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If you require more of me, I say that you are overstepping your authority, and I refuse. Set the black cross against my name if you will. I will take the risk." The Prince came a little nearer to her. She held her own bravely enough, but there was a look in his face which terrified her. "Lucille," he said, "you force me to disclose something which I have kept so far to myself.
The accidental occasion, which made that cause operative on the 7th of October, might or might not be what Mr. W. says. And for the first time I fancied that he seemed displeased with my importunity, as though I were overstepping the just line of my duties. He insisted that the cheese never had done him any harm, nor would now.
Let it not be said, that in calling public attention to these evil consequences on the female portion of the community, we are overstepping the boundaries of propriety or decency. There is a license for the poet; a license for the stage; a license for the bar; a license for the writer of fiction; a license for the press, and why should there not be a license for a Christian writer?
The cat, infuriated by the pain of spear wounds, was overstepping the bounds of caution. Already he had reached a point where he could do little more than maintain a secure footing, and it was this moment that Tarzan chose to charge.
'But there are many subtle little ways in which a woman can convey to a man her preference for him, I penned, 'without for a moment overstepping the bounds of that maidenly reticence which is one of the charms of The door opened and Elizabeth entered. Elizabeth has a way of entering when I am most likely to lose the thread of my sentence. 'I'm fair worried about Miss Marryun, she began.
As for suspecting him to be mad, it would have been a common idea: no stretching of speech or overstepping of social rules could waken a suspicion so spiritless in Woodseer. He said: 'I can tell you I met her and she lives. I could as soon swim in that torrent or leap the mountain as repeat what she spoke, or sketch a feature of her. She goes into the blood, she is a new idea of women.
With an impetuous movement he leaned towards her and caught her hand in his. "Nan!" he said hoarsely, "Nan! Do you care?" But the next moment he had released her. "I'm a fool!" he said. "What's the use of drawing a boundary line and then overstepping it?" "And where" Nan's voice was very low "where do you draw the line?" He stood motionless a moment.
And so he never met with much difficulty in overstepping any of the ancient usages. When he brought in Miss Gilby, to teach me and be my companion, he stuck to his resolve in spite of the poison secreted by all the wagging tongues at home and outside. My husband had then just got through his B.A. examination and was reading for his M.A. degree; so he had to stay in Calcutta to attend college.
From the beginning the main efforts of the other side had been directed toward saving him, while as the case proceeded I listened with decreasing interest, until at last the prosecutor said: "My opponent has done his utmost, even overstepping limits, to prove that the witness Lorimer has ended a long course of injury by supporting a false charge against the prisoner Fletcher.
The attack lasted three or four days, and Crombie, though the affair of the directorship was pressing for attention, could not forbear to remain as near as possible to Blanche, offering every aid within his power, so far as he might without overstepping the lines of his very recent acquaintance.
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