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But, beneath it all, a paralysis is on everything the paralysis of the excessive administration with which the French have ruined Indo-China. There are too many people in front of the cafés and too few in the offices and shops. There is too much drinking and too little work. The officials are alternately melancholy and overbearing; the natives cringing and sullen. It is not a wholesome atmosphere.
There was no reply to his knock, and he tapped again, and then timidly, and cringing subserviently, opened the door and stepped inside. He withdrew himself at once and stared stupidly at me, shaking his head. "'She is not there, he said. He stood for a moment gazing blankly through the open door, and then hastened toward the dining-room.
There was in it no uncalled for ostentation no purse- proud vulgarity no cringing to great, and no patronizing condescension to little people; even the Sunday newspapers could not find fault with her, and the querulous wives of younger brothers could only sneer and be silent.
For while you were cringing before him, and aspiring to die for his sake, he was making love behind your back to another girl. For the last six months. Every one knew it, it seems, but you." She had spoken with unconcealed anger, and now turned to leave the room. But Louise was at the door before her, and spread herself across it. "That's a lie, Madeleine! Of your own making.
The occurrences of these two days hastened his departure from the coast for Aix-la-Chapelle, where the cringing of his courtiers consoled him, in part, for the want of respect or gallantry in your English tars. PARIS, August, 1805.
Miles?... You admit that it is the tally card you used while playing bridge this afternoon?" "No, no! It isn't mine!" Flora cried hysterically, cringing against her husband, who began to protest in a voice falsetto with rage. Dundee ignored his splutterings. "May I point out that it is identical with the other tally cards used at Mrs.
When Hildegunde emerged to the court her guardian asked no question. The horror in her face told all. "I am sorry, my Lord," said the cringing custodian, "but his Highness is drunk." "Does this does this happen often?" "Alas! yes, my Lord." "Poor lad, poor lad! The sins of the fathers shall be visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. Hildegunde, forgive me.
He sued for peace, writing a dishonorable and cringing letter, in which he protested that he was not to blame for the war, but that the whole guilt rested upon the French court, which had inveigled him to present his claim and commence hostilities. Maria Theresa made no other reply to this humiliating epistle than to publish it, and give it a wide circulation throughout Europe.
Heedless of warning he snatched at the picture, and as he did so it slipped from his fingers and the frame shattered on the floor. Doctor Queerington, at the doorway, took in the situation at a glance. He looked quickly from Myrtella's horrified face to the cringing figure of the strange child, then he smiled reassuringly.
They were gifted men with great power of intellect, who spoke without fear and without favor and whose every word expressed a thought. They were real men and they made the world a real place, a place without affectation, without pretence, without show, without need of applause, and without undue cringing to mere conventional forms.
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