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"Let us drown this inquisition in a bumper of claret," interposed Elmsley, coming to the assistance of his friend, whose motive for thus parrying inquiry into his conduct, he thought he could divine. "I say, my dear fellow, you may wish yourself a head-ache fatigue indolence, or even a little entetement every morning of your life, if it is to be cured in this manner.
Men's minds and characters are narrowed rather than corrupted. In connexion with which the Journal has: January 16th. Dined at Lord Granville's, with Lavalette, the new French ambassador. The Emperor had just formed a more liberal ministry, with Daru and Ollivier, which soon broke down owing to Buffet's entetement. 26th. Dinner at Clarendon's, to meet the Queen of Holland. From M. Guizot
Why not rather ascribe my tardiness at parade to some less flattering cause a head-ache fatigue from night-watching indolence, or even a little entetement, arising from the denial of a very imprudent request I made to Captain Headley last evening, to allow me the command of a detachment for a particular purpose. Pardon me, I have made quite a speech, but indeed you compel me."
She laughed and shook her head; she had headshakes whose impulse seemed to come from as far away as the breeze that stirs a flower. The companion-piece to the portrait of my future husband was the portrait of his future wife. She had taken her stand she could depart from it as little as she could explain it. It was a prejudice, an entêtement, a vow she would live and die unphotographed.
But why he risked giving offence to Napoleon at all by the disregard of orders, there is, it would seem, nothing in Decaen's papers to show. M. Prentout, who has studied them carefully, is driven back on the suggestion that the prolongation of the captivity was due to "entetement" stubbornness. The obstinacy of Decaen is not a sufficient reason.
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