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Union regiments marched in without proper equipment and with next to no supplies. There were boards of inquiry on his contracts. There were endless cross-purposes between him and Washington. And early in November he was transferred to West Virginia just as he was about to attack with what seemed to him every prospect of success. He had not succeeded. But he had done good work in fortifying St.
More than any other Englishman he won the love and admiration of his country, but won them through the efficacy of qualities that are not English, or, at all events, were intensified in his case and made poignant and powerful by something morbid in the man, which put him otherwise at cross-purposes with life.
Not until then did I fully believe you guilty. We were at cross-purposes, you see, throughout the piece." "Cross-purposes, indeed!" repeated Hamish. "Have you believed me guilty until now?" "No," replied Hamish. "After a few days my infatuation wore off. It was an infatuation, and nothing less, ever to have believed a Channing guilty.
"I was in hopes to have found him here." "Then he and you have been playing at cross-purposes to-day," remarked the doctor, with a smile. "Lawrence started this morning for Verner's Pride." "Indeed," exclaimed Lionel. "Cross-purposes indeed!" he muttered to himself. "He heard some news in Paris which concerned you, I believe, and hastened home to pay you a visit."
Richard had worked at cross-purposes and returned to his boarding-house vaguely dissatisfied, as always happened to him on those rare occasions when she missed the appointment; but he had thought little of the circumstance. Nor had he been disturbed on Sunday at seeing the Slocum pew vacant during both services.
If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions, most stale and unprofitable."
"That is a hard rule, master," said Morano. And Rodriguez was indignant, when he heard that, that anyone should thus blaspheme against an obvious law of chivalry: while Morano's only thought was upon the injustice of giving up the sweets of life for the sake of a frying-pan. Thus they were at cross-purposes.
But I swear to you that the meeting was unsought by me. I could not help myself. I do not know how all this has come about. I understood from Standon that that he was engaged to " "Muriel Branton," interrupted Constance softly. "He told me himself." For a moment Adrien stared at her in stupefaction. "If I had known we were at cross-purposes!" he exclaimed.
That ambassador returned furious, crying out against the Spanish Government, and especially against Madame des Ursins, who directed everything, he said, and who had played at cross-purposes in order to cause his mission to miscarry.
"There is no longer need of any secrets between us. We have met only once before to-night, but that meeting was of such a character that we were instantly acquainted. To be sure we were working at cross-purposes, and you outwitted me, but later you squared all that by saving me from capture." "Why go over that unfortunate occurrence?" she interrupted.
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