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Abroad, Spain and Portugal are ready to furnish troops. Everywhere there are snares or battles, poniards or cannon." The Cardinal yawned three times, without discontinuing his amusement, and then said: "A cat is a very fine animal. It is a drawing-room tiger. What suppleness, what extraordinary finesse!
"Madam," said I, still reasonable, "would it not be better to avoid a possible scandal by discontinuing these movements, as the tongues of men are not always fair, and it might be said by some " Whereupon we revolved twice more around the table. When the old pelican stopped, she had only enough breath left to impartially abuse all the sight-seers.
But, let the world and Britain know, that we are neither to be bought nor sold; that our mind is great and fixed; our prospect clear; and that we will support our character as firmly as our independence. But I will go still further; General Conway, who made the motion, in the British Parliament, for discontinuing offensive war in America, is a gentleman of an amiable character.
Vincent's, did not furnish sufficient grounds for comparing the state of population in the said islands, at different periods, with the number of slaves, which had been from time to time imported there, and exported therefrom; but that from the evidence which had been received, respecting the present state of these islands, as well as that of Jamaica and Barbados, and from a consideration of the means of obviating the causes, which had hitherto operated to impede the natural increase of the slaves, and of lessening the demand for manual labour, without diminishing the profit of the planters, no considerable or permanent inconvenience would result from discontinuing the further importation of African slaves.
The appearance of free-will in adopting or discontinuing a course of action is a deception, but it is a complete deception—so complete as not to affect in the slightest my interest in what is going to happen, nor my unconscious posing as a factor in that result.
Six post-captains out of thirty were killed, against two British out of thirty-six. Rodney did not make adequate use of the great opportunity, which accident rather than design had given him at noon of April 12th. He did allow a certain liberty of manoeuvre, by discontinuing the order for the line of battle; but the signal for close action, hoisted at 1 P.M., was hauled down a half-hour later.
"I can go with you, in that direction, on my way to the library," he added. "Well, that will be very nice," said Mrs. Elmore, discontinuing her look, and leaving her husband with an uneasy sense of wantonly assumed responsibility. "She can step into the Frari a moment, and see those tombs," he said. "I think it will amuse her." Lily broke into a laugh.
The course of the tale is one piece of stiff mechanism, in which there is no room for a doubt. These, it may be said, are reflections which I, being an old novelist, might make useful to myself for discontinuing my work, but can hardly be needed by those tyros of whom I have spoken. That they are applicable to myself I readily admit, but I also find that they apply to many beginners.
He received me very well just as a rich man receives a poor devil; and turning to me, took my letter. "Oh, from my brother! it is a long time since I heard from him: is he well? Yonder," he went on, turning to the company, and pointing to a distant hill "yonder is the site of the new building." He broke the seal without discontinuing the conversation, which turned upon riches.
Stirn, indeed, recommended much more stringent proceedings than all these indications of a change of policy, which, he averred, would soon bring the parish to its senses, such as discontinuing many little jobs of unprofitable work that employed the surplus labour of the village.
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