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This was indeed a serious predicament; but presently Zoie saw her friend's mouth becoming very resolute, and she surmised that Aggie had solved the problem. "We'll have to get ANOTHER baby, that's all," decided Aggie. "There must be OTHER babies." "Where?" asked Zoie. "There, in the Children's Home," answered Aggie with great confidence, and she returned to the 'phone.
She wept when I told her how her child was disposed of, but said that she had no other alternative, as if her father, who was a lawyer of eminence, had any idea of her predicament, he would cast her off in shame; that when she first discovered her condition she persuaded her paramour to make a formal proposal for her hand, but her father was enraged beyond measure, and threatened her so terribly that she, for a time at least, put away all thoughts of Ferguson from her mind, and had not quite decided how to act, when the occurrence took place which led to the visit aforementioned, and caused the necessity for my attendance.
As the new commissioners had merely to take a message and were credited with no discretionary power, it was thought unnecessary to burden the higher magnates of the State with the unenviable task, or to expose them to the undignified predicament of finding their representations flouted by a rebel who might have eventually to be recognised as a king.
'Because then candour used to boast of conquering pride, said Percy, now speaking so as to be heard by her alone. 'Well. It was becoming a predicament, and you rescued me very ingeniously. There, will that content you? said Theodora, with one of the smiles the more winning because so rare. I am perfectly ready to own myself in the wrong when I see it. 'When you see it, said Percy, drily.
Foster, however, was not ready to tell Bob's employer of his predicament until he had obtained more information about the boy, and instead of answering the question, said: "You misunderstood my meaning. I want to know whether or not he is honest or has any bad habits."
I must personally have lived during this pale predicament almost only by seeing what I could, after my incorrigible ambulant fashion a practice that may well have made me pass for bringing home nothing in the least exhibitional rather than by pursuing the inquiries and interests that agitated, to whatever intensity, our on the whole widening little circle.
He knows the whole affair; no use in boring him with any more. I say, isn't he grown prodigiously? And a captain already, just think of that." "And so, sir, you've heard of the sad predicament his folly has brought us into?" "Hush, hush, Anna Maria!" cried Bubbleton; "no nonsense, old girl. Burke will put all to rights; he's aide-de-camp to Murat, and dines with him every day, eh, Tom?"
What she was afraid would happen came to pass like a flash. Her foot slipped, she lost her balance, and the next instant was precipitated into the river! When the motion picture girl fell from the sycamore tree into the water, some of the members of the company, who sat or stood near by panting after their hard chase cross-lots, actually laughed at their unfortunate comrade's predicament.
'They reluctantly consented, and rescued us from a very embarrassing predicament. The success of the Bank of England on this occasion was owing to its complete adoption of right principles. The Bank adopted these principles very late; but when it adopted them it adopted them completely.
John Bull sees now that he never was in a worse predicament in his life; and yet it would not take much to make him roar as bellicosely as ever. I went to bed at eleven, and slept unquietly on feathers. I had purposed to rise betimes, and see the town of Lancaster before breakfast.
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