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I added however that, if he pleased, it would be much more agreeable to me to defer this serious task, at least till we should return to Paris. He repeated my words, if it would be much more agreeable to me, impatient and uneasy though he owned he was, he must submit. I answered I required no submission, except to reason; to which I hoped both he and I should always be subject.

I think these last volumes even more amusing than the first, and the discussions about Ireland are of peculiar interest at this moment I am very glad that these precious volumes are again in your hands. I felt quite uneasy whilst they were in mine. From the Comte de Paris Chateau d'Eu, le 2 fevrier.

In my raging disappointment I tore it up on the place where I received it, and threw the pieces away. I had staked my whole future on one desperate throw and I had lost. If I had had a pistol " I stopped, warned by an uneasy movement on the part of the man I addressed, that I had better not dilate too much upon my feelings. Indeed, I had forgotten to whom I was talking.

At last, to make me the more uneasy, she ate a grain of rice at intervals only; and instead of eating any of the other meats with me, she only now and then put some crumbs of bread into her mouth, but not so much as a sparrow would have pecked.

The driver illustrated a political ignorance quite common in rural districts ten years ago and not conspicuously rare to-day. He laboured under uneasy suspicions that the support of monarchy was a direct and dismal tax upon the pockets of the poor. "Pity all the fuss ban't about a better job," he said. "Wan auld, elderly lady 's so gude as another, come to think of it.

At last I got so worn out with it all that I fell off into an uneasy sleep, which yet was better than no sleep and a little rested me. When I woke again there was enough light in the room for me to see the water-jug, and that gave me strength to get to it and most blessedly it was nearly full.

There was no time for vain regrets, since the enemy were pushing after the Americans, giving them no pause for a while. When at last there was a cessation in their endeavors at direct assault, Washington was more uneasy than before, and did not rest until he had discovered what it meant.

Atkins, the moment it comes to his hand, to convey it safely to your father or mother; and say nothing of their sending their papers, that it may not make them uneasy; for I want not now to see them on any other score than that of mere curiosity; and that will do at any time.

"How may the possession of the lakes be improved to our advantage? "Why are tumultuous, uneasy sensations united with our desires? "Whether it ought to be the aim of philosophy to eradicate the passions? "How may smoky chimneys be best cured? "Why does the flame of a candle tend upwards in a spire?

I had reached the forest glade and the cabin, but Target was still going hard. What if I could not stop him! Summoning all my strength, I quickly threw weight and muscle back on the reins and snapped the bit out of his teeth. Then coaxing, commanding, I pulled him back. In the glade were four horses, standing bunched with heads and ears up, uneasy, and beginning to be frightened.