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For all he knows, she may hate him as she hates her uncle George, in certain ways. However it is, he will tell her that he has no love for her. It shall be all fair and above-board between them. He can give her a title. She can give him money, without which the title would be useless. On the instant he makes up his mind to risk the proposal. In all probability she will say "No" to it.
Then he remembered the title of the new film of which the girls had spoken, and smiled at his own suspicions. "An American Beauty." It would be natural, perfectly natural for anyone to refer to Ruth as a rose, with that title for her latest picture. He dismissed the matter from his mind, and proceeded to make a hasty lunch.
But, robbers themselves, holding the land on the insecure title of might alone, fighting to the end, they had at last succumbed to the inevitable: the all-conquering invasion of the dominant Anglo-Saxon.
One of our leading scholars was speaking of it to me the other day. 'We must have a new edition, he said; people are just ripe for that book. Did you ever think of that? Change the form of it a little, and give it a new title, and it will be a popular book. Five thousand or more, very likely." Mr.
He turned his glazing eyes upon her. "Who are you?" he said in a feeble voice. "An old friend," she answered; "you knew me as Myrtle Hazard." He started. "You by my bedside! You caring for me! for me, that burned the title to your fortune to ashes before your eyes! You can't forgive that, I won't believe it! Don't you hate me, dying as I am?"
It is not intellect, nor activity, nor wealth, that obtains most power over men; but force of character, self-control, a quiet, compressed will and patient resolve; these qualities make one man the natural ruler over others by a title they never dispute.
Many men have proposed marriage to me in my time, to prove what fools they were, I suppose. More than once they've offered me their ducal crowns or the prestige of their marquisates, with the idea that title and social position would hold me back when I got bored and tried to fly away. But imagine me married! Could anything be more absurd?"
The sparkle in his eyes was the first evidence of emotion she had ever seen in him. It rather pleased her. "It is for the good of the state. A princess like yourself must never wed an inferior." "Would a man who was brave and kind and resourceful, but without a title, would he be an inferior?" "Assuredly, politically.
If they were stolen, for instance, we should be unable to demand their restitution; we should have no title; we should be unable even to communicate with the police. Such is the monstrous condition of the law. It is a mere instance of what remains to be done, of the injustices that may yet be righted by an ardent, active, and philosophical deputy.
It annoys me very much to think Godfrey is heir to my title. It used to annoy me still more to think that Marion meant to marry him. She assures me now that she never intended to; but she used to take an interest in his talk about clothes and he certainly intended to marry her. There are some churches in which it is considered desirable to keep the sexes apart.
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