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But Murat's conduct and Ferdinand's character rendered difficult, if not impossible, any course which would combine the consummation of his fixed designs with even the slightest degree of popular good will in Spain.
I have, however, ventured to combine them here instead of making two separate tales of them. In telling the story one has to slur over the pronunciation of "Paradise," making the last vowel short, so as to explain the misunderstanding about "Paris."
If there was any force in the patriotic idea I shouldn't sell a single cigarette. My people are in the big tobacco combine. You must have read the sort of things the newspapers wrote about us when we started. From any point of view, British Imperial or Irish National, we should have been boycotted long ago if patriotism had anything to do with trade. But look at the facts.
She discussed the singers, showing her usual half-slipshod discrimination, dropping here and there criticisms full of acuteness. "Altogether," she concluded, "it has been a most interesting and unusual evening. Ah, there is Monsieur Gillier!" Gillier came up and received congratulations. His expression was very strange. It seemed to combine something that was morose with a sort of exultation.
Besides enabling a woman to judge a recipe, a knowledge of the correct proportions for things of this kind makes it possible for her to combine the ingredients for a certain recipe without resorting to a cook book, or, in other words, to originate a recipe.
Let him take my uncle into his counsels again, if he pleases; let them combine all their ingenuity, and wickedness, and power, and bring them all to bear on me at once; let them do their worst they shall not gain one concession from me; not one smile, not one word, not one single look of tolerance so help me heaven! And they know it, mother! they know it! And why?
Then, if we combine with this the fact, that there is no limit to the minuteness of etheric waves, we see that however fine may be the particles constituting any form, it is always possible to have etheric waves still finer and thus able to penetrate that form and set up vibrations in it.
I retorted, "you, madame, who are easily excited, and who, understanding so well the most imperceptible emotions, are able to cultivate in a man's heart the most delicate of sentiments, without crushing it, without shattering it at the very outset, you who have compassion for the tortures of the heart, and who, with the wit of the Parisian, combine a passionate temperament worthy of Spain or Italy "
And you combine your job with an idealism just as I do mine. You say "it's for the country" or "for the army," as you did just now. And I scribble and collect for art's sake for beauty's sake for the honour of human genius what you like! What then could be more reasonable more natural' the Squire drew himself up gravely 'than that you and I should join forces permanently?
How he reasoned Lester did not know he could not follow the ramifications of a logic which could combine hard business tactics with moral rigidity, but somehow his brother managed to do it. "He's got a Scotch Presbyterian conscience mixed with an Asiatic perception of the main chance." Lester once told somebody, and he had the situation accurately measured.
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