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'I really think we could walk home very well; don't you, Mary? she said; and I declared myself quite equal to the walk. 'It would be impossible for you to get back to Thornleigh before dark, the gentleman remonstrated. 'I shall be quite offended if you refuse the use of my dog-cart, and insist on getting wet feet. I daresay your feet are wet as it is, by the bye.
"No, I can't do it," Cornelia still protested; but the reasons why she could not, seemed to have escaped her, or to have turned into mere excuses. In fact, since Charmian had proposed it, and seemed to wish it, they were really no longer reasons. Cornelia alleged them again with a sense of their fatuity. She did not finally assent; she did not finally refuse; but she felt that she was very weak.
We ask his means, and see but his own abilities. His treasury becomes impoverished his enemies revolt the Church takes advantage of his weakness he is excommunicated the soldiers refuse to fight the People refuse to assist the Barons ravage the country the ways are closed, the provisions are cut off from Rome.
"I would die for you, I love you so. And yet I can do nothing." "You can do something; you can do everything. You can save me from him." "Oh," I cried, "I know I must appear a pitiful coward to you. It is for me you have placed yourself in this position, while I refuse to try to liberate you from it. If I only could; if I dared! But I am chained on every hand."
The best of the sex will not refuse a just and overdue compliment from even the man they dislike. It's the principle they're after, not the sentiment. But Victor was not satisfied with this proof of his niece's skill. "Say to her," he demanded of Miguel, "what name thou likest, and it shall be done before thee here."
She and the Archdeacon conceived that the Oxford authorities were mainly occupied in ruining the young men's health by over-examination, and poisoning their minds by free-thinking opinions. In her belief, if it went on, the mothers of England would refuse to send their sons to these ancient but deadly resorts. She looked at him sternly as she spoke, as though defying him to be flippant in return.
The men are unwashed and filthy; the women walk abroad unveiled, and never refuse themselves, I am told, to the higher blood. I have not yet had an opportunity of carefully studying the race; nor can I say whether it shows any traces of skill in metal-working.
It was their enmity to you that drove them into exile. In your rashness you have recalled them, whilst at the same time you have so bound my hands that I cannot now help you if I would." "You can, Mary," he cried, "or else no one can. Withhold the pardon they will presently be seeking of you. Refuse to sign any remission of their deed."
And in that moment of dejection the poor fellow's devotion brought me no little comfort. At such times the heart is bitter. We look askance at our friends, and make the task of comfort doubly hard for those that remain true. I had a great affection for the man, and had become so used to his ways and unwearying service that I had not the courage to refuse his prayers to go with me to America.
Should you see fit to refund me these amounts, I shall not refuse the money; if, on the other hand, you repudiate the claim, I shall let the matter drop. I could not permit my friend to be buried as a pauper. "It is possible that you may wish a stone placed at the head of the grave. A suitable cross of plain white marble would cost about two hundred dollars.
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