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Hold it for certain that she alone is chaste who either had never suit made to her, or, suing herself, was repulsed. And albeit I know that for reasons true and founded in nature this must needs be, yet I should not speak so positively thereof as I do, had I not many a time with many a woman verified it by experience.
'I mean to say nothing of the kind; but I don't propose to play into their hands by suing them at least, I should not if it were my case instead of Kenyon's. 'What would you do? 'I would let them sue me if they wanted to. Of course, their canvasser called to see you, didn't he, Kenyon? 'Yes, he did. 'He told you that he had a certain amount of space to sell for a certain sum in cash? 'Yes.
The persons whom Greeley saw had no authority to treat about anything. Greeley in his irritation now urged Lincoln to convey to Jefferson Davis through these mysterious men his readiness to receive them if they were accredited. In other words, the North was to begin suing for peace a thing clearly unwise, which Lincoln refused.
"You bet he still owes it. Always will. It's so small that it ain't worth while suing for " "Look here, Mr. Sperry, how much is this bill with the whiskers?" "About fifty dollars, I think," said the travelling man, fumbling for his wallet.
Old Mack's down with a case of Indian summer. He overlooked his bet when he was young; and now he's suing Nature for the interest on the promissory note he took from Cupid instead of the cash. Rebosa, are you bent on having this marriage occur?" "Why, sure I am," says she, oscillating the pansies on her hat, "and so is somebody else, I reckon." "What time is it to take place?" I asks.
It was the Widow Lacoste herself, however, who demanded an exhumation and autopsy on the body of her late husband this as a preliminary to suing her traducers. On the orders of the Juge d'instruction an autopsy was begun on the 18th of December.
"I don't care about suing him on my own account," said the client, who, perhaps, not reposing unlimited confidence in the young man's knowledge of law, and doubting the success of a civil action, had visions of possible costs he might be obliged to pay floating before his imagination.
If we do not begin there, I am afraid, as Lord Bolingbroke says, we shall be suing for it elsewhere, and at the gates of every other palace in Europe. I have received an anonymous letter from Ireland, dated Dublin the 6th inst. The hand is a good one, and of a person of fashion. He makes a demand of 500 pounds, which he says that he must have by my means. The place I am to direct to is specified.
My uncle's messenger had hindered my suing, so while we hastily looked through Ann's store of holiday raiment, I brought my pleading for Master Peter to an end; and what I looked for came, in truth, to pass: without seeming one whit surprised she steadfastly rejected his suit, saying that he was the poor, good, faithful Magister, and worthy to win a wife whose heart was all his own.
To the latter class of narrative the following thrilling tale, which combines very ingeniously the various points of historic interest in Bath, must, it is to be feared, belong. The story goes that Blackbeard, with the consent of her father, was suing for the hand of Governor Eden's daughter.
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