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The lips of the wearer had been artificially reddened, her eyebrows and eyelids had been skilfully pencilled, her cheeks rouged. A more extraordinary specimen of the nursing sisterhood it would have been impossible to find. Nevertheless the result was, beyond gainsaying, both amusing and picturesque. The lad beside Nelly watched Miss Farrell with a broad grin.
In other words, that he was, like other historic personages whom we have already encountered, a victim of dissociation. There is no gainsaying the fact that he was of a distinctly nervous temperament; and it is equally certain that he chose a vocation, and placed himself in an environment, which would tend to make a dissociated state habitual with him.
And beyond all gainsaying must have been the deep satisfaction with which the uncle, who was like a father, heard the repeated assurance of how successful had been his work what a blessing had rested upon it. Here is a note of exultation on the political changes from the opposite side of the House.
And the king knew, after all, and was destined very soon to acquire proof of it which there was no gainsaying, that the beautiful Elizabeth had exactly as much affection for him as he had for her, and was as capable of sacrificing his interests for her own, or of taking advantage of his direct necessities as cynically and as remorselessly, as the King of Spain, or the Duke of Mayenne, or the Pope had ever done.
Wherefore I tell you that he will assuredly listen to reason, and I commend my Lord the rather that he make him knight, for much blame would he have of gainsaying him." "Lady," saith Messire Gawain, "So you are content, I am happy."
Under the last incumbent, Saint Peter's had been running down a little. It was not in all respects an easy parish; and Brenton, young, earnest and as magnetic as he was self-distrustful, was the very man to build it up. Nevertheless, the Bishop saw to it that Scott Brenton should never attend a service at Saint Peter's, until his acceptance of the parish was settled past all gainsaying.
We may have found this condemned army bacon further out on the plains than the section I am locating it in, but we found it there is no gainsaying that. Then he poured for us a beverage which he called "Slum gullion," and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it.
'Well, really, said John, 'it is not for the present company to criticize outlandish names. 'No, said Arthur, 'it was a happy instinct that made us give my boy a good rational working-day name, fit to go to school in, and no choice either to give him the opportunity of gainsaying it, like Emma's friend, and some others Sir Percival that is to be! A hero of the Minerva press!
The natural man loves all sorts of indulgences, and these among others." As there was no gainsaying this commonplace commentary on the species, it was permitted to pass unanswered. "I hope my kinsman has not been a burthen to any on Oyster Pond?" said the nephew, inquiringly. "I cannot say that he has," returned the deacon.
'I am pleased to hear you say so, the blushing Sarrasin murmured; 'I will frankly confess that I am delighted. But I own that I am greatly surprised. 'Our folks when they take up a subject study it right through, the Professor affirmed. 'Sir, we should not have sought you if we had not known of you. We knew of you, and we have sought you. There was no gainsaying this.
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