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In reply to these observations Washington assured him that, judging from his own feelings and from the public sentiment, there existed in America a reciprocal disposition to be on the best terms with France. That whatever former difficulties might have occurred he was persuaded the Secretary of Foreign Affairs had offered no intentional disrespect either to the minister or to his nation.
'Thank God that this happened to me, whose opinions are so well known, cried the high-spirited girl. 'Had a Whig lady been wounded, it might have been thought that the deed had been intentional. A SUCCESSFUL army, especially an insurgent army, should never pause in its onward march.
But it frequently happens that, owing to the numerous prairie-fires, either accidental or intentional, nothing is to be seen but a vast expanse of black charred ground, here and there relieved by a few patches of vivid green, where the grass is once more springing up under the influence of the rain.
"Are there not responsibilities attached to a clergyman's wife?" she once asked her mother. "I feel as if so much depended upon me to render him respected and beloved, that I sometimes fear I may fail in my duty, and, through ignorance, not intentional, perhaps bring discredit on his name. Dearest mother, how can I prevent this?"
They had not met since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and on his side the avoidance had been intentional.
Many intentional communes spring up, mushroom-fashion, and disappear with equal rapidity. Others endure for generations and centuries. In a very real sense they are pilot plants designed to correct individual or social maladjustments and substitute new ways for old ones.
Any intentional concealment of essential facts in the matter at issue, in his answers to questions asked of him as a witness, is a lie in essence.
Alexius looked at the Vavasour. He saw nothing in his large, well- formed features, lighted by a wild touch of enthusiasm which spoke in his quick eye, that intimated premeditated insult, and was induced to suppose that what had occurred, so contrary to the form and ceremonial of the Grecian court, was neither an intentional affront, nor designed as the means of introducing a quarrel.
His irritation grew at this seeming renewal of what had gone; it assumed the aspect of an intentional reproach, of Lettice returned to bother him with her pain and death. He turned sharply to continue on his way. But, almost immediately, he stopped. "Your name?" he demanded. "Adelaide Crandall."
I tell you that even getting so close to a man as that I mean as close as intentional emulation of him even getting as close as that makes me feel sick now. It's my own life I'm going to have, my own place, my own share; not modelled on any one else's.
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