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He had learned well that effrontery is often the best weapon of an adventurer. He turned from me disdainfully, petulantly, and addressed the Vicomtesse once more. "I wish to be alone with Antoinette," he said. "No doubt," said the Vicomtesse. "I demand it," said Auguste. "The demand is not granted," said the Vicomtesse; "that is why we have come.
As to the operation itself, pain is represented as voluntary martyrdom, and persecution as the struggle of the spirit of darkness with that of light. They got persons to join the order by monetary offers. Another method was to take into service young boys, who soon became lost to society, and lied with effrontery and obstinacy.
The fugitive burgomaster, De Fries, had the effrontery, with the advice of Alva, to address a letter to the citizens, urging them to surrender at discretion. The messenger was hanged a cruel but practical answer, which put an end to all further traitorous communications. This was in the first week of December.
I had flattered myself that I had so effectually repulsed his advances on all former occasions, that I had nothing more to apprehend from his unfortunate predilection; but it seems I was mistaken: so great was his confidence, either in his wealth or his remaining powers of attraction, and so firm his conviction of feminine weakness, that he thought himself warranted to return to the siege, which he did with renovated ardour, enkindled by the quantity of wine he had drunk—a circumstance that rendered him infinitely the more disgusting; but greatly as I abhorred him at that moment, I did not like to treat him with rudeness, as I was now his guest, and had just been enjoying his hospitality; and I was no hand at a polite but determined rejection, nor would it have greatly availed me if I had, for he was too coarse-minded to take any repulse that was not as plain and positive as his own effrontery.
"Ali Pasha replied to his inquiry with unblushing effrontery: "'The slave is from Circassia, and was sold to me by her parents. "I know not how I obtained the courage to do so, but instantly I cried out: "'All that vile wretch has said is false! My name is Haydée, and I am the wife of the Count of Monte-Cristo!
"By Heaven!" went on the younger man, in accents of suppressed fury, "if I yielded to the temptation which besets me when I see you standing there facing me, with your easy and self-satisfied demeanor, when I know that you mean dishonor where I meant honor, when you have had the effrontery to confess to me that you only intend to make the Princess Ziska your mistress when I would have made her my wife, God!
There be cold hearts to which these touching recollections do not pertain, and they heed them not; and some there are, who, with a callousness which shocks sensibility, have the ignorant effrontery to ask, "Of what use are such recollections?"
Indignant at the effrontery of the woman who was trying to keep me out of my father's room, I said: "Let me pass, please." "S'sh! He has a temperature, and I don't choose that anybody shall disturb him to-day." "Let me pass," I repeated, and I must have pitched my voice so high that my father heard it.
She was too old at the business for that, too hardened, yet with all her effrontery, she had at least one redeeming virtue. In her days of prosperity she was never too proud to greet or help old friends. She had met Jim Weston years ago. He was press agent for the first company she joined, and she had not forgotten trifling little services he had rendered her at that precarious time.
Scarcely has the accommodation man passed out of sight when a sallow-faced stripling makes his appearance, and with that characteristic effrontery for borrowing and never returning, of the property-man of a country theatre, "desires" to know if Mr. McArthur will lend him a skull.
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