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She left de Marmont standing there in the corridor like some presumptuous beggar burning with rage and humiliation, too insignificant even to be feared.
My marriage is to be a secret one, on account of the mother and my father; therefore he must be enjoined to secrecy.’ A small double knock, like a presumptuous single one, was that instant heard at the street-door. It was Tibbs; it could be no one else; for no one else occupied five minutes in rubbing his shoes. He had been out to pay the baker’s bill. ‘Mr. Tibbs,’ called Mr.
So far as I am concerned, I do not wish to anger the former against the presumptuous adorer, and I desire to yield to the latter the obedience which is her due. Therefore I entreat you to forget the armlet and its many painful associations, and pass to the consideration of other matters.
"Well, count," said the king, after a long pause, "how is this strange request of Frederick II., that we should remain neutral, to be answered?" Before the count was able to answer, the queen said, in a loud voice: "By a declaration of war, my husband! This is due to your honor. We have been insulted; it therefore becomes you to throw down the gauntlet to your presumptuous adversary."
But, when we are told that the one is derogatory to the Divine Majesty, and the other alone consistent with the loftiest views of His perfections, we denounce the whole speculation as one that is alike presumptuous and unphilosophical, on the simple but conclusive ground that we are in no degree competent judges of the best method either of creating or of governing the world.
After what has been done, you won't have any difficulty in meeting Mr. Goffe." Mr. Flick had no difficulty in seeing Mr. Goffe, though he felt that there would be very much difficulty in seeing Mr. Daniel Thwaite. He did tell Mr. Goffe the story of the wicked tailor, by no means making those excuses which the Solicitor-General had made for the man's presumptuous covetousness.
She met his glance for a few seconds; then her lids were lowered and she bit her lip with vexation. "Shirley," he said. "You are presumptuous," she quavered. "You set me an example in presumption," he retorted good humouredly. "Did you not call ME by MY first name a minute ago?" He glanced toward Colonel Pennington and observed the latter with his neck craned across his protecting stump.
The appeal, energetic and well-meant as it was, had no result whatever. Mr. Taylor even thought it presumptuous on the part of the provincial doctor to give his counsel as well as his medicine, and wrote to Clare an order to dispense with his attendance, and come up to London to be cured. This was impossible, under the circumstances, Clare being so weak as to be unable to leave the room.
One more fruitless attempt was made to destroy the bridge and raise the siege, by means of an enormous vessel bearing the presumptuous title of The End of the War. But this floating citadel ran aground, without producing any effect; and the gallant governor of Antwerp, the celebrated Philip de Saint Aldegonde, was forced to capitulate on the 16th of August, after a siege of fourteen months.
Miss Edgeworth's general views, in these stories, are explained in the preface to the first volume. I cannot, however, omit repeating, that public favour has not yet rendered her so presumptuous as to offer hasty effusions to her readers, but that she takes a longer time to revise what she writes than the severe ancients required for the highest species of moral fiction.
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