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One man among the sons of men has been permitted to fulfil a courtly formula with awful and disastrous fidelity.
Those that arrived were in as real a sense captured, for they were stolen by the Bigot gang, and did not fulfil the purpose of holding the Indian allies. 'If, said Montcalm, in one of his despairing letters to the minister, 'if all the presents that the king sends out to the Indians were really given to them, we should have every tribe in America on our own side.
"It seems to me," said he, in a letter of this epoch, "that I shall never be able to fulfil the obligation of slave which I owe to your majesty, to whom I am bound by so firm a chain; at any rate, I shall never fail to struggle for that end with sincerity."
Nothing could shake her determination, neither the tears shed by Frantz, who was exasperated by her refusal to fulfil her promise, enveloped as it was in vague reasons which she would not even explain to him, nor the entreaties of Risler, in whose ear Madame Chebe had mysteriously mumbled her daughter's reasons, and who in spite of everything could not but admire such a sacrifice.
After Hamlet has written down the important fact that 'one may smile, and smile, and be a villain at least, I am sure it may be so in Denmark, he exclaims: 'Now to my word! That 'word' undoubtedly consists of the admonition addressed to him by the Ghost, that Hamlet, after having heard his duty, also should fulfil it that is: 'So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
Well, the desire of thy soul is granted thee, yea, God himself hath engaged himself even to fulfil this thy desire "He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him, he also will hear their cry, and will save them." O this desire when it cometh, what a tree of life will it be to thee! Thou desirest to be rid of thy present trouble; the Lord shall rid thee out of trouble.
She looked more sweet and little-girlish than ever, and he felt a strong desire to take her in his arms and tell her so, only he feared, from something he saw in those wide, sweet eyes, that she might take alarm and run away too soon, so he only smiled and said that his business with her husband could wait until another time, and meantime he had called to fulfil his promise to play for her.
There was some joiners' work to do in the first classe, some bench or desk to repair; holidays were often turned to account for the performance of these operations, which could not be executed when the rooms were filled with pupils. As I sat solitary, purposing to adjourn to the garden and leave the coast clear, but too listless to fulfil my own intent, I heard the workmen coming.
She had been betrayed by love itself; and what cared she now for her future, her embittered, bloomless, scentless life, when he had deceived her he, the only one whom she had loved? The next morning Hortense stepped, self-possessed and smiling, into Josephine's private cabinet, and declared that she was ready to fulfil her mother's wishes and marry Louis Bonaparte.
When she had left the room, having in mind the capacities of the average servant, and the outcry she is apt to make about her particular 'work, I said that it seemed strange that one young woman could fulfil all these multifarious duties satisfactorily.
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