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His brother Gurth, a man of bravery and conduct, began to entertain apprehensions of the event; and remonstrated with the king, that it would be better policy to prolong the war; at least, to spare his own person in the action.

Cyr and Daubignoac; Tettenborn carried off these as well as the money. M. Schwartz remonstrated in his character of Prussian Consul, Prussia being the ally of Russia, but he was considered merely as a banker, and could obtain no redress.

He wrote he was glad she had reconsidered that trip; Alaska was no place for her." "Madam," Tisdale remonstrated softly, "you couldn't judge David Weatherbee literally by his letters. If you had ever felt his personality, you would have caught the undercurrent, deep and strong, sweeping between the lines. It wasn't himself that counted; it was what was best for her.

As the morning light began to break, somebody knocked at the door; it was Hannah: she took my hand misery levels all feeble distinctions of station, sex, age she noticed my excessive feverishness, and gravely remonstrated with me upon the necessity there was that I should maintain as much health as possible for the sake of 'others, if not for myself.

"I did na' think that the man was in earnest, an' I remonstrated with him on his folly an' injustice. This ended in a sharp quarrel atween us, and I left him to gang his ain gate, an' went to live with my uncle, who kept a blacksmith's forge in the village.

The two old men were together for about an hour, and then Lord Alston took his departure without asking for, or seeing any other one of the family. Lord Alston had remonstrated about the marriage, using at last very strong language to dissuade the baronet from a step which he thought so unfortunate; but he had remonstrated altogether in vain.

"But your head's bigger'n a bushel, Si," remonstrated the Sergeant. "Better let the doctor see it." "I don't want none of his bluemass or quinine," persisted Si. "That's all he ever gives for anything. The swellin' 'll come out o' my head in time, same as it does out o' other people's." "Corporal, I'll excuse you from duty to-day," said the Captain kindly.

You must read this!" and she drew out Carrington's letter, which she held before Madeleine's face. "Not now, Sybil!" remonstrated Mrs. Lee, dreading another long struggle. "I will read it after we have had some rest. Go to bed now!"

"I 'm afraid I can't sign the treaty," said Fellingham. "Here's more," said Van Diemen. "I'm a chilly man myself if I hear a laugh and think I know the aim of it. I'll meet what you like except scorn. I can't stand contempt. So I feel for another. And now you know." "It puts a stopper on the play of fancy, and checks the throwing off of steam," Fellingham remonstrated.

"That is the boy; but how the deuce did you know?" "Gentlemen to run with all the dirty boys looking on like horses," remonstrated the grammatical one, "it is a disgrace." "So it is for the one that is beat. Well, I was to meet Hazeltine to supper out of town. By-the-by, you don't know Tom Yates?" "Oh," said Jenny, "I have heard of him, too." "I doubt that; there are a good many of his name."