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Still, this mystery renders it difficult for you to procure the assistance of a friend in a crisis so delicate nay, let me add, that many persons will even consider it as a piece of Quixotry in M'Intyre to give you a meeting, while your character and circumstances are involved in such obscurity." "I understand your innuendo, Mr.
Why, it's worse than Radicalism it's pure Socialism and Quixotry," said poor Sir John, who was proud of his Toryism. His wife only shook her head, and said, drily, that she would not undertake to prophesy. "Prophesy? My dear Selina, I merely want you to exert common caution and foresight. There is but one thing to do with Anna.
The dream of ours was shattered. How were we to reproach ourselves on his account? It would have been the Quixotry of conscience. "I daresay you won't like it so much as you think," said I, with a childish desire to make him a little less comfortable. "Oh, yes, I shall! And you'll like it, won't you?" He turned to his wife affectionately.
The noble creature regarded her love as a stimulating power; the desire which she had kindled in Lucien should give him the energy to win glory for himself. This feminine Quixotry is a sentiment which hallows love and turns it to worthy uses; it exalts and reverences love.
"Deliberating about marriage!" said the Major, "after leaving her father and lover for you! What gnat can she be straining at, after swallowing a camel of such magnitude?" "A piece of female Quixotry," returned Owen. "She says she can't think of such selfishness as being comfortably married herself, while Carlota is so unhappy, and her fate so unsettled."
It is proposed the pleasant men of Teviotdale should pay, not only their own share, that is, the expense of making the road through our own country, but also the expense of making the road under the Ellsdon Trust in Northumberland, where the English would positively do nothing. I stated this to the meeting as an act of Quixotry.
When an Austrian general who had flogged women in the conquered provinces appeared in the London streets, some common draymen off a cart behaved with the direct quixotry of Sir Lancelot or Sir Galahad. He had beaten women and they beat him.
'And there is also de Sailles, I reminded him. 'He has a very just taste in these affairs. But who is our opponent?" "'It is Bertin, he answered." "I was astonished, and he told me all. It was an episode of quixotry, a thing entirely imprudent and altogether lovable in him. It chanced that on the evening of Bertin's little er fracas, Vaucher had passed by the impasse in which Bertin lived.
Putting things together, he was sure who the man in the yard was; but it was not recognition, and he could not have proved it. 'What Quixotry moved my father not to put the lawyers on the scent?
War against injustice; sympathy with suffering; chivalry! Yes! But not quite to the point whence they recoiled on his daughter, his family, himself! The situation was impossible! He was fast resolving that, whether or no they saved Derek from this quixotry, the boy should not have Nedda. And already his eyes found difficulty in meeting hers.
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