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"How the boys are coming on!" exulted the old major. "They will both wear the stars yet. But confound it all, why did Meade let Lee escape? He might have finished the whole thing up." Alas! the immeasurable price of liberty was not yet paid.
He gets aboard and simply grabs the first thing that seems to him suitable the cabin lamp, a coil of rope, a bag of biscuits, a drum of oil and converts it into money without thinking twice about it. This is the process and no other. You have only to look out that he doesn't get a start. That's all." "Confound his psychology," muttered Jasper.
Do not, however, confound fortitude with apathy; apathy cannot know the virtue. Remember, too, that one act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
What you say, goes." "It does," said Fielding grimly. "And I don't care a damn what I do when my monkey's up. You know that, don't you?" "Rather!" said Dick. And suddenly the resentment died out of his face, and he began to laugh. "All right, sir! Break me if you like! I'll come out on top somehow." "Confound you! Do you think you can defy me?" fumed Fielding. "I'm sure of it," said Dick.
I have offered such interpretations of the mysteries that confound you as appear to me authorized by physiological science. But, for the present, I advise you to accept the guess that may best quiet the fevered imagination which any bolder guess would only more excite." "You are right," said I, rising proudly to the full height of my stature, my head erect and my heart defying.
I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason.
In their secret meetings they professed to celebrate the mysteries of Mythra; and their great object, as they professed to one another, was to confound the wretch, meaning Jesus Christ. Hence their secret watchword was 'Crush the wretch. The following are some of their doctrines, as found in their books expressly designed for general circulation.
And so, growling and complaining, and yet half laughing, Adonis rolled from his couch and began to get into his clothes. Chester's blood ran cold, then boiled. Think of a man who could laugh like that, and remember! When, how, had he returned to the house? Listen! "Confound you, Sloat, I wouldn't rout you out in this shabby way. Why couldn't you let a man sleep? I'm tired half to death."
Lord Chesterfield had taken the same alarm; and being convinced, from the observations he had made, that he had found out the happy lover who had gained possession of his lady's heart, he was satisfied; and without teasing her with unnecessary reproaches, he only waited for an opportunity to confound her, before he took his measures.
The old man rang out the loyal salutation spiritedly, and awoke a prompt response from the mountaineer, who sounded his voice wide in the keen upper air. "There's the heart of that fellow!" said Agostino. "He has but one idea his king! If you confound it, he takes you for an enemy. These free mountain breezes intoxicate you. You would embrace the king himself if you met him here."
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