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Do you think that I do not see through these dummy waiters, these obsequious shopmen, these ladies who drop their eyes when I pass, these commissionaires, these would-be acquaintances? I tell you that they irritate me, this incompetent, futile crowd. You pit them against me! Bah! You should know better. When I choose to disappear, I shall disappear, and no one will follow me.
"Right," said Jeff. "I'll get a confession out of him if I have to wring his neck and I'll get it on a soundscriber!" "Good. Come on, Jane," said Strong. "This is the finish of a would-be tyrant!" Jeff turned and dashed back into the building, while Strong and Jane climbed into the jet car and roared off toward the spaceport.
The friends had reached an angle of the road where a few withered tree branches alone separated them from the others. They perceived the brown body of the carriage, half open like a huge rat-trap, and beside it the forbidding faces of their would-be captors.
Further, I gather that you are his nearest relative." "Sir Michael was very cruel to my mother, sir," I said slowly. "You have nothing to gain by the harbouring of ancient grievances," the Duke replied. "I have always known Sir Michael as a just if a somewhat stern man. Please, however, do not look upon me in any way as a would-be mediator.
That such is the plain unglamoured view of the procedure is shown by the age at which the object is adopted. Usually the future son or daughter enters the adoptive household as an infant, intentionally so on the part of the would-be parents.
In his gracious sympathy, in his would-be friendly advice, in his indulgent explanation of the past, such consciousness of his superiority is manifest! It is so agreeable and cheering for him to let himself feel every instant what a clever person he is, and how kind! And how little he understands what he has done!
The two remaining essays show us Mr Arnold, in his character of at least would-be practical statesman, dealing no longer with points of doctrine but with the affairs of the Church as a political body.
One barrel of the revolver discharged itself harmlessly against the opposite wall, and the pistol itself then fell from the unnerved hand of the would-be assassin; and what with the pain and the sudden shock, the stalwart Dombinsky fell in the attitude of a suppliant at the feet of his unlooked-for vanquisher.
He slanders the work of God in order that His children may not come into their inheritance. The "bear-skin" frightens the would-be seeker and keeps him out of the Canaan land. Darkness hates light. The Prince of Darkness dreads truth and light, for he knows that if God's children ever see sanctification as it is, there will be a general stampede for consecration.
He sat down by her and there followed a long silence, one of those pauses full of meaning. 'When shall we three meet again? at length said Charles, in a would-be lively tone. 'And where? said Amy. 'Here, said Charles; 'you will come here to tell your adventures, and take up Bustle. 'I hope so, said Guy. 'We could not help it.
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