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My panic was as unreasonable as my security had been, for there was no reason to believe that Dr. Orzovensky would warn the authorities, or that I could not have carried the dispatches back to Kossuth in safety.
"What is it?" I asked. "You seem to have some wish that I cannot conjecture; and you can trust by this time my anxiety to gratify every desire of yours, reasonable or not if indeed you ever were unreasonable." "She is so sad, so lonely," Eveena answered, "and she is so fond of Eunané." "You don't mean that you want me to make her an offer!" I exclaimed in extreme amazement.
Every college professor of literary composition who has accused a student of falsity in some passage of a story that the student has submitted has been met with the triumphant but unreasonable answer, "Oh, no, it's true! It happened to a friend of mine!"
When they reached the door the agent turned upon them with an appealing face. 'Don't come in with me, gentlemen. I could never hold up my head again. 'It is for Mr. Crosse to decide. 'I don't want to be unreasonable, Farintosh. Go in alone and draw the money. They could never understand why he begged for that extra five minutes.
Come, come, don't be unreasonable, Mr. Blaine." Sally shuffled about, coughed, arose, sat down again, and Joe laughed. "Can't do it. Not even Rockefeller could buy a line of my paper." "Do you mean it?" "Absolutely flatly." "Well, what a shame! But never mind. Some other time. Tell me, Mr. Blaine" he leaned forward "what are you? One of these bloody socialists?" "No, I'm not a socialist."
But he was not ready to abandon his favorite idea because it had been shown to be unreasonable and impossible. Just the opposite effect showed itself and he seized the opportunity of turning an intellectual defeat into a spiritual triumph.
Two years' arrearages to be paid, not in cloth at four times what the contractors had paid for it, but in solid gold were their not unreasonable demands after years of as hard fighting and severe suffering as the world has often seen. But Philip, instead of ducats or cloth, had only sent orders to go forth and conquer a new kingdom for him.
Many boys who are hampered by unreasonable diffidence, a lack of normal self-confidence and self-assertion, find unexpected ability and positiveness through this avenue alone and, on the other hand, the physical test and encounter of the game serves to bring a proper self-rating to the overconfident. Dr.
I think he must have been working too hard, or suffering from some secret illness, for I had already told a hundred men that it was not in me to make a plot of any kind, and that if I had been responsible for this one it would never have been successful. Murray's indignation came too late to have any effect, and as I thought he was quite unreasonable I made no attempt to pacify him.
Two simples were offered for the cure of the body politic, racked by the fever and convulsion of ten horrible years two simples which the patient could hardly be so unreasonable as to reject unlimited despotism and religious persecution.
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