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The resolutions, it was said, ought to be contemplated commercially; and the influence they would probably have on the United States, deliberately weighed. If they were adopted, it ought to be because they would promote the interests of America, not because they would benefit one foreign nation, and injure another. It was an old adage that there was no friendship in trade.
I want to marry with all the bloom on and all my illusions fresh." "But should you like to have them rubbed off by your husband? You've heard the old adage: 'marry in haste and repent " "I've been brought up on adages. They are called bromides now. As for illusions, everybody says they don't last anyway.
And you and I may thank our stars, dear readers, that we are a great deal too sensible to wear our hearts in our sleeves for such a bloodthirsty dew to peck at. Ormiston's flame was longer-lived than Sir Norman's; he had been in love a whole month, and had it badly, and was now at the very crisis of a malady. I can't say whether the adage!
Ethelyn did not intend to dance, but when Judge Miller politely offered to lead her to the floor, saying, as he guessed her thoughts, "Remember the old adage, 'among the Romans, and so forth," she involuntarily assented, and even found herself leading the first cotillion to the sound of Jerry Plympton's fiddle. Mrs.
An Oath of Revenge. How true it is, that in the life of every one, there exists a vein of romance which justifies the adage that "Truth is stranger than fiction." No page of history may bear their names. No chronicle of important events may tell to the world the story of their trials and sufferings.
'All stratagems in love he interrupted, smiling. 'The old adage 'On that night, said Edith, 'and then, the struggle that I long had had with something that was not respect for my good fame that was I know not what perhaps the clinging to that last retreat was ended. On that night, and then, I turned from everything but passion and resentment.
There is an old and not less true adage, that what we wish we readily believe; and so with me I found myself an easy convert to my own hopes and desires, and actually ended by persuading myself no very hard task that my Lord Callonby had not only witnessed but approved of my attachment to his beautiful daughter, and for reasons probably known to him, but concealed from me, opined that I was a suitable "parti," and gave all due encouragement to my suit.
I sat up and listened attentively when I heard my own name mentioned, not forgetful of the adage that listeners hear no good of themselves, but of course I had nothing to fear. "More sensible than I thought Eva could be," the Stunner rejoined. "Forty thousand a year and entailed, so that he can't get through with it.
But I couldn't very well stifle this breath of life of mine!" While inwardly a prey to resentment, she also melted into tears. These words were brought to the ears of Pao-yue and Tai-yue. Neither of them had hitherto heard the adage: "people who are not enemies are not brought together," so when they suddenly got to know the line, it seemed as if they had apprehended abstraction.
The result stands beyond controversy; brought about by a generation now passed on, but to which I belonged. Meanwhile, the ancient adage, the rose is not without its thorn, receives new illustration; for even this great result has not been wrought without giving rise to considerations suggestive of thought.
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