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He died like a man, with composure and dignity. With a few such exceptions, prisoners are unrepentant except for business reasons that is, either because they recognize that crime does not pay, or in order to influence in their favor the pardoning power. Many of them, of course, employ their prison opportunities to devise new crimes and to train fresh recruits from the younger convicts.
These signs of pre-eminence had the virtue of wreaths without their inconveniences, which might have produced a melancholy effect in the heat of the ball-room. Altogether the Brackenshaw Archery Club was an institution framed with good taste, so as not to have by necessity any ridiculous incidents. And to-day all incalculable elements were in its favor.
If you choose to regard my little favor as a debt, however, please let it run on until you are better able to pay." But Anthony remained inflexible, and at last she accepted his proffer with some impatience. "You are the most foolish person I ever knew," she remarked. "Can't you understand that such obligations don't exist between friends? A few dollars mean nothing."
But I like Captain Haney, and I can see that from his point of view a 'straight game, as he calls it, is not a crime." "Yes, that's one good thing in his favor he never let a crooked deal pass in his place. But, after all, I can't forget that he was a gambler, and other people can't, and his record is dead against us here." Her face was dark as she resumed. "I'm a gambler's wife. Ain't that so?
An undeniable aggravation of the natural tendency to caress and cosset such products of the writer's literary industry as have met with special favor.
The magazine was given to you for $100 less than it should have been. The Token was saved by your writing. Unless you are already committed, do not mar the prospects of your first book by hoisting Goodrich into favor." This prevented the dedication, for which Hawthorne was afterward thankful enough.
The family was not in favor, and the avenues of prosperity were closed to them, as commonly happens in such cases. Neither does the family appear to have multiplied and extended itself like most of the old New England families, who can now count from a dozen to twenty branches in various places. Of John Hathorne's three sons only one appears to have left children.
Naturally it would be supposed that such Satan-inspired systems would have no value or power, since there could be no Divine favor upon them. Such a supposition would be possible only because of the prevailing misunderstanding as to the real power of Satan.
"Put your questions, Captain Poke; I hope the answers will be satisfactory." "Your name?" "John Goldencalf by the favor of his majesty, Sir John Goldencalf, Baronet." "Sir John Goldencalf by the favor of his majesty, a baronet! Is baronet a calling? or what sort of a crittur or thing is it?" "It is my rank in the kingdom to which I belong." "I begin to understand what you mean.
During the period while the President-elect was considering the appointment of his Cabinet, Lincoln used all the influence he could bring to bear, which was probably not very much, in favor of Baker for a place in the Government. The Whig members of the Legislatures of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin joined in this effort, which came to nothing.
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