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Devereux spoke of the terrible scene to Cecilia, and Lydiard to Miss Denham. The injured person communicated it to Lord Avonley, who told Colonel Halkett emphatically that his nephew Cecil deserved well of him in having kept command of his temper out of consideration for the family. There was a general murmur of the family over this incident.

In this fashion they lose their real understanding of affairs, become the toys of their local environment, and are marked as provincials or tenderfeet when they stray away from home. California is emphatically one of "earth's male lands," to accept Browning's classification. The first Saxon settlers were men, and in their rude civilization women had little part.

'As emphatically as I could. 'I will see the man who edits this to-morrow, cried Hubert hotly. 'But perhaps he is too great a blackguard to talk with. 'It purports to come, you see, from a London correspondent. But I suppose the source is nearer. 'You mean you think that man Mutimer has originated it? 'I scarcely think that. 'Yet it is more than likely. I will go to the Manor at once.

"Cloaks and suits," Morris answered. "Suits, hey?" the clerk commented. "Let me see buyer of suits. Was that the lady that was expecting somebody with an automobile?" Morris nodded emphatically. "Well, that party called for her and they left here about ten minutes ago," the clerk replied. "What!" Morris gasped. "Maybe it was five minutes ago," the clerk continued.

Rousselet dropped his pose of a Roman senator; passing his hand behind his ears, a familiar gesture with people when in embarrassing positions, he continued less emphatically: "I stopped on my way back at La Fauconnerie, at the 'Femme-sans-Tete Inn'." "And what were you doing in a tavern?" interrupted Mademoiselle de Corandeuil severely.

The man who wins me will have to do the seeking most emphatically; and I warn you beforehand, sister mine, that you must never let the idea of matchmaking enter your head. Since I have been away I have developed more will of my own than muscle. There is no necessity for me ever to marry, and if I do it will be because I wish to, not because any one else wants me to.

The king, having thus made expiation for his sins, through the reception of this chastisement by proxy, and having thus emphatically acknowledged the authority of the sacred mother, received the absolution of the vicar of Christ, and was declared to be worthy of the loyalty of the faithful. We have called this a farce. And yet can it be justly called so?

An Act was passed to secure the regency to Philip if there should be a child and Mary herself died, it being supposed at the time that the Queen was enceinte. But the suggestion that the succession should be secured to Philip was emphatically rejected, and the regency was by the Lords made conditional on his residence in England.

It is undeniable that unprovoked aggression is an extremely hateful thing, and many of the circumstances attendant upon the Spanish conquest in America were not only heinous in their atrocity, but were emphatically condemned, as we shall presently see, by the best moral standards of the sixteenth century.

"My dear lady," Selingman declared emphatically, "if you were to break through our time-honoured custom and deny me the joy of your company on my first evening in London, I think that I should send another to look after my business in this country, and retire myself to the seclusion of my little country home near Potsdam. The inducements of managing one's own affairs in this country, Mr.