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He lay still a moment looking at her with a great longing in his eyes. Helen was very beautiful, more beautiful even than usual, it seemed to him. He did not guess that she had an offering to make, and for the sake of the man at whose feet she would lay it, would not even so far as trifles went, depreciate the gift, hence her careful attire. Helen's eyes fell beneath his gaze.
Not," I continued hastily, "that I would depreciate aunts by the way, he has but one, I believe?" Lisbeth nodded coldly. "Of course," I nodded; "and very lucky in that one extremely fortunate. Now, years ago, when I was a boy, I had three, and all of them blanks, so to speak.
This being the case, some suspicion has arisen in our minds that you, for your own interests, are too partial to the quarries of Carrara, and want to depreciate those of Pietra Santa. This of a truth, would be wrong in you, considering the trust we have always reposed in your honesty.
"To praise where a rival was worthy of praise; to be silent where it would be easy to depreciate; to win her from him, not because of my own greater worth, but in spite of the worst she could know of me. That would, in my opinion, be a conquest worthy of a man."
It says you are an enchantress striking the rockiest heart, and a well of pure emotion springs up. It says you have the beauty of Mrs. Siddons and the genius of Rachel." "Dear me!" "Ah, you don't half believe in yourself, Gerty," said the younger sister, with a critical air. "It is the weak point about you. You depreciate yourself, and you make light of other people's belief in you.
A curious trait of human nature compels admiration for whatever is harmful, and forces us, in spite of our better judgment, to depreciate the useful and beneficent.
Thus it commenced: "When a disappointed man, intolerant of fortune," &c., &c., and it wound up many stinging observations with this grateful climax following: "We trust we have now said enough to prove that if a man will be bold enough to 'depreciate censure, will attack what he is pleased to consider abuses, however countenanced by high authority and will obtrude his literary eloquence into our solemn courts of law, he deserves what does he not deserve? to be addressed henceforth by a name suggestive at once of ignorance, presumption, and conceit, as Mr.
You depreciate in the interests of business." Raymond did not at first appear to notice the sarcasm. "I only stated," he said, gravely, "that which these gentlemen will find out for themselves before they are many hours older. Dr. West was the brain of the county, as Aladdin is its life-blood. It only remains to be seen how far the loss of that brain affects the county.
The interior of the house was of the type which, having from the first been massive and richly sombre, had mellowed into a darker sombreness and richness as it had stood unmoved amid London years and fogs. The grandeur of decoration and furnishing had been too solid to depreciate through decay, and its owner had been of no fickle mind led to waver in taste by whims of fashion.
"I believe in an international currency which will be a sort of legal tender among all the nations. Why should the currency of the country depreciate or rise with the fortunes of war or with its industrial or other complications? Misfortune should not be penalized fiscally."
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