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I was on the point of giving in my resignation, when I found some petty burgesses, lawyers, advocates without any information about public affairs, quoting the Contrat social, declaiming vehemently against tyranny, abuses, and proposing a constitution apiece.

The outrageous philosopher declares vehemently that no beast of the field or the forest would own such a tail. Either in opposition, or in the support of them, I maintain simply that the blinking sentimentalist helps to make civilization what it is, and civilization has a great deal of merit. "Did you not leave your parasol behind you at Ipley?" said Adela, as she met Cornelia in the afternoon.

'I should get an answer very soon. 'I wish we'd never come across him, cried Margaret vehemently. 'I feel that he will bring us misfortune. 'You're all of you absurdly prejudiced, answered Susie gaily. 'He interests me enormously, and I mean to ask him to tea at the studio. 'I'm sure I shall be delighted to come.

"But it will be just like writing compositions; and that I always did hate!" cried Lulu vehemently. "No, not exactly," said Max; "because you don't have to make up anything, only to tell real happenings and doings that you haven't had time to forget." "And I think you will soon find it making the writing of compositions easier," remarked Violet, with an encouraging smile.

She did not believe the Indians would molest them. Anything to get away from this strange burthen pressing down upon her that she knew not was womanhood, and be free once more. She rose presently and went in. Pani was a heap in the chimney corner, she saw her by the long silver ray that fell across the floor. "Pani! Pani!" she cried vehemently.

It was the only way to carry his plan into execution he must slay the little monster: with one bound, he sprang from the bed upon him; but the other, who might perhaps have anticipated something of the kind, let the lamp fall, which was immediately extinguished, and rushed forth in the dark, crying vehemently for help.

The host scolded her vehemently on account of her clumsiness, and scolded the waiter also till he made them both cry, at least so it seemed; whereupon he chased them both out with the order to return instantly with refreshments. The host, now again in brilliant, excellent, polite humour, let fly with his own hand the corks of two champagne bottles, poured out, and drank with the ladies.

And this old house isn't ours any longer, and those carriage people will begin to tear it down to-morrow. They'll take away the barn and chop down the trees, and there won't be a single thing left to remember it all by." She bent her head on the window-sill again, and sobbed more vehemently still.

"Well, by George!" breathed the man dazedly, as he took the offered violin. The next moment he had demanded vehemently: "For Heaven's sake, who ARE you, boy?" David's face wrinkled in grieved surprise. "Why, I'm David. Don't you remember? I was here just the other day!" "Yes, yes; but who taught you to play like that?" "Father." "'Father'!" The man echoed the word with a gesture of comic despair.

The abbess, who had been concealed by a wall of chests piled one above another, now came forward and laid her hand upon the shoulder of a little elderly woman, who must have been disputing vehemently with the old housekeeper, Martsche, for she was flushed with excitement, and the housekeeper's chin still quivered.