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Faith, Lord Humphrey, there is a decided difference, and if you be other than a monster of depravity you will henceforth, I think, preserve your hands immaculate." To Marian the Duke said a vast number of things, prompted by a complaisant thrill over the fact that, in view of the circumstances, his magnanimity must to the unprejudiced appear profuse and his behavior tolerably heroic.
He only insisted that some faithful and able Ministers should be removed, and others appointed in their place, more complaisant and less honest. New plans of Bonaparte, however, delivered Portugal from this plague; but what did it obtain in return? another grenadier Ambassador, less brutal but more cunning, as abandoned but more dissimulating.
There is a decided incongruity between Theodore as a man as Theodore, in fine and the dear fellow as the intellectual agent, confidant, complaisant, purveyor, pander what you will of a battered old cynic and dilettante a worldling if there ever was one. There seems at first sight a perfect want of agreement between his character and his function.
The usual landing-place was at a quarter of a mile's distance from the Lodge, and although the tide did not admit of the large boat coming quite close to the jetty of loose stones which served as a pier, Jeanie, who was both bold and active, easily sprung ashore; but Mrs., Dolly positively refusing to commit herself to the same risk, the complaisant Mr.
Archibald by saying that she had seen Madge formerly, and wished to know, as a matter of humanity, how she was attended to under her present misfortunes. That complaisant person immediately went to the workhouse, or hospital, in which he had seen the sufferer lodged, and brought back for reply, that the medical attendants positively forbade her seeing any one.
Happy to have a complaisant listener, Balzajette did all the talking, so that Saniel had only to reply "yes" or "no" from time to time, and of course it was not of Madame Dammauville that he spoke, but other matters of a first representation on the previous evening at the Opera Comique; of politics; of the next salon.
Cæsar wished to be told of his own clemency among the men of his own country. But because Cæsar boasted, and Cicero was complaisant, posterity is not to run away with the boast, and call it true.
I rejoice, monsieur, at anything that contributes to your happiness, said Elizabeth, but hope we are not going to lose you entirely. The complaisant shopkeeper changed the language to French and recounted rapidly to Elizabeth his hopes of being permitted to return to his own country.
But his thoughts, if not his hopes, received a check when, with every plan made and Miss Weeks, as well as Reuther, in trembling anticipation of the journey, he encountered the triumphant figure of Flannagan coming out of Police Headquarters. His jaunty air, his complaisant nod, admitted of but one explanation. He had told his story to the chief authorities and been listened to.
"Why did she not ask you for the moon, sire, as you are such a complaisant husband?" "I would have tried for it, Chicot, I love my dear Margot so much!" "You will have quite enough to do with Cahors, and we shall see how you will get out of it." "Ah! yes, the moment is critical and very disagreeable. Ah! I am not brave, and my nature revolts at every cannonade.
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