As you may imagine, I accepted without hesitation.
Clairette, who saw that the little hunchback was acquainted with everything, smilingly accepted a double louis which he slipped into her hand, and asked nothing better than to act as our confederate.
As he spoke, the young man took from his pocket a purse, which the steward accepted without hesitation.
A note for twelve hundred francs, acceptedby a famous banker of Paris.
Edouard accepted this invitation with a good heart; he had taken off his jacket and was about to remove his waistcoat, when a sudden reflection stopped him, and he stood before the wood-cutter, speechless with confusion.
Jacques joyfully accepted the commission entrusted to him.
I was, Mr. Davis—just then,” answered Bess as she accepted the outstretched hand.
Never had he seen her in all his years at school and college, although many who were fair and sweet would gladly have accepted his attentions.
He had hoped to carry on his father’s law business, but a severe illness necessitated his leaving the city, and so he gladly accepted the offer of Henry West to come to his ranch and assume the foremanship.
Thanks, Henry, it is a perfect beauty,” said Bess, as sheaccepted the gun.
Stephen Collins accepted the invitation, and on a dreary Friday afternoon at the end of October the three gathered round a cheerful fire in the old-fashioned parlour.
If the great political martyrs, Lord William Russell and Algernon Sydney, accepted bribes from Louis XIV.
In Hungary, the few natives who haveaccepted office under Austria, are treated by their countrymen as the veriest Pariahs, and the officials of Government are thwarted and harassed in every way possible.
Not being able to do it, as regarded any one in particular, was illogically accepted as an excuse for the military engagement that bound me to attempt it with regard to all in mass.
These letters, fourteen in all, are accepted as genuine by Jerome, de vir.
The poem in its present form is accepted by Ribbeck, but it does not correspond exactly to the account given by Donatus of the contents.
The statements of the vitae must be carefully weighed, and accepted only when rendered probable by other considerations.
So far as I am aware, she was accepted at her face value, as a young Provençal whom I had courted in her own country.
Every rumor or invention was accepted with equal credulity.
But even though I accepted your supposed revelation, I should refuse to help you.
The chances were, she would not have accepted him; she belonged to a more modish world.
I thought she had accepted a temporary position down in Suffolk as the companion of an old school friend, Lady Katharine Fordham.
Lisch with the most extraordinary objects from this lake-dwelling, all of which were acceptedwithout exciting the slightest suspicion that any of them had been falsified.
But none of these discoveries had ever suggested to any one the idea of a lake-dwelling, the common and accepted opinion being that they were remains of Druidical times and customs.
Underneath them was a group of twelve graves which, from the long iron swords and characteristic fibulæ found along with the bodies, are now universally accepted as Celtic or Gaulish.
His control was not entirely shattered, however, and he was accepted for treatment.
Whitney would never have invented the cotton gin if he had accepted the failures of others as final.
We accepted the mission, and having done so it became our bounden duty to perform it whatever might be the result.
The "law" of the free Anglo-Saxon people was regarded as a thing existing by itself, like the sunlight, or at least as existing like a universally accepted custom observed by every one.
This estimate was made nearly a half-century ago and has generally been accepted as representing actual conditions.
I shall seek to show that the estimate of the amount of talent in existence which is usually accepted is too small.
Let us consider now for a little time the reasons why the metric system has not been accepted and adopted for use in the United States.
Within six years, Jenner's gift to humanity had been accepted with that readiness with which the drowning clutch at straws.
It is now generally accepted that this is not probable, and that whether it cooled from a gas or coagulated from planetesimals, it became solid first at the center which then would be hottest, and both Becker[3] and A.
Physical struggle is no longer accepted as either a necessary or a desirable means of settling differences between individuals.
For a long time this view was stoutly resisted, but it has now been accepted as probably representing the truth.
Since locating a district for the permanent seat of the Government of the United States, as heretofore announced to both Houses of Congress, I have accepted the grants of money and of land stated in the memorial of the commissioners.
Whatsoever those services may be which you have sanctioned by your favor, it is a sufficient reward that they have been accepted as they were meant.
Very Dear Great Friends and Allies: We make it our duty to inform you that we have accepted the constitution which has been presented to us in the name of the nation, and according to which France will be henceforth governed.
No matter how poor, how lowly, how sinful in time past, the love of a repentant soul he accepted as a priceless treasure.
I tell you a truth; no prophet is accepted in his own country.
We gather incidentally from many seemingly casual statements that Jesus was often invited to feasts in the houses of both rich and poor, and cheerfully accepted these invitations even on the Sabbath day.
I accepted the invitation, and the little girl showed me into a small and very prettily furnished parlor.
Both women accepted his message and believed his Messiahship--Martha, from the witness of his splendid miracles; Mary, from the deep accord of her heart with the wonderful words he had uttered.
As his Father had chosen this member to be in intimate nearness to himself, Jesus accepted him, bore with him, loved him, and treated him to the last with the same unvarying sweetness that he showed to the more congenial natures.
