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Rousseau's letter remained unanswered, nor is there any reason to suppose that Voltaire ever got through it, though Rousseau chose to think that Candide was meant for a reply to him.
"Give a woman the last word always; but be sure it is a question, which you leave unanswered." He was a beau ideal commissioner. The native newspaper said so when he first came, having painfully selected the phrase from a "Dictionary Of Polite English for Public Purposes" edited by a College graduate at present in the Andamans.
In my heart I knew there was something sadly lacking in our national work for the Church, but I could do nothing myself. He wrote to his own State for help, but the letters were unanswered. Except for the few stipends I could give him and which he devoted to his work, it was impossible to do anything.
The death of Captain Brocq coincides with the loss of a certain secret document: is it for you or for us to institute an enquiry into it?" After a pause, Juve's retort was: "You must permit me to leave that question unanswered."
A first attempt at burglary is not in all its aspects heroic, and I was wet, chilled, and anxious. "First actor on," murmured Merton. "Should like to have seen that interview. Can't be actor and audience both." I hazily reflected that for myself I was both, and that the actor had just then a sharp fit of stage-scare. I let him run on unanswered, while the rain poured down my back.
"If the doctor and Harriet were only out of this!" he exclaimed. "It makes me sick to think of the future!" He picked up Nan's unanswered letter and read it again and the faint perfume of the delicate paper stole into his heart with a thousand aching memories. He seized his pen at last, set his face like flint and resolutely wrote his answer: Dear Nan: Your letter is very kind.
Meanwhile, he sat on and left his companion's occasional sallies unanswered. In the street men stirred and lanthorns gleamed fitfully, whilst ever and anon a face surmounted by a morion would be pressed against the leaded panes of the window. Thus an hour wore itself out during which poor Hogan sat above, alone with his anxiety and unsavoury thoughts.
We made the private signal, which was unanswered, and we cleared for action; the brig making all sail on the starboard tack, and we following her she bearing about two miles on out weather-bow.
Many bathers had there prayed for a dry death from time to time, and, like Gonzalo also, had been unanswered; and Troy began to deem it possible that he might be added to their number.
Then quickening his pace, he had passed on with his son and his farm-hand, and his little grandson high up on the sheaves of golden grain. And she had stood there unanswered and had stared like a simpleton at the bits of white foam which had dripped from the mouths of the laboring oxen. Why had Nicholas not stayed to answer her question?
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