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You can gain nothing by finding the person who committed the the deed. Let's drop it. Do me that favor, won't you? Let's consider the whole thing at an end!" David Carroll was puzzled. But he was honest "I'm afraid I cannot, Miss Gresham. I must, at least, try to solve it." She paused before him: figure tensed "Then let me say, Mr. Carroll that I hope you fail!"
The larger man, Michael, was in favor of offering the children for a ransom. The others would not consider it at all. "Remember," said Martha, the woman, "there is much danger in collecting such fees. Rather will I prepare these little ladies for the trade of beggars. So beautiful are they that I can go through every capital in Europe, if so Europe still stands."
Gentlemen and ladies who never before cared much for "drinking" have now given up almost all other amusements in favor of this fascinating sport; young men and debutantes have become, in the last few years, fully as expert in the game as their parents.
All the men of the Lagunes were assembled in the square at the appointed hour, in decent guise, flattered with the notice that their craft received, and more than half disposed to forget their former anger in the present favor.
Jim was a good shot, but then his practice was very limited. Yes, the chances were all in his favor. "Get busy then," he said presently, with apparent reluctance. He rose and moved toward the guns. "Whose choice?" he demanded. Nor did he observe the other's smile as he received his reply. "It's yours."
George's descent from Dunkirk was projected, passing his time in England in his great estate in Staffordshire. When the Whigs went out of office in 1710, the Queen began to show his Grace the very greatest marks of her favor.
All the guests at that time present were standing in the courtyard talking, many a one lamenting or boasting of the spite or favor of Saint Hubert that day, when the hounds, who were smelling about the game, suddenly uplifted their voices, and the gate-keeper's horn blew a merry blast, as though to announce some right welcome guest.
My age is not the same, nor is my genius. Veianius, his arms consecrated on a pillar of Hercules' temple, lives snugly retired in the country, that he may not from the extremity of the sandy amphitheater so often supplicate the people's favor.
They who think so well of the French Constitution certainly will not be the persons to carry on a war to prevent their obtaining a great benefit, or at worst a fair exchange. They will not go to battle in favor of a cause in which their defeat might be more advantageous to the public than their victory.
The more she thought of these people and their extraordinary talk, the more offensive they seemed to her; and yet she confessed that if one must choose between the two extreme aristocracies it might be best, on the whole, looking at things from a strictly business point of view, to herd with the Parvenus; she was in Washington solely to compass a certain matter and to do it at any cost, and these people might be useful to her, while it was plain that her purposes and her schemes for pushing them would not find favor in the eyes of the Antiques.
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