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He arrived at Edinburgh again on September 5th, and his presence was the signal for a grand dinner, at which all the notables of the neighbourhood, including many people of title, were present. But, unfortunately, Burton was in one of his disagreeable moods, and by the time dinner was half over, he found that he had contradicted with acerbity every person within earshot.
She looked at him sternly. "This information is that obtainable?" she asked. "Between state authorities and schools, it is." "I don't care," she said indifferently but with a sotto voce of acerbity. "Make your little notes; type them up; publish them. People are amused by so little." "It's just a note." She nodded. "I know that but I'm not noteworthy."
Why can't we manage to assert ourselves? I'm not speaking for myself, of course; I'm a back number" this half hysterically, between a gulp and a giggle "I'm 'gone beyond recall, and nobody knows that better than I myself. No; I'm speaking for all of us. Besides, here's Rosy, just coming up, and " "Thank you, Jane," remarked Rosamund, with some acerbity. "You needn't mind me.
Voltaire pocketed the veiled acerbity without a word, and bowing himself out, made hot haste to pack up and be on his way before an order rescinding the permission was issued. Frederick was a freethinker, a scientist, a poet, and a wit well worthy of the companionship of Voltaire. In fact, they were very much alike. Both had the dual qualities of being intensely practical and yet iconoclastic.
This sort of adulation from one sex was not corrected by any great acerbity from the other.
Dodan need not be disturbed as to my absolute self-control. The very acerbity of my coming misery, through Miss Dodan's absence, fully realized by me, seemed now only to add a desperation of assumed indifference and gayety to all my actions. I argued against delay, and dwelt with excellent effect upon the charms of the visit.
Yet with all these small blemishes Granger had many good qualities, and his big heart was so full of generous impulses and good motives as to far outbalance his short-comings; and not-withstanding the friction and occasional acerbity of our official intercourse, we maintained friendly relations till his death.
Then she caught at a straw: he was no slave-driver now. He had "May I not help you go with you to England?" he questioned over her shoulder. "Like Alexander Selkirk 'I shall finish my journey alone," she said, with sudden but imperfectly assumed acerbity. "Will you not help me, then?" he asked. "We could write a book together." "Oh, a book!" she said. "A book of life," he whispered.
"I did not ask you to speak falsehoods as to my being out sleighing and the rest. I told you to answer that I was not at home, and mind you say the same to the Captain Montalvo if he calls," said Lysbeth with some acerbity as she dismissed her. In truth she was very sore and angry, and yet ashamed of herself because it was so.
He was painfully conscious of the guile of this young man, who had, as it were, cheated him out of that appropriate acerbity of religion, without which a proselyting sect can hardly maintain its ground beneath the shadow of an endowed and domineering Church. War was necessary to Mr. Puddleham.
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