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Monsieur Auguste palliated most of his conceited offensiveness on the ground that he was un garcon; we on the ground that he was obviously and unmistakably The Zulu's friend. Underneath which beautiful picture I was instructed to perpetrate the flourishing inscription "Vive la Pologne" which I did to the best of my limited ability and for Monsieur Auguste's sake.
Johnson who could not make up his mind which leg of his breeches he would put his foot into first. Meanwhile, said the Doctor, with a directness of speech which requires to be palliated, the process of investiture is suspended. But the practical result of the dilemma is the rise of specialism. The savant is dead and the specialist rules.
This palliated in her mind the disloyalty of which she was guilty towards him, and at last, in the summer just gone, she had actually written to Mr. Hollins for proofs of his assertions. For a long time for weeks he seemed to hold back, but at last there came three letters, written in a pretty, girlish hand. She shrank from opening them, but Mr.
"No one likes her income cut down, you know," she palliated. "Income! What is that to human decencies?" cried the newly awakened apostle. "Your husband doesn't entirely agree with you in some of these matters, I suppose." "Oh, yes he does, in his heart! But there's something about politics that won't let you come right out and say what you think."
That dishonor had been palliated from the first by the genealogical pretensions of the English royal family to the French throne, and these pretensions were strengthened in the person of the present claimant. But the military desolation of France, this it was that woke the faith of Joanna in her own heavenly mission of deliverance.
Her mother, of a respectable family called Van der Genst, in Oudenarde, had been adopted and brought up by the distinguished house of Hoogstraaten. Peculiar circumstances, not necessary to relate at length, had palliated the fault to which Margaret owed her imperial origin, and gave the child almost a legitimate claim upon its father's protection. The claim was honorably acknowledged.
It was palliated by the necessity of conciliating influential men, and of avoiding antagonisms when the fate of the nation trembled in the balance; but this was a political motive, and the evil was probably endured in spite of its well-known tendency to weaken the military service.
"Good-morrow to you, sir," said Martha, to Nigel, in a tone of direct and positive dismissal. "It cannot be agreeable to a daughter that a stranger should hear her father speak thus. If you be really a gentleman, you will retire to your own apartment." "I will not delay a moment," said Nigel, respectfully, for he was sensible that circumstances palliated the woman's rudeness.
To use his own words, he considered "slavery a crime to be abolished; not merely an evil to be palliated."
He loved ease, and was averse to self-denial and hardship hence his indiscretions and follies. But the most distinguishing trait of his character was his honesty, and this feature redeemed and palliated his few irregularities. Augustine and his mother, St. The scholars of Carthage were anything but sober, industrious, modest, and orderly youths.
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