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Updated: May 9, 2025
All public affairs passed through her hands. The King decided nothing without conferring with the Queen and her. While excluding almost all the ministers from public offices, Madame des Ursins admitted a few favourites into her confidence.
A pang of despair shot through Lanyard when he heard them conferring together in the German tongue. Death, then, was but a little delayed. Thereafter he lay in dumb apathy, save that he shivered and his teeth chattered uncontrollably.
Yet I felt that, even without taking a direct and active part in public affairs, I should as soon as I was in Corsica, be under the necessity of yielding to the desires of the people, and of frequently conferring with the chiefs.
Men think giving dinners is conferring a favour on you... Why not give dinners to those who need them? No! His heart was set upon a very different object. 'To each is allotted a distinct work, to each a destined goal; to some the seat at the right hand or left hand of the Saviour. That is to know the resurrection. But the Holy Bible was not his only solace.
But he did not walk up the aisle with his usual consciousness of the honour he was conferring on the building. He never would agree to an exchange of pulpits with Mr. Meredith again, and he was barely civil to the latter when they met for a few minutes at the station the next morning. But Faith felt a certain gloomy satisfaction. Adam was partially avenged.
The shudder of death shook his soul, and he passed. A week after the funeral of Colonel Cresswell, John Taylor drove out to the school and was closeted with Miss Smith. His sister, installed once again for a few days in her old room at the school, understood that he was conferring about Emma's legacy, and she was glad.
For they think themselves much before you in wit, and under no obligation, but rather conferring a favour, by doing the thing that you do. Hence, if I cared for influence which means, for the most part, making people do one's will, without knowing it my first step toward it would be to be called, in common parlance, "slow but sure."
Two doctors were conferring in the recess of the window; an apothecary was mixing drugs at a table; and two of the oldest female servants of the house were standing near the physicians, trying to overhear what was said. "My dear, dear uncle, how are you?" asked Lumley. "Ah, you are come, then," said the dying man, in a feeble yet distinct voice; "that is well I have much to say to you."
He no longer need seek for experiences and material to turn into copy. He was now a man with a responsible position one who soon would be conferring with cabinet ministers and putting ambassadors At their ease. He wondered if a beautiful heiress, whose hand was sought in marriage by the nobility of England, would understand the importance of a London correspondent. He hoped someone would tell her.
As soon as the notary had departed, Julien came to the determination of transforming into a study the hall where he had been conferring with Maitre Arbillot, which was dignified with the title of "library," although it contained at the most but a few hundred odd volumes.
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