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Selection by the state, accountability to the state, would make too serious a flaw in the practical operation of this system to be permitted. The argument of the Church against the practice of lay investiture was entirely sound. On the other hand, the argument of the feudal state was not less sound.
That would seem to be a flaw in the reasoning. Once again: Whoever took it must have been in urgent and immediate need of money." "And how are we to find out who was in urgent and immediate need of money?" "Exactly! How indeed?" There was a pause. "I should think your Mr. Quayle must have been a great comfort to his clients, wasn't he?" said Joan.
You go to your excellent aunt and announce that you are engaged to be married to Jill Mariner. There is a momentary pause. 'Not the Jill Mariner? falters Mrs Peagrim. 'Yes, the famous Miss Mariner! you reply. Well, I ask you, my boy, can you see her making an objection? Such a thing would be absurd. No, I can see no flaw in the project whatsoever."
But each generation, while freely confessing the sins of its fathers, has protested its own innocence and boasted of its own achievements, and then, with a pharisaic sense of rectitude, has complacently pointed to some inscrutable flaw in the Irish character as the key to the Irish problem.
The same men were engaged in this last attempt that had failed in all the previous ones. It is one of the most memorable instances of perseverance on record. But on August 6th a flaw occurred, and the cable was being drawn up for repairs. The sound of the wheel suddenly stopped; the cable broke and sunk into the depths. The Great Eastern returned unsuccessful to her port.
I merely mention this, sir, in order to " I put my finger on the flaw. I had spotted it all along. "But Gussie isn't a parrot." "No, sir, but " "It is high time, in my opinion, that this question of what young Gussie really is was threshed out and cleared up. He seems to think he is a male newt, and you now appear to suggest that he is a parrot.
It said that you were largely made up of two emotions your contempt for woman and your love of adventure; that it would be impossible for you not to see a flaw in one, and that for the other physical excitement you would go to the ends of the earth. Perhaps it is this your desire for adventure that makes you want to go with me to Tête Jaune?"
There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us.
Then it would not be merely that, in some one particular point, our decision had been doubted, but that one point would involve our authority in all; because it would prove, that we had set up beforehand a false claim: and he who does so is either foolish, or a deceiver; there is apparent a flaw either in his understanding, or in his principles, which undoubtedly does repel respect.
"If you still loved me, would you, knowing this story, refuse to marry me?" Thresk looked back across the years of her unhappy life and saw her as the sport of a malicious destiny. "No," he said, "I should not." "Then why shouldn't Dick marry me?" "Because he doesn't know this story." Stella nodded her head. "Yes. There's the flaw in my appeal to you, I know. You are quite right.
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