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Finn prowled cautiously up and down that fence for a couple of hundred yards in each direction, peering beyond it, and sniffing and listening with the extreme of suspiciousness, before he finally leaped the wire and continued his way in a south-easterly direction.
The gentry offered to strangers the usual open-handed hospitality characteristic of the frontier, with much more than the average frontier refinement; a hospitality, moreover, which was never marred or interfered with by the frontier suspiciousness of strangers which sometimes made the humbler people of the border seem churlish to travellers. In the Magazine of Am.
It must, with all regret, be conceded, that his progress in the knowledge of Christianity was not a progress in the practice of its virtues. His love of display and his prodigality, his suspiciousness and his despotism, increased with his power.
Roe then said, 'When it begins to hum. There are temperaments of a refined suspiciousness to which, when the plea of reform is urged, the claims of suffering humanity at once begin to hum. The very word reform irritates a peculiar kind of sensibility, as a red flag stirs the fury of a bull. A noted party leader said, with inexpressible scorn, 'When Dr.
It was curious to note the suspiciousness of the gentle creatures, also their quickness of observation. Had we been a couple of peasant women from a distance, they would have passed us without hesitation. I had evidently an outlandish look in their eyes. Only by dint of coaxing and calling each animal by name could the master get them to go by.
He thought of his wife's indifference! Yes, he might be driven to this, and at least he must secure the only witness against his previous misconduct. "We will see," he said soothingly, gently loosening her hands. "We must talk it over." He stopped as his old suspiciousness returned. "But you must have some friends," he said searchingly, "some one who has helped you." "None!
Phillis had discovered her absence, and had punished her; not with whipping, that was forbidden, but with some of the innumerable nursery tyrannies which Phillis called government. And Titia evidently thought, with the suspiciousness of all weak, cowed creatures, that Mrs. Grey must have had some hand in it that she had broken her promise, and betrayed her to this punishment.
The Comte de la Péna Anne of Austria and the orphan Popular atrocities The wages of crime Submission of the Duc de Mayenne Suspension of hostilities The great nobles return to the capital Louis refuses to be reconciled with his mother Insolence of De Vitry Generosity of the Duc de Rohan Marie de Medicis resolves to retire from the Court Richelieu offers to share her exile He becomes the secret emissary of De Luynes Gratitude of the deluded Queen A parting interview Marie de Medicis proceeds to Blois Destitution of the Maréchale d'Ancre Her despair Royal recreations A fatal parallel Madame de Condé requests permission to share the captivity of her husband Trial of Madame d'Ancre Her execution Cupidity of De Luynes Justice of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Death of the President de Thou Marriage of De Luynes with Mademoiselle de Montbazon De Luynes is created duke and peer Death of M. de Villeroy Recall of the old ministers Policy of De Luynes His suspiciousness His ambition De Luynes lodges his brothers in the Louvre The sign of "the Three Kings" Louis resolves to re-establish the Roman Catholic religion in Béarn, and to annex that principality to the Crown of France Meeting of the Notables at Rouen The French march to the support of the Duke of Savoy.
There is, however, not infrequently an underfeeling with educated natives that they are not sufficiently appreciated that they do not get the place due to them that they are treated as an inferior race; and there is consequently a suspiciousness fatal to cordiality. I am far from thinking that Europeans always treat educated natives with the courtesy due to them.
The embarrassment, suspiciousness, and uneasiness of the coach party here found relief in a half hysteric explosion of laughter, in which even the dogged Hiram and Sophy joined. It seemed as impossible to withstand the girl's invincible audacity as her beauty. She was quick to perceive her advantage, and, with a responsive laugh and a picturesque gesture of invitation, said:
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