The grave answer of Jesus reminded them that it was of far more importance to be really accepted of God as true Christians than to have the most brilliant gifts and powers.
We see intimated that the acceptedones are amazed to find themselves recognized as having shown personal regard to Christ, and say, "Lord, when saw we thee hungry or athirst or in prison and ministered to thee?
By every wish repressed and hope resigned, Each cross accepted and each sorrow borne, She dead yet speaketh, she doth beckon you To tread the path her patient feet have worn.
However, Louis XVIII had accepted the substance of Talleyrand's constitution, and he gave the guarantees which were to dispel the expectation of vindictiveness.
No one would question that he, as usual, accepted presents from the States that benefitted by admission.
Talleyrand happened to have a debt owing from the former Spanish ambassador, and he now accepted that nobleman's mansion, the Hotel St. Florentin, in discharge of it.
Talleyrand was generously assisted by the Emperor in a grave financial crisis, of which I will speak presently, and accepted an appointment from him to a political mission.
It is probable enough that Talleyrand accepted from these sums of money that were collectively respectable.
Before going to Rheims he had applied for admission into the Society of the Sorbonne and been accepted (after formal proof of his moral and intellectual qualities).
By the middle of July Leopold was accepted in Belgium, and the irritating problem was settled.
Talleyrand thought it wise to withdraw from the Directors, and they accepted his resignation on July 20th, with some show of regret.
Louis accepted his resignation with a mingled feeling of apprehension and relief.
The Republicans were gradually controlled, and the Duke of Orleans was accepted as the head of the State.
The perspicacious Louis solemnly accepted Talleyrand's assurance that it was his (the King's) lofty enunciation of principles which had changed the atmosphere of Vienna.
He is provoked to think you haven't accepted his offer before, and, of course, that won't incline him to be any more liberal.
If the young collegian had not been the son of a wealthy man, whose social position was higher than his own, James would not so readily have accepted the apology.
He accepted it with an absent air, although a look of genuine boyish delight thrust its way through the fishy inertness of his average expression.
She graciously accepted the statues which were decreed to her in gratitude for her munificence--a statue of gold erected in the Curia, and one of bronze in the museum.
This seems to have been allowed to result in a slight showing of ill will between the native and foreign-born Jews who accepted Christ.
And from the days of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the women of antiquity accepted in large numbers the new teaching.
She accepted this ring with great joy, and said to Aurelian, 'Take for recompense of thy pains these hundred sous in gold and this ring of mine.
Either this latter statement must be accepted as the fact in the case, or we must believe that the first empress was divorced, a procedure that was certainly not difficult and was extremely customary for the rulers of Rome.
Reassured by this argument, and seduced by the masculine taste for adventure, most historians have complacently accepted this piquant history and have applied to Theodora the vilest epithets.
This, we are told, was accepted by the Gnostic Christians as early as the second century; but it is full of manifest absurdities, outrageous even to the most compliant credulity.
She did not treat him as an accepted lover, nor yet as a rejected one; she discriminated with the nicest delicacy.
She accepted the accompanying humiliation, finding no refuge in Imogen's spiritual consolations.
She must really, by this time, have enough acceptedhim as one of themselves to feel his right to hear all sorts of impressions.
Imogen accepted the restatement, though her voice trembled a little more.
Gravely pressing his hand, she accepted the cutting compact, and, over her breathless sense of loss, held firm to the spiritual advantage of magnanimity and courage.
The President accepted it without betraying any feeling, as an employé at the registry office receives any deed of declaration.
It was said of her that she accepted a compliment as timidly as a boarding-school miss receives a prize.
Marianne permitted him to talk, accepted all his gallantries as she might have done bonbons, and with a woman's wit kept him at a distance without wounding his vanity.
Adrienne accepted as well as she could the necessities of her new position.
It was said in the neighborhood that the greater part of the ministers had accepted invitations.
Cartoner gave the workman half a rouble, which was accepted with a muttered word of thanks, and then he turned towards the great doors, which were barred.
Is it not an accepted theory that quiet men like best those girls who are lively?
Miss Mangles sat down and accepted Lady Orlay's invitation in the full and perfect conviction that she owed it to her greatness.
Then he suddenly emerged from that quiet shelter, and accepted the urgent invitation of a hansom-cab driver to get into his vehicle.
Deulin always took the lead in these small matters, and Cartoner acceptedhis decision without comment.
Puss tried, by various ingenious devices, to learn whether Mr. Brice had accepted his invitation.
She afterwards admitted that sheaccepted him to tease Clarence.
I had treated him as I would any ordinary kind father and he had been so astonished and pleased at his portrait that he had unconsciously accepted it as a likeness and begun to pose to look like it.
I accepted his offer and tied it over the lower part of my face.
Right gladly the Jesuits accepted the offer and were rowed ashore in the boat of the generous friars.
Yet with dogged courage Champlain accepted the situation, hoping that relief would come before the ice formed in the St Lawrence.
They listened attentively to the message from the governor, and accepted the wampum belts and gifts which he bore.
