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Every right-minded person detests snakes, don't they? And yet, how exquisitely flexible and beautiful he is! Oh, pray don't put him back in his box for me. He's basking in the sun here. I should be sorry to disturb him." Cyril Waring looked at her in considerable surprise.
The style in which it was written had already settled one point in his mind. "See," replied Noel. He handed the letter to the old fellow, who read, "Venice, December, 1828." "You perceive," resumed the advocate, "all the importance of this first letter. It is like a brief statement of the facts. My father, married in spite of himself, adores his mistress, and detests his wife.
Ah, my dear baronne, he is a bad fellow; he detests me, and I have no love for him. A king does wisely, certainly, to submit his works to the judgment of a Freron! It would be outrageous scandal if he came here. Great and small would crowd around him, and there would not be twenty persons in my train." "Ah! sire, do you think so?" "I am sure of it.
After some moments he heard her explaining in a relieved tone: "Oh, such a fright as I had." "What was it? For Heaven's " "The cake!" "You frightened me. I thought " "It's four stories high and pasted together with caramel." "You should never leave a 'phone in that way without " "Bernie detests caramel; but I'm expecting a 'certain party' to call on me to-night.
I've an old cad of a parson in my new play and I am trying to decide if it will do to have him advocate a grand scheme for reforming the world by reversing definitions and calling those things men choose to do virtues, and dubbing whatever man detests, vices." "That is rather more clever than orthodox," Helen laughed. "How is your play getting on, Mr. Rangely?" "Oh, fairish, thank you.
Whatever has been the occasion or the means of transgression, becomes an object of dislike; and in the true spirit of penitence, she not only deserts what is obviously criminal, but detests and relinquishes whatever may tend to renew the remembrance of indulgence, or rekindle the expiring flame of desire.
He seemed to be very angry, and told me, in a manner that was hardly compatible with respect, that I had been very wrong, and that he had his reasons for not desiring to come in contact with those people." The marquis felt so secure, that he only listened with partial attention, looking all the time aside at his precious faiences. "Well," he said at last, "Jacques detests the Claudieuses.
"And when a woman has taught you the colour of her eyes may you see that in them which will make black or blue or grey the one colour in the world for you. As to Ursula de Vesc, she detests me much as I detest that offscouring from the dregs of brazen Paris who will meet you at the Chien Noir.
The weak point of our volunteer service invariably lies here, that the soldier, in nine cases out of ten, utterly detests being commanded, while the officer, in his turn, equally shrinks from commanding. War, to both, is an episode in life, not a profession, and therefore military subordination, which needs for its efficiency to be fixed and absolute, is, by common consent, reduced to a minimum.
As the group passed Gregory, Miss Scrotton caught sight of him. "We are in plenty of time, I see," she said. "Dear me! it has been a morning! Mercedes is always late. Could you, I wonder, induce these people to move away. She so detests being stared at." Eleanor, as usual, roused a mischievous spirit in Gregory. "I'm afraid I'm helpless," he replied.
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