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He is certainly an intriguing wretch, and full of inventions. Upon my word, I most heartily despise that sex! I wish they would let our fathers and mothers alone; teasing them to tease us with their golden promises, and protestations and settlements, and the rest of their ostentatious nonsense. How charmingly might you and I live together, and despise them all!
There is also a third kind of man, fortunately a very rare kind. He is capable of conceiving great ideas, and has besides an insatiable delight in working out details. He may end his days as a victorious general, or even as an emperor. If he prefers a less ostentatious kind of reward, he will die a millionaire. Dr. Lucius O'Grady belonged to this third class.
If you stand mute a terrible punishment awaits you." Justice Millet interposed, "I repeat that the prisoner must plead. In the ancient law of peine forte et dure an exception is expressly made of all cases of regicide." "The indictment does not specify regicide as the prisoner's treason." Justice Millet hid his discomfiture in an ostentatious perusal of a copy of the indictment.
"Never you trouble your head about this man," retorted the contentious Mr. Cruncher; "you'll have trouble enough with giving your attention to that gentleman. And look here! Once more!" Mr. Cruncher could not be restrained from making rather an ostentatious parade of his liberality "I'd catch hold of your throat and choke you for half a guinea."
That there were many swaggerers and bullies about, we learn from Duerer's prints. In every crowd these gentlemen in leathern tights, with other ostentatious additions to their costume, besides poniards and daggers to emphasise the brutal male, strut straddle-legged and self-assured; and of course raw lads and loutish prentices yielded them the sincerest flattery.
Four cobblers of Warwick piously bore the headless corpse within their town. But the grim earl sent it back, because it was not found on his fee. At last some Oxford Dominicans took charge of the body and deposited it temporarily in their convent, not daring to inter it in holy ground, as Gaveston had died excommunicate. The ostentatious violence of the confederate earls broke up their party.
Half an hour later the doctor tapped softly at his guest's door. "Found it?" he asked. "No, not yet; going to bed," was the answer, accompanied by an ostentatious yawn. "Good-night, doctor." Mr. Holmes had indeed found no pocket-book. The discovery he made was far less welcome.
The enterprise was promoted by the public or private exhortations of Clotilda. This ostentatious piety confirmed and justified the attachment of the Catholics, with whom he secretly corresponded; and their devout wishes were gradually ripened into a formidable conspiracy.
He lived, necessarily, with the frivolous and the ostentatious, yet ostentation and frivolity were charges never brought against himself. As a diplomatist and a statesman, he was of the old and erroneous school of intriguers; but his favourite policy was the science of conciliation.
That this may have been in some degree a designed reaction from ostentatious popularity is probable; and that it was in great part caught from his studious frequentation of that Hercynian forest, which takes the place of the groves of Academe in German philosophical writing, is certain.
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