterwards so well known as Murray, the Queen's brother, put himself in the breach. He "took upon him to keep the door of the chapel." There was no man in Scotland more true to the faith, and none more esteemed in the Congregation.
It is the dominating and deciding factor in the whole situation. It is manifest, therefore, that, important as are the functions of statesmanship, the really fundamental factors of individual conduct and of national life elude the most searching enactments of the most vigilant legislators.
And no one cared for her love. Nowhere was her capacity for love less in demand than in her new situation in Germany. The Gruenebaums, whose children she was engaged to teach French, took not the slightest interest in her.
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