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All Frenchmen have the first; set them an example they much need in the second. I, too, love my country, though I owe to it little enough, heaven knows. I suppose love of country is inherent in all who are not Internationalists. They profess only to love humanity, by which, if they mean anything practical, they mean a rise in wages." "Always cynical, Victor always belying yourself.
He locked the door behind him, and by the light of two wax candles undressed himself, but as he was taking off his stockings O disaster unworthy of such a personage! there came a burst, not of sighs, or anything belying his delicacy or good breeding, but of some two dozen stitches in one of his stockings, that made it look like a window-lattice.
But although here was a new Dorothea, belying all experience, his instinct for handling men and women told him at once what had happened. He had driven her too far. He was even clever enough to foresee that winning her back to obedience would be a ticklish, almost desperate, business; and even sensitive enough to redden at his blunder.
That night, as old travellers phrase it, we lay at Waverly, on the frontier of Pennsylvania, a sad, dirty little town, grotesquely belying its romantic name, and only surpassed in squalor by the classically named Athens beware, reader, of American towns named out of classical dictionaries!
So that means I'll be away from Wednesday morning and I think this match will be as efficacious as anything else in keeping you out of mischief during my absence!" "I'm glad we'll have something!" Jim said, his grin belying his meek voice. "Well, we'll have to see who can play." "You two boys, of course," said his father. "And Cecil do you play?" "Not for worlds, thank you," said Cecil, hastily.
How often I felt, in these days, that there is a fortitude needed by man much greater than that of jeopardising his life! Life! what is it? Here was that poor Crasweller, belying himself and all his convictions just to gain one year more of it, and then when the year was gone he would still have his deposition before him! Is it not so with us all?
"Nay, nay!" said I, with my heart leaping against my ribs, but my voice belying it. "If I agree to that, then later you will swear I am his friend and condemn me in one judgment with him!" "Nay," said he. "Nay truly! On the honor of a Sikh!" "Mine is also the honor of a Sikh," said I, "and I will cover it with care. Go back to them," I directed, "and let them all come and speak with me at dawn."
Rooney lies, as I'm confident, sir for she come in quite mad, and abused my sister Honor; accusing her, before all, of being sitting and giving her company to Randal Rooney at Flaherty's, drinking, and something about a ring, and a meeting behind the chapel, which I couldn't understand; but it fired me, and I stepped but I recollected I'd promised Honor not to let her provoke me to lift a hand good or bad so I stepped across very civil, and I said to her, says I, Ma'am, it's all lies some one has been belying Honor McBride to you, Mrs.
"Oh, Sue! ... But of course it is right you couldn't have done better!" He glanced at her and their eyes met, the reproach in his own belying his words. Then he drew his hand quite away from hers, and turned his face in estrangement from her to the window. Sue regarded him passively without moving. "I knew you would be angry!" she said with an air of no emotion whatever.
She opened the door, and her heart gave a sudden leap as she became aware of, rather than saw in the dusk, the tall, broad-shouldered form of Du Meresq. Bluebell came stiffly forward, and offered a cold hand, utterly belying her heart, to Bertie, who bent over it as if sorely tempted, in spite of Mrs. Leigh's presence, to carry it to his lips.
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