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Updated: June 28, 2025
But it's pretty hard on Brian." It was the thing, as Garry knew, that taxed Brian's patience to the utmost, plunged him into grotesque dilemmas and kept him keyed to an abnormal alertness of memory. Always his sense of loyalty revolted at the notion of denying any tale that Kenny told. Now Kenny's hurt stare left Brian unrepentant. He lost his temper utterly.
His youth, his vanity, and a restless daring and thirst of adventure had from time to time involved him in dangers and dilemmas, out of which, of late, he had always extricated himself with the ingenious felicity of a clever head and cool heart.
"As for dissimulation, all women have plenty of it on hand on such occasions, and the simplest of them are wonderful, and extricate themselves from the greatest dilemmas in an extraordinary way."
"You never take anything seriously," his companion went on. Bernard tried to answer as seriously as possible. "Your dilemma seems to me of all dilemmas the strangest." "That may be; but different people take things differently. Don't you see," Gordon went on with a sudden outbreak of passion "don't you see that I am horribly divided in mind?
After the question of the carriage windows whether they should be up or down, either or both, and how much had been settled, and, as usual in such dilemmas, by Miss Blake, the drive up town was comparatively a silent one.
But there was a danger in dwelling too much upon the future, because the anxious mind, fertile in imagination, was so apt to weave for itself pictures of discouragement and failure, sad dilemmas, dreary dishonours, calamities, shadows, woes.
She was however able to contradict the tale of the young countess. "There is no fear of his marrying her, my dears." Meanwhile there was a fear that he would lose his chance of marrying the beautiful Miss Durham. The dilemmas of little princes are often grave.
Mr Mill argues that, if men are not inclined to plunder each other, government is unnecessary; and that, if they are so inclined, the powers of government, when entrusted to a small number of them, will necessarily be abused. Surely it is not by propounding dilemmas of this sort that we are likely to arrive at sound conclusions in any moral science. The whole question is a question of degree.
Scythrop foresaw that a great leader of human regeneration would be involved in fearful dilemmas, and determined, for the benefit of mankind in general, to adopt all possible precautions for the preservation of himself. The servants, even the women, had been tutored into silence.
She turned away from them more actively than from the rest, but it was because they bristled, naturally enough, with dilemmas and distresses which she made a literal effort to forget. As a matter of fact there were not very many days, and they were largely filled with millinery.
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