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And yet it was what I wanted, was willing to play modern Faust to any Wall Street Mephistopheles " "And you are sure it wasn't a Mephistopheles?" "Of course not for that much I can draw a deep breath and give thanks it was my own luck." "Other times, other titles," she murmured.
So the two Blackfeet who had befriended the brothers received their names, and will be hereafter thus known when we refer to them, instead of using the difficult titles by which they were called by those of their own race. From his seat opposite the door that was closed Victor had noticed a peculiar agitation now and then of the buffalo flap.
Richard sold lands, offices, and titles of honor. Extortion under pretense of public justice. Creating a regency. Richard's regents. John's acquiescence. The time for sailing appointed. Richard crosses the Channel. Fears of treachery. The treaty of alliance between Richard and Philip. Completion of the preparations.
"No, no," interposed Alexis, kissing her hand, "I need neither wealth nor titles; I need nothing, desire nothing but to be near you, to be able to breathe the air that has fanned your cheek. I desire nothing for myself, but everything for my friends here, with whose faithful aid we shall soon be enabled to greet you a real empress." Elizabeth's brow beamed with the purest blessedness.
All civic rights were taken from them; the severest penalties were attached to their slightest infringement of municipal law; their titles to land were limited; the privilege of living within the city walls was allowed them only under galling restrictions; and, last not least, a supreme magistrate, named the Gonfalonier of Justice, was created for the special purpose of watching them and carrying out the penal code against them.
I cannot help, therefore, entreating you to maintain the same high heart, and to accomplish that which you have so worthily begun. Be not deluded by false masks, mumming faces, and borrowed titles, which people assume for their own profit, persuading others that the King's service consists in the destruction of his subjects."
Behold them, arranged symmetrically in a line. 'My Lord. The Baron. The Courier. The Doctor. The Countess. 'I don't trouble myself, you see, to invest fictitious family names. My characters are sufficiently distinguished by their social titles, and by the striking contrast which they present one with another. The First Act opens 'No!
For Heaven's sake consider what an important matter we are called upon to decide. It is not now the titles of those very respectable works which issued from the Minerva Press that I ask you to remember, it is to invent a title for mine, My Novel!" "Excellent! capital! Nothing can be better; simple, natural, pertinent, concise " PISISTRATUS. "What is it, sir, what is it?
* I have generally made use of the titles and distinctions by which the people I mention were known before the revolution; for, besides that I found it difficult to habituate my pen to the republican system of levelling, the person to whom these letters were addressed would not have known who was meant by the new appellations.
He spoke of titles embassies of honors bestowed but upon few. A glorious prospect spreads itself before you! The direct path to the place next the throne lies open to you! Nay, to the throne itself, if the actual power of ruling is equivalent to the mere symbol. Does not that idea awaken your ambition? FERDINAND. No! My ideas of greatness and happiness differ widely from yours.
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