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When Darsie plaintively declared that she hadn't got a fancy dress, and would not have time to send home for it if she had, a third-year girl silenced her by a stern counter-question: "And where, pray, would be the fun if you had, and could?
And yet it was not of the duchess only that I thought as I went. There were also in my mind the indignant pride with which Marie Delhasse had questioned me, and the shrinking shame in her eyes at that counter-question of mine. The Duke of Saint-Maclou's invitation seemed to bring as much disquiet to one of his guests as it had to his wife herself.
After Epameinondas had once laid out the reasons in support of his assertion, he might then, if the same brief question were angrily put to him a second time, meet it with another equally brief counter-question or retort.
The situation was becoming desperate and Keith was watching his father with steadily increasing concern, when at last a helpful hint reached him from the most unexpected quarter. "Why don't you look in the paper," Granny asked him one day. "What for," was Keith's surprised counter-question. "For work, of course. Look at the advertisements on the back page."
'Ralph, why art thou not here? was the counter-question. Thoreau had brave nerves. To live in peace in this malicious swamp of a world we must all wear iron masks until we are carted off to the domino-park; pious people call it the cemetery. Now, I'm going to sleep. I'm tired of all this jabbering. We are crazy for sure, or else we wouldn't talk so much."
Adopting Luke's version of our Lord's answer, the counter-question, which begins it, lays hold of the polite address, which had slipped from the ruler's lips as mere form, and bids him widen out his conceptions of 'good. Jesus does not deny that He has a right to the title, but questions this man's right to give it Him.
"My darling Why not permit me to call you that when it is the simple and sincere truth?" An astonished little voice in Sheila's brain here seemed to counter-question mechanically "Why not, indeed?" "I cannot think of anything but you and how I love you. These little notes I am going to keep a-sending you are messengers of love.
"What makes you suppose that?" asked Erica, in a cool, quiet voice. Her perfect self-control, and her exceedingly embarrassing counter-question, quite took him aback. At that very minute, too, there was the pause, and the slight movement, and the glance from Lady Caroline which reminded him that he was the only clergyman present, and had to return thanks.
"You're an ideal chaperon, Penny," murmured Nan with approval. "Chaperons are superfluous women nowadays. And you and Maryon are so nearly engaged that you wouldn't require one even if they weren't out of date." "Are we?" A queer look of uncertainty showed in Nan's eyes. One might almost have said she was afraid. "Aren't you?" Penelope's counter-question flashed back swiftly.
"Well, what of it?" was the counter-question. "Can you honestly say you wish you hadn't met him, a real man like that?" There was silence. Julius moved cautiously across the room, avoiding chairs as best he could. "Be honest now. Isn't he the real thing? And isn't Ridge Jordan " "Please don't talk about poor Ridge that way, Jule." "Poor Ridge!" cried Julius.
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