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The House of Assembly might talk, and raise money, but it did not control the expenditure, the patronage, or the administration, and it could neither make nor unmake the ministry. The more important House was the Council, which consisted of twelve gentlemen appointed by the king, and holding their offices practically for life.
But a moment later the entrance of Aunt Pike helped her to recover herself Aunt Pike, with a white face and an expression on it which said plainly that her mind was made up and nothing would unmake it. Betty and Tony stepped forward to meet her. "How do you do, Elizabeth? How do you do, Anthony?
"It's a good place we're thinking of, and I reckon you're sorry enough you left it before you were obliged to. We all make mistakes, my boy, and the fortunate ones are those who live long enough to unmake them." His warm smile shone out suddenly, and without waiting for a reply, he began to ask for news of Jack Powell and his comrades, all of whom he knew by name.
"He is one of Gigonnet's lambs, a spy for Palma, Werbrust, Gobseck, and the rest of those crocodiles who swim in the Paris money-market. Every man with a fortune to make, or unmake, is sure to come across one of them sooner or later." "If you cannot discount your bills at fifty per cent," remarked Lousteau, "you must exchange them for hard cash." "How?"
It was quite trouble enough to make up one's mind, without having you afterwards trying to unmake it again." "Amyas! if you give her up to me, God do so to me, and more also, if I do not hereby give her up to you!" "He had done it already this morning!" said Mrs. Leigh, looking up through her tears. "He renounced her forever on his knees before me! only he is too noble to tell you so."
She was angry now, and the rich colour came into her handsome dark face. "Don Antonio Perez," she said, "take care! I have made you. I can also unmake you." Perez assumed an air of simple and innocent surprise, as if he were quite sure that he had said nothing to annoy her, still less to wound her deeply.
He presides over a parish now, and thinks it rather a dashing thing to belong to the 'Oxford and Cambridge Club; and his parishioners love him, and snore under his sermons. No, no, HE is not a Snob. It is not straps that make the gentleman, or highlows that unmake him, be they ever so thick.
To this floating population is it given to make or unmake Cabinets; theirs is the righteous indignation that sweeps the country like a new broom, and sweeps Ministries into limbo; to them is made the magniloquent "appeal to the country!" L'etat, c'est nous! might be the motto of this third party, were it but conscious of itself as a party. "The majority is never right," cries Dr.
"We cannot make or unmake God's laws in our thoughts," the other answered; "you were wilfully blind to the knowledge that was in your heart." "Oh, no," Joan began. Mrs. Westwood swept the remark aside and stood up. "We will not argue about it," she said; "I realize that you are not yet looking for the comfort or promise of pardon which I could lead you to.
'Of course, he interrupted, 'the God you believe in could have made me for a minute or two. He can, I suppose, unmake me now when he likes. 'Yes; but could he have made you all at once capable of understanding his plans, and your own future? Perhaps that is what he is doing now making you, by all you are going through, capable of understanding them.
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