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Lectoure is no more than a league from here, and we can give orders there to have these two fetched and buried. I had nothing to gain by demurring, and so, after another word or two, it was arranged. We picked up what we had dropped, M. de Cocheforet helped his sister to mount, and within five minutes we were gone.
The lords demurring to this demand, the lower house resolved to address the king, That copies of both treaties of partition, together with all the powers and instructions for negotiating those treaties, should be laid before them.
Hilda Lightener had found Ruth strangely quiet, with a manner which was not indifference to her imminent marriage, but which seemed more like numbness. "You act as if you were going to be hanged instead of married," Hilda told her, and found no smile answering her own. Ruth was docile. She offered no objection to any suggestion offered by Hilda, accepted every plan without demurring.
So they gathered, the young and the old, the learned doctor and the practical mechanic, for the defense of Freedom a magnet that drew both Pomeroy and Warren to that since-famous redoubt on the summit of Breed's Hill. They offered their services to Colonel Prescott, and he gladly accepted them, demurring as to Warren, and tendering him the command, which was his by right of rank.
Le Bas, the magistrate, strongly backed by Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, to turn aside in order to burn a mutinous village. Greatly demurring at any delay in reaching his main objective, the demand was so urgent that Daly felt bound to comply with it. His compliance cost him small loss, but the delay cost the British cause the help of the Guides at the battle of Budlika-Serai.
Pecquius replied that he thought his master might agree to the two first propositions while demurring to the third, as it would probably not seem honourable to him to separate man and wife, and as it was doubtful whether the Princess would return of her own accord.
'And then, said Mrs. Woodward to herself, 'his heart is good, and I will speak openly to him. And so Charley was again invited to the cottage. After some demurring between him and Norman, he accepted the invitation. Mrs. Val's dance had taken place in June, and it was now late in October. Four months had intervened, and during that period Charley had seen none of the Woodwards.
The musician was fingering the instrument with the greatest industry and energy, and apparently at his own entire satisfaction. Well, after much demurring, in they peeped; and most assuredly, through the dim dusk of the morning, a gray figure was seen exerting itself most strenuously.
My Daddy wouldn't do nothin' bad for anythin' in the world. He's the best old Daddy livin'." "Of course he is," vouched the warden, placatingly, "but what I want to know is would you mind, or would it hurt your feelings The fact is, I came to search this house." Tess had expected this, and without demurring, flashed forth,
As I came home, towards evening, I saw them all entering Mr. Dewey's residence. It was plain that there was trouble in the camp. On the next day, Mr. Dewey left town. I noticed him going into a car at the depot. When the time came for our meeting, a postponement was asked for. I felt like demurring, but Mr. Wallingford readily consented.
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