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The genius of the Catholic Church was on such occasions sure to predominate over the haughtiest of the laity. "I perceive," said De Lacy, collecting his thoughts, and ashamed to find he had difficulty in doing so, "I perceive that an old friendship is here dissolved.
Late in the afternoon, when she next appears upon the staircase, she is in her haughtiest and coldest state. As indifferent as if all passion, feeling, and interest had been worn out in the earlier ages of the world and had perished from its surface with its other departed monsters. Mercury has announced Mr. Rouncewell, which is the cause of her appearance. Mr.
He ostensibly presented a humble demeanor, but in his innermost soul he was the haughtiest human being that ever concealed beneath the cloak of humility an inflexible, tough, and durable heart.
Not one of the loftiest, haughtiest ladies at the court has ever been able to withstand them they have thawed the iciest, most immaculate of them all; and besides, it surely cannot fail to flatter the pride of this disdainful, high-spirited little actress to have a real duke actually and openly kneeling at her feet.
There are men, I can tell you, who for all that they are poor are more capable of self-sacrifice than the haughtiest nabobs who make such a fuss over us till we are in trouble and then snatch up their hats and fly from the house. You also belong to that class, my lord!" "I don't understand you."
At last the clouds have rolled from the bright star of your fate: wealth, and pomp, and all that awaits the haughtiest of England's matrons shall be yours." And at these thoughts Fortune seemed to me a gift a thousand times more precious than much as my luxuries prized it it had ever seemed to me before. I drew near and laid my hand upon Isora's shoulder, and kissed her cheek.
Seraphitus said the words with that fervor of tone and gesture seen and known only by those who have ascended the highest mountains of the globe, a fervor so involuntarily acquired that the haughtiest of men is forced to regard his guide as a brother, forgetting his own superior station till he descends to the valleys and the abodes of his kind.
The sons of innkeepers, notaries; lawyers, and peasants become marshals of the empire. The Emperor, first making a West India Creole his wife and Empress, puts her away, and marries a daughter of the haughtiest and oldest royal house in Europe, the niece of a queen whom the people of France had beheaded a few years before. Their son is born a king King of Rome.
But in his presence and mien there was something, which, in the haughtiest conclave of Christian chivalry, would have seemed to tower and command.
It is no respecter of persons. It neither permits the haughtiest to be free from its monitions, nor leaves the humblest without the consolation of a knowledge of another life.
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