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But, nevertheless, it behoved him above all things to be honest and straightforward with the Dean. There had been something in his interview with his brother to please him, but it had not been all delightful. How was he to keep faith with the Dean? This was Lord George's first trouble after his reconciliation with his brother.
Neither in this speech, nor in the exhortation with which he afterward at Shechem endeavoured to animate the zeal and constancy of his followers, did he make any allusion to the form of government that it behoved them to adopt; declining even to direct their choice in the appointment of a chief, who might conduct their armies in the field, and preside in the deliberations of the national council.
"See there! that was the gate my auld joe used to cross the country, but no just sae lightly he hadna wings to help his auld legs, I trow; but I behoved to have married him for a' that, Jeanie, or my mother wad hae been the dead o' me.
Aweel, they had me up in the grey o' the morning, and I behoved to whig awa wi' them, reason or nane, to a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes; and there this chield, Gabriel Kettledrummle, was blasting awa to them on the hill-side, about lifting up their testimony, nae doubt, and ganging down to the battle of Roman Gilead, or some sic place.
Lying awake the previous night, the hangings of his bed pulsing to every beat of his heart, he decided that there was one last and great service which it behoved him, as an honest man and friend, to say nothing of lover, to render to Ethelberta at this juncture.
He suffered from his inability to do anything at once, from conflict with himself as to whether or not it behoved him to speak with John Hewett; of Clara he thought with anger rather than fear, for her behaviour seemed to prove that nothing had happened save the inevitable breach with Mrs. Tubbs.
Aristocratic as he was in manner, and evidently a man of substance, as behoved a royal cook to be, he yet exercised supervision in the kitchen, not only giving instructions, but inspecting saucepans, to see that the acme of cleanliness was arrived at. For what we may therefore call a royal cuisine, besides excellent accommodation, we were charged the modest sum of seven francs per diem each.
We can thus see how novel and subsidiary passages might attach themselves to the epic. But a day came when the minnesingers of Germany felt that it behoved them to fix once and for all time the shape of the Lay of the Nibelungs. Indeed, not one, but several poets laboured at this task.
Finn was aware that it behoved her to be chary of her invitations, but the lady from the brewery had said such good things of Mrs. Finn's black swan, that she carried her point, and was invited to meet the Cabinet Minister at dinner on the day after his arrival. Mrs. Flood Jones and her daughter were invited also to be of the party. When Phineas had been last at Killaloe, Mrs.
You are too good, too gracious to indulge a girlish vanity at the cost of a man's suspense." Missish and girlish! Miss Waddington felt that it behoved her to look to her character. These were words which had not usually been applied to her. "Indeed, Mr. Bertram, I should think myself unpardonable to keep you in suspense." "Then answer me," said he.
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