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It makes me mad to find the girls repeating other authors' sayings, and I never catch a word from a book of yours, though you've been writing more than a century." "Not quite so long, my dear, I think; though very, very long. But just what do you mean by style?"
Why, then, should you be angry because I picked up that which you threw away, that, too, which was always my own and not yours? Had it not been for me, there would now be no maid left for us to quarrel over, as, had it not been for me, there would be no man left for me to quarrel with about the maid." "Are you God, then, Englishman, that you dispose of the lives of men and women at your will?
But I was not to be robbed of my breathing-space in this wise. "Let me crave a wedding gift of you," I said. "It is yours before you name it." "Then give me troops, and set me wide a city gate a mile away from here." "You can gather five hundred as you go from here to the gate, taking two hundred of those that are here. If you want more, they must be fetched from other barracks along the walls.
She opened her eyes and looked at him, then answered quite softly "I think your chain is broken, O Zikali, no more my master. I think that love has cut your chain in two and I fear you never more. Keep the spirit you lent to me; it is yours, but the rest of me is my own, and in the house of my heart another comes to dwell."
Such a nature is usually frank and generous. It believes in the affections it depends upon them. It freely gives its own, but challenges the equally free and spontaneous gift of yours in return. It has little faith in the things which fill the hearts of the mere worldlings. Worldly honors may delight it, but not worldly toys. It has no veneration for gewgaws.
"We love to," said Anne. "We don't know what we should do if Farvie turned us out." "My dear!" from the colonel. "Why, he's our father," said Lydia, in a burst. "He's just as much our father as he is yours." "Good!" said Jeffrey. His voice had warmed perceptibly. "Good for you. That's what I thought."
"Which means, I suppose, that the musketeers are better soldiers than the guards." The cardinal smiled as he spoke. "Every one likes his own uniform best, my lord." "Myself excepted," and again Mazarin smiled; "for you perceive that I have left off mine and put on yours." "Lord bless us! this is modesty indeed!" cried D'Artagnan.
Have you found me truly loving?" "Truly loving? Ah! traitress that you are! Do you, then, confess that I was not mistaken when I guessed that you were a charming woman? And if you truly loved me, tell me how you could contrive to defer your happiness and mine so long? But is it quite certain that I did not make a mistake?" "I am yours all over; see for yourself."
"Have you a young woman on this boat?" he asked. "S'pose I have, what bizness is it of yours?" Eben retorted, now more angry than ever. "You'll know d quick whether it's my business or not if you don't answer my questions." "I don't have to. This boat's me own, an' I kin have anyone I like on board. You clear out of this." "Don't get insolent, you young cuss.
If he invited her, it would, of course, seem presumptuous, considering the poor opinion she had of him; if he passed her over, and invited Walter Clifford and Mrs. Clifford, he should be unjust to his own feelings, and seem disrespectful. Julia's reply: "DEAR MR. FITZROY, I am not at all fond of jealousy, but I am very fond of dancing. I shall come. "Yours sincerely,
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