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The discussion this day is not between establishment on one hand and toleration on the other, but between those who, being tolerated themselves, refuse toleration to others. That power should be puffed up with pride, that authority should degenerate into rigor, if not laudable, is but too natural.

First, then, madame is to fall ill not desperately ill, but just ill enough to be interesting, and to alarm the old man. By the way, Mr. Davlin left this morning for the city; that is one move. He is to remain in the city until after the illness of madame, who is to refuse to receive any of the village doctors.

An untrimmed beard, run wild; and a pair of whiskers so huge, as to refuse all accordance with the thin diminutive cheeks which wore them; thin lips, and a sharp chin; completed the outline of a very unprepossessing face, which a broad high forehead did not tend very much to improve or dignify.

I once had an idiot brother dead now and I understand well how to manage any one in a case like this. Besides, Hazlet is one of the many I have injured. Let me stay." "I really am afraid you won't like it." "Nonsense, Home; I won't give in, depend upon it. I am quite in earnest, and am besides most anxious that you should get a scholarship this time. Don't refuse me the privilege of helping you."

If I did not tell you this, you might indeed refuse to listen to me, thinking I was not myself. I cannot tell you more I cannot, I cannot! She pressed her palms upon her forehead; it throbbed with pain scarcely to be borne. Wilfrid, after a moment of wretched hesitation, said gravely: 'What you forbid me to ask, I may not even wish to know.

Occasionally, to be sure, the children insist upon books being easy to read, and refuse to find "lovely talk" in them if they are not. It was only a short time ago that I read to a little boy Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin." When I had finished there was a silence. "Do you like it?" I inquired. "Ye-es," replied my small friend; "it's a nice story, but it's nicer in my book than in yours.

"Miss Rosser, colonel," said Knight, standing between the pair. "Good-afternoon, Miss Rosser," cried Colonel Faversham. "Pray come in! You wish to see Carrissima! I assure you she will be immensely disappointed if you refuse to wait. I may mention that I had the pleasure of knowing your father." "Oh, I remember you perfectly," she replied. "As well as if it were yesterday."

This Kerensky idea made me quite angry and I said as calmly as I could under the circumstances: "With all of my reverence for your order, your Highnesses, I refuse to obey. Please shut the doors and don't wake up the others, I have my own accounts to settle."

"It must, in fact," she mused, "be because Pao-yue is angry with me for having explained to him the true reasons. But why did I ever go and tell you? You should, however, have made inquiries before you lost your temper to such an extent with me as to refuse to let me in to-day; but is it likely that we shall not by and bye meet face to face again?"

Madame, a few of us will meet there is it not so, Villedo? We shall count on you, madame. You have hidden yourself too long. I glanced at Diaz, and he nodded. As a fact, I wished to refuse; but I could not withstand the seduction of Morenita. She had a physical influence which was unique in my experience. 'I accept, I said.