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I have been particularly determined to the course I now take by the opinion I entertain of your upright character, and by the personal esteem I have conceived towards you, of which I am very happy, M. le General Bonaparte, to give you here an assurance. In fact, it was only on the arrival of the Comte de Cobentzel that the negotiations were seriously set on foot.

But the hatred cf Leicester was sufficient to consign this able and painstaking public servant to a prison; and thus was a man of worth, honour, and talent, who had been placed in a position of grave responsibility and immense fatigue, and who had done his duty like an upright, straight-forward Englishman, sacrificed to the wrath of a favourite. "Surely, Mr.

President de Nesmond upright, clear-headed magistrate as he was was of very great service to me at the Courts of Justice. He always managed to oblige me and look after my interests and my rights in any legal dispute of mine, or when I had reason to fear annoyance on the part of my husband.

Hunterleys nodded. "Get out of Monte Carlo as quickly as you can, and, above all, don't think anything more of that young lady. Get the idea out of your head as quickly as you can." The young man was sitting upright in his chair. His manner was half minatory. "Say, what do you mean by this?" he demanded. "Exactly what I said just now," Hunterleys rejoined.

We went and bivouacked by the brawling Jihun under a roof of thatch, whose walls were represented by more or less upright wooden posts and debris; for Kagig would not permit anything to stand even for an hour that Turks could come and fortify.

"Truly," quoth he, "I trust I am an upright man, at least, I strive to be; but I know not what thou meanest by such jargon, brother. It were much more seemly, methinks, if yon Dumb man, who hath a sweet voice, would give us a song." At these words a silence fell on all, and after a while the Blind man spoke again.

The people draw a wick through their bodies, which is lighted at the mouth; they are then fixed upright, and burn beautifully." "How curious they must look!" said Annie. "Rather so; but now watch this one running on the deck; it can't fly unless we help it by a little toss up such as the waves would give it."

Family feeling lingered in her, and this must put an end for the present to her plans of amusement. "Tell her to enjoy her evening as if nothing had happened," cried Goriot. He had been lying in a sort of stupor, but he suddenly sat upright as Eugene went out. Eugene, half heartbroken, entered Delphine's.

So they entered the yard in Indian file, like a tramp and his wife. The groom's eyebrows rose as he received the order for the pony-phaeton, and kept rising during all his preparations. Esther stood bolt upright and looked steadily at some chickens in the corner of the yard.

As the result of earthquakes, scarce a house stood upright some leaned sideways, and looked as if they were going to topple over into the road; while others leaned back, as if, were you to push against them, they would collapse and crush the inmates. Their night was not a pleasant one.