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He had been the first commander-in-chief of the Northern army, and, foreseeing the great scale of the coming war, had prepared a wide and cautious plan. But the public had sneered at him and had demanded instant action, the defeat at Bull Run being the result. Dick felt pity for the man who was forced to bear a blame not his own, and who was too old for another chance.

The academics denied the possibility of arriving at truth with certainty; and, therefore, held it uncertain whether the gods existed or not, whether the soul is mortal or survives the body, whether virtue is preferable to vice, or the contrary. They sneered at religious earnestness, and tacitly encouraged influences greatly to be dreaded.

"Whau, what does it mean?" half sneered their leader, scowling resentfully upon Laurence as the warriors crowded around, growling like a pack of baffled wolves. "Had we not better send some in to see if these dogs are indeed all dead?" "Not so, Mashumbwe," was the unconcerned reply. "Tarry until the others arrive, then will we act together." But a furious clamour arose at the words.

Her doubtful character, her capacious mind, her unmethodical manners, were still badly suited to the nice precision of a country housewife; and as the prudent mistress of a family sneered at her pretensions, she, in her turn, scorned the narrow-minded mistress of a family.

"What men has the Duke with him, did you learn?" asked Wilding. "Not more than a hundred or so, from what Dare told us." "A hundred! God help us all! And is England to be conquered with a hundred men? Oh, this is midsummer frenzy." "He counts on all true Protestants to flock to his banner," put in Trenchard, and it was not plain whether he expressed a fact or sneered at one.

She told him, and when she had done he made a compromise. "If I go upon this business, madame, I go not alone." "Oh, as for that," said Marius, "it shall be as you will. Take what men you want with you." "And hang with them afterwards, maybe," he sneered, his insolence returning. "The hundred pistoles would avail me little then.

"Indeed!" sneered the soldier; "then, I suppose you have named him Albert after your pig-headed King!" "No," answered Father De Smet, "I think too much of my King to name my mule after him." "Oh, ho!" said the German; "then perhaps you have named him for the Kaiser!" Netteke had marched steadily along during this conversation, and they were now past the soldier.

Sacre, that shot hits, does it! You thought me asleep, and with no knowledge of your escapade, but I had other eyes open that night, my lady. Now will you confess the truth?" "I shall conceal nothing, Monsieur." "'Twill be best that you make no attempt," he sneered, his old braggart spirit reasserting itself as De Tonty kept silent. "I have guard here to escort you to the Commandant's office."

"Do ye believe " "That he actually will help to fix his own wages? Yes, indeed. And he will be strong and able, then." "Brave times, brave times, of a truth!" sneered the prosperous smith. "Oh, and there's another detail. In that day, a master may hire a man for only just one day, or one week, or one month at a time, if he wants to." "What?" "It's true.

Jorce saying I was with him on that night?" sneered the Count. "Partly, and partly about a lady you know." Ferruci frowned. "You speak of Mrs. Vrain?" "No," replied Lucian coolly. "I speak of Mrs. Clear." At the mention of this name, which was the last one he expected to hear his visitor pronounce, the Italian, in spite of his coolness and cunning, could not forbear a start. "Mrs.