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The fact is, Arabella, this unfortunate man has the... the temerity to love you." She cried out at that, and clutched her breast whose calm was suddenly disturbed. Her eyes dilated as she stared at him. "I... I've startled you," said he, with concern. "I feared I should. But it was necessary so that you may understand." "Go on," she bade him.

Baroni could not deny himself that last sting of his vengeance; yet, as he saw the faces of the men on whom he flung the insult, he felt for the moment that he might pay for his temerity with his life. He put his hand above his eyes with a quick, involuntary movement, like a man who wards off a blow.

Full of arrogance and temerity when affairs were prosperous, plunged in abject cowardice when dangers and reverses came such was the People such it must ever be. Thus blustered the priests and the parasites surrounding the archduke, nor need their sentiments amaze us.

"Yes, go to her," replied his mother; "but let it be to inform her that we disdain her bounty; that we are astonished at her temerity in offering it; and that we hope never to hear from her again." Count Tristan had left the room before his mother had finished speaking, an act of disrespect of which he had never before been guilty.

Herein lies the difference, slight apparently, yet significant, between the first Kentucky and the first Tennessee * colonies. Within the memory of the Indians only one tribe had ever attempted to make their home in Kentucky a tribe of the fighting Shawanoes and they had been terribly chastised for their temerity.

Meanwhile, the Danish invaders in Essex, having united their force under the command of Hastings, advanced into the inland country, and made spoil of all around them; but soon had reason to repent of their temerity. Sax. p. 94. But though the king had thus honourably rid himself of this dangerous enemy, he had not entirely subdued or expelled the invaders.

Would one not say that the Shogun, in writing these lines, foresaw the magnificent efforts which we are witnessing each day and that from the depths of time he caught a glimpse of these brave conquerors of the air and of space, whose great deeds, seeming at times the result of a crazy temerity, are in reality only homage rendered to common sense, which has permitted them to calculate the value of their initiative without mistake?

A prudent and intelligent woman, turning this part of his character to advantage, might have formed this man to virtue, probity, and the love of the human race: but, from his infancy, his will had never suffered restraint, and he thought nothing impossible. As a soldier, he was bold even to temerity; capable of the most hazardous enterprise, and laughing at the danger he provoked.

In the case of a separation a mensa et thoro alimony was allowed the wife for her support out of her husband's estate at the discretion of the ecclesiastical judges. The initiative in divorce by Act of Parliament was usually taken by the husband; not until 1801 did a woman have the temerity so to assert her rights.

There is not the slightest doubt that he discovered the mine, and that he has not yet paid the penalty for his temerity." "I presume the penalty is coming," Gurdon said. "What a creepy sort of idea it is, that terrible vengeance reaching across a continent in such a sinister fashion. But don't forget that we know something as to the way in which this thing is to be brought about.