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She had too lofty a self-esteem and too decorous a regard for the moral sentiment of the world that she typified, to do, or connive at, an act which degrades the gentlewoman. Putting her aside, what other female enemy had Lilian provoked? No matter! What other woman at L was worth the condescension of a conjecture?
"You mean you may have after all to give me up?" He forced a very chilly smile. "You remember you asked me to give you up. Now if it were only one subject however important on which we disagreed, I might still do my best, though the responsibility of all you make me connive at is certainly heavy.
It was not because she could not feel for the wrongs of another that she could not feel anguish for her own. Arabella was avenged. The cold-blooded snake that had stung her met the fang of the cobra-capella. Do not think that he will suppose you did not connive at a project so sly; he must know you too well, pretty innocent."
His depredations having exceeded their usual limits, and reached an extent, at which neither the timidity of the then commercial senate of Venice, nor their hope of his occasional assistance would permit them to connive, the same effort, it was resolved, should complete the suppression of his power and the correction of his outrages.
Suppose you winked at our friends drinking these pledges, and we should connive at your sitting still?" But neither would this composition satisfy Bridgenorth, who was of opinion, as he expressed himself, that it would be holding a candle to Beelzebub.
I screamed at his awful appearance. I knew well that he hated my betrothed, and had threatened his life if he married me. He snatched the scarf from my neck, and shaking it at me, said: 'I know very well from whom this came! Then, turning upon Albert, he cried: 'And for you, who pretend to love her, to connive at his guilt!
The history and the termination of this struggle will form the subject of the two following chapters. Britannicus and Acte. Indignation of Agrippina. Otho and Senecio. Perplexity of Nero's ministers. They determine to connive at Nero's new connection. Agrippina is greatly enraged. Her furious invectives. She becomes calm again. Agrippina changes her policy. Nero rejects his mother's advances.
The girl hesitated; then she called Mr. Barker who, acting as his own shop-walker, was strolling up and down with great dignity. Mr. Barker came and she put the matter to him. "Oh, no, sir; I'm afraid we couldn't think of it. Barker's is too old established a house to connive at these sharp modern ways of doing business," said Mr. Barker with a very impressive air.
The slaves of the Portuguese, who are sent by their masters to shoot elephants, probably connive at the extension of this law, for they strive to get the good will of the chiefs to whose country they come, by advising them to make a demand of half of each elephant killed, and for this advice they are well paid in beer.
Did Atheists thus act, did they perpetrate, connive at, or tolerate such atrocities as were brought to light during the Andover inquiry, such cold blooded heartlessness would at once be laid to the account of their principles. Oh yes, Christians are forward to judge of trees by their fruit, except the tree called Christianity.
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