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Leroy leaned back in her chair; the faintest possible gesture indicated her daughter, who had risen and stood beside her. "Colonel Driscoll," she said in a low, uneven voice, "my daughter wishes me to say to you that she appreciates deeply the honor you do her, and that if you wish it she will be your wife. She she is sure she will be happy."
Whether we know it or know it not, whether we are able to ascertain it or not to ascertain it, the course of duty is finer than the edge of a razor and grosser than even a mountain. When, however, it is examined by the learned, it disappears and becomes invisible. Some become so, urged by the wishes of others.
I see you are careful tenants, and as long as you keep my wishes respected about that locked cupboard, it will be safe; far safer than if I carried it about with me, as I thought of doing. If you wish to correspond with me at any time, my agents in London will forward anything to me. I will give you their card. One thing I am going to leave with you, and this shows the confidence I place in you.
It is not the value of the observation itself he is solicitous about; but he wishes to shine by contrast even nature only serves as a foil to set off his style. Whatever he does, he must do in a more decided and daring manner than any one else he lounges with extravagance, and yawns so as to alarm the reader!
The first is: To definitely set before the public that which it wishes to have set before it, the views and codes of life by which the public lives and in which it believes. This way is the most common, successful, and popular. It makes the dramatist's position sure, and not too obviously authoritative.
"I'm a friend of Miss Van Tuyn." "What has that to do with me? Why do you try to interfere with me?" "Miss Van Tuyn I saw her this morning wishes me to see to it that you leave her alone, get out of her life." "Are you her father, a relation?" "No." "Then what have you to do with it? You you impertinent old man!"
But as I didn't know what your venerable ladyship would have to say about it, your servant did not presume to act recklessly, but waited until I could ascertain your wishes before I took upon myself to open my mouth with the parties concerned."
Stay, then, Sir Siegfried, that thou mayest show thy skill in the great tournament. Yet it was neither the wishes of the King nor the thought of the tournament which made Siegfried willing to linger on still in the fair Burgundian town. It was the image of a gentle maiden, whom yet he had never seen, which kept him from speeding home to his own country.
But the Senor Montefalderon kept in view, principally, his desire to be useful to Mexico, blended a little too strongly, perhaps, with the wishes of a man who was born near the sun, to avenge his wrongs, real or fancied.
Of course a man who wishes to keep in the first flight must expect to face a certain number of tumbles; but even he will probably not be hurt at all, and he can avoid many a mishap by easing up his horse whenever he can that is, by always taking a gap when possible, going at the lowest panel of every fence, and not calling on his animal for all there is in him unless it cannot possibly be avoided.
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