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Oliver Crowe, the celebrated unpublished novelist on a pilgrimage to Paris for to cure their broken hearts and go to the devil like gentlemen. Eh, Ollie?" "Well, that's all right for me," says Oliver combatively. "And I always imagined we'd find each other in hell. I'm not trying to be inhospitable with my own pet red-hot gridiron, but all the same "
His heat abated at once, though he went on combatively, "Oh, I know what you mean, reasonable authority and not tyranny and all that yes, I believe in it of course but this goes beyond " he ended. "Is there or is there not such a thing as parental authority?" Mrs. Marshall answered with apparent irrelevance, "You remember what Cavour said?" "Good Heaven!
A tall, angular, mannish sort of woman, raw-boned, shrill, got up in about the center of the audience, and said, "You've been honest I take it, in what you said this far. But you don't dast to be honest, I'll bet, if I ask you a plain out and out question, Mister?" "You ask it and see if I'm not," retorted Jimmy combatively. "Then what's your honest opinion about votes for women?
Once or twice one of the monsters was seen scrambling among the bushes, but was soon out of sight, and none appeared to be combatively disposed. At length the lower ground was reached, and in a short time they were welcomed by their friends at the village.
Except those who, for financial reasons, were opposed to him, and must therefore pit themselves against him, as the representatives of bigger forces behind them, he was a leader of whom Lebanon was combatively proud. At last he came to the point where his merger was practically accomplished, and a problem arising out of it had to be solved.
"If I have exceeded your speed limit," he said politely, "I shall be delighted to pay the fine. How much is it?" "Judge Allen'll tell you what the fine is," said the selectman gruffly. "And he may want bail." "Bail?" demanded Winthrop. "Do you mean to tell me he will detain us here?" "He will, if he wants to," answered the chief of police combatively.
Barbara saw the bishop shake his head in dissent and, while she was listening with strained ears to his explanation, Viglius, as if singing bass to Granvelle's tenor, repeated again and again at brief intervals, in a low tone, the one word, "Debts," while his green eyes sparkled, sometimes as if asking assent, sometimes combatively.
"Yes; and a fatal one. No man can be wholly great who understands only one half of human impulses." "But what do you mean by wickedness?" demanded Herman, a little combatively. "Oh," laughed Rangely, "I'm not to be entrapped into giving metaphysical and theological definitions. I mean what we are expected to call wickedness, conventionally speaking.
I can't see that any good ever came of criticizing what our parents believed, and it's a queer time for Draper to criticize my belief just as I'm backing it to the extent of five millions." Millner remained silent; and, as though his silence were an argument, Mr. Spence continued combatively: "Draper's always talking about some distinction between religion and morality.
"I dare say. Still it is odd that she should be hiding in the castle of her ances " "Not at all, not at all. It just happens to be a handy place. Perfectly natural." We lapsed into a prolonged spell of silence. I found myself watching him rather combatively, as who would anticipate the move of an adversary. "Perfect rot," said I, at last, without rhyme or reason. He grinned.
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