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You were too proud to accept a favor from your uncle. You will not be too proud, I hope, to accept one from me?" "No, doctor; I am not too proud for that. You are my friend, and my uncle cares nothing for me."
Clothilda, made it quite clear that public opinion was decidedly in favor of Miss Brandon. It would have been surprising if it should have been otherwise. She triumphed; and the world is always on the side of the victor. That Duke of Champdoce, an original, was the only one there who was disposed to remember the past; the others had forgotten it.
The Rose growing in its mystic garden is typical of the lady Beauty. Gathering the Rose represents the lover's attempt to win his lady's favor; and the different feelings aroused Love, Hate, Envy, Jealousy, Idleness, Sweet Looks are the allegorical persons of the poet's drama.
Her power is very limited, and the few gifts she has to bestow, are more likely to ensnare than to benefit those whom she means to serve. She gave you, indeed, good advice, but she could not endow you with the good sense that would enable you to follow it. Even you, my quiet Claribel, have not, I fancy, profited much by her favor. Say, were you very happy in the possession of your lily?"
"No, Mr. Mershone," shaking his head gravely, "I can't see my way to favor you. It's an easy job now, and I'm afraid to take chances with a harder one." Something in the tone nettled Mershone. "But the pay," he suggested. "Oh, the pay. If I'm a detective fifty years, I'll make an easy two thousand a year. That's a round hundred thousand.
When Englishwomen hear that she is very active in favor of the Pope, and couple this news with the fact that the Emperor's soul is uneasy, they sniff if we may be forgiven the expression the battle from afar. Their education in respect of theology and religious opinion is very different from that of men.
They seemed to show that she, unworthy and humble, was singled out in a special manner to be the mark of royal favor. And why? Was it on her own account, or for some other reason? She chose to consider that it was on her own account.
A tear stood in the eye of Lady Helen. "Cannot you, dear Lady Mar," continued she, forcing a smile, "pardon the daughter of your early friend, my mother, who loved you as a sister? Cannot you forgive her Helen for revering justice even more than your favor?"
I can do it one can do anything; and, besides, it will not last forever." "Here is your shawl, neighbor. I shall not be so indiscreet as to bring my lips too close to this charming neck." "Oh, neighbor! take care, you prick me." "Come, the pin is crooked." "Well, take another there, on the pincushion. Oh, I forget! Will you do me a favor, neighbor?" "Command, neighbor."
In regard to the pretended miracles related in the Old Testament, they could have been performed but to indicate on the part of God an unjust and odious discrimination between nations and between individuals; purposely injuring the one in order to especially favor the other.
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