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"Well, I am not sorry, then," getting hold of her monitor's hand. "Why do you turn against poor me, when I am trying to do my duty?" "Because you are not doing your duty." "Yes, I am; indeed, I am. You don't know." "Then tell me, and let me be your friend and adviser." "But you can't advise," objected Claire, "because you don't know the the other one." "Well, I do know you."
"I can manage," said the prudent adviser, "if you insist on it, to retain that remnant of the hereditary estate which you are so loath to part with. But how? by mortgaging it to an extent that will scarcely leave you L50. a year net from the rents. This is not all.
They are cunning, and many resources are open to them. They would make warriors of these slaves in five months, and they would then be the first to recommence the war!" Cousrouf remained silent for a time. "You are a good general in the field, and a good adviser in the cabinet. I rejoice in your possession!" said he, with his most gracious manner.
We have seen how marked a feature of the Emperor's character was his inability to resist the pertinacious counsels of an adviser with whom he was in constant intercourse; and it is certain that he gave Majad-ud-daulah all the support which his broken power and enfeebled will enabled him to afford. But the danger was now too close and too vast to allow of further weakness.
Fairservice's legal adviser, Clerk Touthope, generously bestowed upon him in exchange for Thorncliff's mare, he had contrived to part with it, and procure in its stead an animal with so curious and complete a lameness, that it seemed only to make use of three legs for the purpose of progression, while the fourth appeared as if meant to be flourished in the air by way of accompaniment.
The medical adviser of the sisterhood was sent for, and prescribed certain remedies which Clara had to administer. A small spoon had been provided for giving some powders in preserve; Clara used it daily for some time, till the Mother Eldress recovered, when the Lady Superior took possession of it.
But these words were not quite ordinary; she had not, he feared, sufficiently pondered them. Indeed and indeed she needed an adviser some sagacious, objective counselor like himself. There she was, standing before Briggs almost holding out her hand to him.
You see, rny friend, I don't suppose you to be a self-conceited fool. You remember how Presumption, in the Pilgrim's Progress, on being offered some good advice, cut his kind adviser short by declaring that Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Feminine tact and diplomacy had long been held in high esteem in France; Louis had been for many years under the influence of the grave Madame de Maintenon; and this influence had been so salutary in every way, that the aged monarch could think of no better adviser for his youthful grandson, in his new and responsible position, than some other woman, equally gifted, who might guide him safely through the political shoals which were threatening him at every turn.
But when you see a cool, reasoning, deliberate tyrant one who was not born and bred to arrogance, who has been nursed in a mercantile line who has been used to look round among his fellow-subjects to transact business with his equals to account for conduct to his master, and, by that wise system of the Company, to detail all his transactions who never could fly one moment from himself, but must be obliged every night to sit down and hold up a glass to his own soul who could never be blind to his deformity, and who must have brought his conscience not only to connive at but to approve of it this it is that distinguishes it from the worst cruelties, the worst enormities of those, who, born to tyranny, and finding no superior, no adviser, have gone to the last presumption that there were none above to control them hereafter.
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