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"Well, Alma," said her mother, when the door had closed upon him. "Well, mother." Then, after a moment, she said, with a rush: "Did you think I was going to let him suppose we were piqued at his not coming? Did you suppose I was going to let him patronize us, or think that we were in the least dependent on his favor or friendship?" Her mother did not attempt to answer her.
*Reply to the German Professors* *By British Scholars.* We see with regret the names of many German professors and men of science, whom we regard with respect and, in some cases, with personal friendship, appended to a denunciation of Great Britain so utterly baseless that we can hardly believe that it expresses their spontaneous or considered opinion.
Do you think that a man who feels for you the most tender affection can abandon you when he has been fortunate enough to make your acquaintance, when he is aware of the sad position in which you are placed? If you think such a thing possible, you must have a very false idea of friendship, and should such a man grant your request, he would only prove that he is not your friend."
But to tell him the story I a person of his high nice notions of character what a distance it would put even between his friendship and her, but that thought was banished instantly, with one glance at Mr. Thorn's imputation of ungenerousness. To sacrifice herself to him would not have been generosity, to lower herself in the esteem of a different character, she felt, called for it.
"I furnished this hovel piece by piece, generally at night, because I did not want to excite the curiosity of the people in the court, nor did I wish this matter to reach the ears of John Minute. I felt that while I retained his friendship and his confidence there was at least a chance of his reconciliation with my mother, and that, before all things, she desired. It was not to be," he said sadly.
'We asked him what he'd ever done to show his friendship. 'Well? 'He didn't seem to know the answer to that. What strikes me most about men is their being so illogical.
Knowing as much about men as a mechanic of a main-road motor-repairing shop knows about engines, her examination was acute and thorough. Martin waited quietly, amused at her coolness, but impatient to come to cues. She was a good sort, he knew. Tootles had told him so, and he was certain that she had asked to see him out of friendship for the girl upstairs.
When I left him at Siena, he drew it off his finger and handing it to me said: 'Take this as a pledge of our friendship that will never die. And I kept my pledged faith with him even after his death, celebrating my friend's memory in my writings.
His Highness did most prettily entreat me with a fine gentleness of condescension befitting a Sunday or a New Year's Day to bring and present and communicate from hand to hand a gift, a most incomparable proper gift, the mirror and image of his most incomparable proper friendship." Wogan bowed, and requested the treasurer to enter and be seated the while he recovered his breath. "Nay, Mr.
The Bishop was said to have expressed the opinion, that although the friendship he bore the Prince would induce him to urge the marriage, yet his duty to his master made him think it questionable whether it were right to advance a personage already placed so high by birth, wealth, and popularity, still higher by so near an alliance with his Majesty's family.
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