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He gives up all hope of seeing them again, but he dare not utter a word of complaint. It often happens that, when a slave wishes to visit his wife on another plantation, his own master is busy or from home, and therefore he cannot get a pass. He ventures without it.
Godwin tells how the reaction burst over him, and he dates it from 1797: "After having for four years heard little else than the voice of commendation, I was at length attacked from every side, and in a style which defied all moderation and decency.... The cry spread like a general infection, and I have been told that not even a petty novel for boarding-school misses now ventures to aspire to favour unless it contains some expression of dislike or abhorrence to the new philosophy."
Blyth beckoned to Madonna, and began talking on her fingers. "No signs of Zack yet are there, love?" The girl looked anxiously towards the window, and shook her head. "If he ventures up here, when he does come, we must not be so kind to him as usual. He has been behaving very badly, and we must see if we can't make him ashamed of himself." Madonna's color rose directly.
The fair siren herself prepares the favorite draught; she strains it with special care, sweetens it, tastes it, and hands it to him; then, with a smile, she ventures like a submissive odalisque to make a joke, with a view to smoothing the wrinkles on the brow of her lord and master.
"Yes, I know," replied Lester, calmly. "I used to think, when I was much younger that my son's matrimonial ventures would never concern me, but I changed my views on that score when I got a little farther along. I began to see through my business connections how much the right sort of a marriage helps a man, and then I got rather anxious that my boys should marry well.
And she pushes her ventures with a bold hand; she makes timidity strong, and weakness valiant. The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him, coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made. And the making of a man's way comes only from that quickening of resolve which we call Ambition.
"There's no doubt of that; but I suppose the fact won't have much effect on you." "No," returned Vane decidedly, "We had our troubles in other ventures, and somehow we got over them I don't see why we shouldn't do the same again. Now that we've seen the country, we ought to get some useful information out of Hartley we'll know what to ask him."
In most affairs, except those which related to his matrimonial ventures, Marcus Antonius Saterlee was a patient man. On three occasions "an ardent temperament and the heart of a dove," as he himself had expressed it, had corralled a wife in worship and tenderness within his house.
This discovery resulted in her holding her vivid head very high, and answering "I couldn't really say," or "Is that so?" to all Mr. Fairford's ventures; and as these were neither numerous nor striking it was a relief to both when the rising of the elderly lady gave the signal for departure. In the hall, where young Marvell had managed to precede her. Undine found Mrs.
"Nonsense!" her husband retorted. "We can't bother about all the malice of all the slanderers in Rome. Other people's daughters are remaining. Lucconius means to stay here in Rome with his family. If he ventures to keep Flexinna here we might venture to leave Brinnaria behind." "You might," that self-assertive child cut in, "and you know there is really no use in taking me if I do not want to go.
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