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He was afraid that it might compromise his personal safety if he went to Italy; that he would be compelled to retract his opinions; that the censure might extend to Austria; that the sale of his work would be ruined; and that he must either abandon his country or his opinions.

After the regular business of the meeting had been concluded a marked silence followed, the girls hardly daring even to glance toward one another. Rose Dyer coughed nervously, yet as she had been chosen to set Polly's case plainly before the other girls and to ask for their frank opinions of what action, if any, the Sunrise Hill Club desired to take, her responsibility must not be evaded.

Did Mixtus not discover this view of Scintilla's before their marriage? Or did he allow her to remain in ignorance of habits and opinions which had made half the occupation of his youth?

The first point which impressed me was the extreme and utter innocence of the water-cure in skilful hands in any hands, indeed, not thoroughly new to the system. The next thing that struck me was the extraordinary ease with which, under this system, good habits are acquired and bad habits are relinquished. That which, thirdly, impressed me, was no less contrary to all my preconceived opinions.

It is no new observation that the influence of an author becomes in time something apart from his books: a certain generalised or abstract personality impresses itself on our minds, long after we have forgotten the details of his opinions, the arguments by which he enforced them, and even, what are usually the last to escape us, the images by which he illustrated them.

At present, unfortunately, his mother's opinions differing from his own, nothing could be done; but he could, in future, offer a site for a synagogue in the very part of the country that was desired, on lands that must in time be his. The priest was down to the ground, bowing, full of acknowledgments, and admiration of his lordship's generosity and liberality of principle.

This sort of assumption, though very ludicrous in itself, goes down wonderfully. Bob gradually became a sort of authority, and his opinions got quoted on 'Change. He was no ass, notwithstanding his peculiarities, and made good use of his opportunity. For myself, I bore my new dignities with an air of modest meekness.

That his son was not so popular as his father, in consequence of his politics, which were too conservative for the new class of tenants his father had brought in; and his religious opinions, which, said the clergyman, were those of a sound Churchman; by which he meant, I rather suspect, that he was a pretty smart Tractarian.

"I have learnt so much since I have been at this work. I have things to tell. Oh, you will see." "I remember Lady Anne as the staunchest of Conservatives." "Yes, yet she was tolerant of other opinions in her friends. She was very good to me, dear old Lady Anne." "To think I should not have remembered!" "I knew you all the time. To be sure, there was your name. I don't think you ever knew my name.