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Updated: May 12, 2025
Assenting Annie didn't throw any back, as Annie is merely as assenter, but neither of the honorable ladies who were coming to break my bread knew that Susie McDougal's ears were hearing ears. Susie says pompous-class people often act as if plainer-class ones weren't made of flesh and blood. "And Mrs. Deford thinks, with Mr. Brickhouse, that there's to be champagne to-night.
It was, indeed, impossible to listen to his conversation without seeing that he was born a debater. To him, as to his uncle, the exercise of the mind in discussion was a positive pleasure. With the greatest good nature and good breeding, he was the very opposite to an assenter.
Thus he became a tacit assenter in wrong-doing, for circumstances thrust this, once in a while, upon the best of our citizens. The afternoon wore cool; nay, cold is a better word.
Not a ruffle of discord in the establishment of these salient facts the marriage of Madame Delcassé to the pasha and the existence of the daughter. Wonderful man McLean. He had never half appreciated him. But the pasha was not wholly the simple assenter. "Do I understand," he inquired, "that there is a fortune coming from France for my daughter?"
After this, a little home-made wine forcibly administered, and then much kissing, and Lucy rode away revivified and cheered, and quite another girl. Her spirits rose so that she proposed to Kenealy to extend their ride by crossing the country to . She wanted to buy some gloves. "Yaas," said the assenter; and off they cantered. In the glove-shop who should Lucy find but Eve Dodd.
The poet, however, it is admitted, was not a good hunter of preferment. He could not play the assenter, and bow and importune: and sovereigns, however friendly they may have been before their elevation, go the way of most princely flesh when they have attained it. They like to take out a man's gratitude beforehand, perhaps because they feel little security in it afterwards.
Presently he called on his comrades to stop, and held with them a long palaver, in which the French horn seemed to be an objector, and the trombone an assenter, while the key-bugle didn't seem to care. At last they all came to an agreement.
Thus he became a tacit assenter in wrong-doing, for circumstances thrust this, once in a while, upon the best of our citizens. The afternoon wore cool; nay, cold is a better word.
The existence of such a temptation, and the fact that too many yield to it, are both declared in the Latin for a flatterer 'assentator' that is, 'an assenter'; one who has not courage to say No, when a Yes is expected from him; and quite independently of the Latin, the German, in its contemptuous and precisely equivalent use of 'Jaherr, a 'yea-Lord, warns us in like manner against all such unmanly compliances.
Thus he became a tacit assenter in wrong-doing, for circumstances thrust this, once in a while, upon the best of our citizens. The afternoon wore cool; nay, cold is a better word.
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