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The matter upon which I have to speak with our sister here concerns you as well as myself." Then, when the wife of the Councillor of State was seated, Rasputin carefully approached the subject of Miliukoff. "It has been whispered to me that he is my bitter enemy, and that he is about to speak against me in the Duma," he said. "I believe your husband and he are friendly.
Many young men of the upper class marry girls of the same class belonging to neighbouring villages of their own people, aid in some cases this choice falls on a girl of a village of some other tribe. A marriage of the latter kind is often encouraged by the chiefs and elder people, in order to strengthen or to restore friendly relations between the villages.
It was not so much that he had reason to destroy De la Foret, as that he saw that the Queen was disposed to deal friendly by him and protect him. He did not see the danger of rousing in the Queen the same unreasoning tenaciousness of will upon just such lesser things as might well be left to her advisers.
The Queen bee did not seem very friendly, a fact that augured ill for the attitude of the workers and the drones. Arrived at the glass swing doors before mentioned, he looked in. The place was crowded. It looked to him as though for the space of a mile and a half or so, lay tables, tables, tables, all occupied by twos and threes and fours of men.
My literary man was so friendly as to drop into a charming piece of poetry on that occasion, in which he complimented Mrs Boffin on coming into possession of how did it go, my dear? Mrs Boffin replied: "The gay, the gay and festive scene, The halls, the halls of dazzling light." 'That's it!
Such a city, so set, promises at the very least the dual distinction of looking up as well as looking down; it is the nearer heaven, and just so much the farther removed from earth. Coutances, for a city with its head in the air, was surprisingly friendly. It went out of its way to make us at home.
Not once had he mentioned to Miss Derwent that he was on friendly terms with these most respectable people. What a foolish omission! It would at once have given him a better standing in her sight, have smoothed their social relations. Instantly, his plan of exile was forgotten.
The officers also met at a social and friendly dinner, and the day passed with much of the same kind of festivity by which it is usually distinguished at home; and, to the credit of the men be it spoken, without any of that disorder by which it is too often observed by seamen.
Serbia has been overrun, but never were the convergent forces of adjacent interests so clearly in favour of her recuperation. The possibility of Italy and that strange Latin outlier, Roumania, joining hands through an allied and friendly Serbia must be very present in Italian thought.
He had, in these last three years, become unconsciously inimical to his own class and their imitators, and more than ever friendly to the poor visiting the labourers, small farmers, and small tradesmen, doing them little turns when he could, giving their children sixpences, and so forth.
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