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The governor took the first opportunity to bring the affair of Miss Matthews upon the carpet, and then, turning to Murphy, he said, "It is very lucky this gentleman happens to be present; I do assure you, madam, your cause cannot be in abler hands. He is, I believe, the best man in England at a defence; I have known him often succeed against the most positive evidence."
At least we shall see what he can have to do with O'Donoghan, if we ever find the Irishman." As for Erik, he did not even dare to express the sentiments which the sight of this man awakened in him. It was more than repulsion, it was positive hatred, and an instinctive desire to rush upon him and throw him into the sea.
Then too, those caustic remarks of so positive a nature concerning green with her red hair, which Miss Eliza had spoken so often in her hearing, began to worm themselves into her consciousness. The happy expression, roused by the first sight of this creation, faded quite noticeably. "What's the matter?" inquired Elinor. "I think that's the dress of all dresses for you, dear. If you like it.
Being himself restrained by no positive laws or regulations that have been adopted by the people, or that may be altered by them, the people have no political rights. In a mixed government, or limited monarchy, political power is exercised to some extent.
When, therefore, a part is treated with the positive pole, or when the part under treatment appears anywhere between the positive pole and the central point, it is not unusual to say, It is treated with the inward current.
I. Positive statement of Life, I. Contradictions, anachronisms, corroborated by Lives of SS. &c., of Life. Ciaran and Ailbhe. II. Lack of allusion to Declan in II. Patrick's apparent avoidance the Lives of St. Patrick. of the Principality of Decies.
I asked him what he was going to put into the book, and he said that his log was just running out and he needed a new volume." "You are sure that you did not mistake the old, full book for the new, empty one, Albert?" asked his friend. "I cannot be positive, of course, but I feel no shadow of doubt in my own mind." "Then the one has been substituted for the other by somebody else.
After all, however mystifying it may be to the ordinary mind, hard facts cannot be ignored, and proof positive has repeatedly been adduced of the good work done by men possessing this marvellous faculty.
It may be sweet and decorous, as I used to write in my copy-book, to die for one's native land; but I will be shot if it is sweet and decorous to marry for it. And practically that is what it amounts to. Men marry for the sake of others, rarely for their own, and as for women, whatever their reasons may be, plaudite sed cavite, cives! Eden, I am positive, married out of pique.
"Pardon me," suggested the Doctor; "you promised me a narrative, I believe." "We'll proceed, then. Our methods this, at least, is important were different: which made it the more distressing that the similarity of our names confused us in our enemies' minds, who grossly mistook us for one and the same person: which not only humiliated us as artists but ended in positive inconvenience.
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