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At the time, he had deprecated premature rushings into print; but afterwards it was a blessed thing to remember the joy he had given her that last Christmas the very last....
Either, on the one hand, from an impulse of personal modesty they deprecated it, or, on the other hand, they accepted it as a gratification to their personal vanity.
"I shall never forget," Douglas wrote, "the benignant expression of his face, the tearful look of his eye, the quiver in his voice, when he deprecated a resort to retaliatory measures. 'Once begun, said he, 'I do not know where such a measure would stop. He said he could not take men out and kill them in cold blood for what was done by others.
This new envoy was to inquire into the causes of the discontent, and to do his best to remove them: as if any man in England or in Holland doubted as to the causes, or as to the best means of removing them; or as if it were not absolutely certain that delay was the very worst specific that could be adopted delay which the Netherland statesmen, as well as the Queen's wisest counsellors, most deprecated, which Alexander and Philip most desired, and by indulging in which her Majesty was most directly playing into her adversary's hand.
Naughty, naughty!" From below rose a fervid and startled exclamation. "Naughtier, naughtier!" deprecated the visitor. "Are these the cold and measured terms of science?" "You haven't lived up to your bet," complained the censured one. "Indeed I have! I always play fair, and pay fair. Here I am, as per contract." "Nearly half an hour late." "Not at all. Four-thirty was the time."
"I can go to bed early," she said at last, "and get out by the acting-room window." "But suppose you were missed?" Alfred deprecated. "Then I should be found out," said Beth; "but you would not." "How about being recognised in the menagerie, though?" said Dicksie. "You see there'll be lots of people, and it's all lighted up."
In his earlier years, like Reardon, he had destroyed whole books books he had to sit down to when his imagination was tired and his fancy suffering from deadly fatigue. His corrections in the days of New Grub Street provoked not infrequent, though anxiously deprecated, remonstrance from his publisher's reader.
Posterity will for ever blame us if we reject this great occasion." Peter Pecquius, smoothest and sliest of diplomatists, did his best to make things comfortable, for there could be little doubt that his masters most sincerely deprecated war. On their heads would come the first blows, to their provinces would return the great desolation out of which they had hardly emerged.
In this case the lights should be kept lowered in order to show that no interact is intended; but the fashion of changing the scene on a pitch-dark stage, without dropping the curtain, is much to be deprecated.
He deprecated this course very respectfully; urged that he had it on his conscience to deliver her at her own door; but she sprang into the cab and closed the apron with a movement that was a sharp prohibition. She wanted to get away from him it would be too awkward, the long, pottering drive back. Her hansom started off while Mr. Wendover, smiling sadly, lifted his hat.
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