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He could remember various lovers running away together before marriage, but he could not call to mind a single instance in which they ran away from one another immediately after marriage. But he said to himself, "It will all be explained by-and-by," and he refrained from asking any impertinent questions merely to gratify curiosity.
Not until late that same evening did Glyn have an opportunity of investigating the mystery, for he had purposely refrained from making a confidant of Singh; so that it was after the latter was asleep that Glyn, rising softly, went over to the dressing-table and there lighted the chamber candle, which stood at the side of the looking-glass.
When you took that fourth cup of tea I said to myself " "HUSH! Oh, hush! DON'T talk so. I didn't dream. Mrs. Barnes, I woke up at two o'clock this morning and and I heard Medora snoring as plain as I ever heard anything." Thankful was strongly tempted to laugh, but the expression on Miss Timpson's face was so deadly serious that she refrained. "Goodness!" she exclaimed. "Is that all?
All I can do now is to keep it dry, and wait till I can see the whites of the enemy's eyes." He refrained from any comment on the identity of the enemy. He did not need to name names to Vona.
For a different intelligible character would have exhibited a different empirical character; and, when we say that, in spite of the course which his whole former life has taken, the offender could have refrained from uttering the falsehood, this means merely that the act was subject to the power and authority- permissive or prohibitive of reason.
We had just reached it, when I, happening to be a little in advance of our Dominie and Dan, saw a squirrel running along the ground towards a tree, with the evident intention of ascending it. We had already as much game as we required, so I refrained from firing.
On the occasion when he met Milvain and Marian together in the country road he had necessarily reflected upon the possibilities of such intercourse, and with the issue that he did not care to give any particular encouragement to its continuance. He of course heard of Milvain's leave-taking call, and he purposely refrained from seeing the young man after that.
"I did not want to take human life, and I refrained from this last step, and as the ship was bare of sails and we were in position to control the tiller we passed two days and a night, with only a few crackers for food, and almost exhausted from the strain.
Ellsworth's own proposition wait some time before you give a final answer; that is all that your grandfather and myself can ask." And such had been the decision; three months being the time appointed. Since then, both Mr. Wyllys and Miss Agnes had carefully refrained from expressing any farther opinion they never even alluded to the subject, but left Elinor to her own reflections.
"Oh, here's your little blue book," he added, feeling it in his pocket. "I found it behind the trunk when everything else was packed." "You saw er you saw Bridger, then? He is going to take his wife and Flora up North with him in the spring. It seems he has done well." "I know he told me." Dill turned the leaves of the book slowly, and consciously refrained from looking at Billy.
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