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As no sufficient disclaimer appeared, the London partisans of the Indian "forward policy" sought to induce Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury to take precautionary measures.
The latter had been most anxious to approach his really good hearted companion, with a view to soothe his wounded feelings, and to convey, in the fullest and most convincing terms, the utter disclaimer of his inconsiderate brother officers, to reflect seriously on his conduct in the recent retreat or, indeed, to intend their observations for any thing beyond a mere pleasantry.
With Lefever's disclaimer, Doubleday interposed a savage rejoinder: "A rope'll fit Abe's neck better than a warrant." Laramie eyed the old cattleman unmoved: "And you're here to get me to help you slip the noose, are you?" "We're here to clean out these cattle thieves," stormed Doubleday. "There are no cattle thieves here," retorted Laramie undisturbed.
"I am afraid you give me too much credit," said Robert, modestly. This modest disclaimer produced a still more favorable impression upon both Mr. and Mrs. Morgan. I do not propose to speak in detail of the dinner that followed.
Some middle course, however, it was thought, might be adopted, which, without going the full length of retracting, might tend at least to unsettle the impression left upon the public, and, in some degree, retrieve that loss of station, which a disclaimer, coming in such an authentic shape, had entailed. To ask Mr. Fox to discredit his own statement was impossible.
"I should think," he said, nervously, before she had time to begin her explanation, "that a fellow who had done that for you would occupy your mind to the exclusion of everybody else." Guessing that he hoped for a disclaimer on her part, she was sorry to be unable to make it. "Not to their exclusion but perhaps a little to their subordination." He pretended to laugh. "What a pretty distinction!"
I uttered no disclaimer then of the complacency he attributed to me; I merely asked where the English examination came in whether at the commencement or close of the day?
This artist was once a living protest against Goethe's assertion that only fools are modest, and the monument recently erected to his memory in Paris is provocation enough to bring him ferrying across the Styx to enter a disclaimer in the very teeth of his admirers.
Taken by surprise, I stammered and uttered some faint disclaimer; but seeing by his steady look and firm-set jaw that he meant to know, and detecting as I also thought in his general manner and subdued tones the promise of an unexpected forbearance, I added impulsively: "Let the wayward girl tell you herself; perhaps in the telling she will grow ashamed of her caprice."
Then with a little nod he walked on, carrying, as I believed, notwithstanding his disclaimer, the secret with him. In the afternoon Doctor Bryerly went away. For many days after our quarrel, Madame hardly spoke to me. As for lessons, I was not much troubled with them.
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