Nevertheless he was soon to learn it, for while he was busied in settling his father's affairs and organizing his own projects of fortune and ambition, one fine morning in August he met with a lively surprise.
My affairs are disordered, it is true; but I shall still remain richer than you.
The disorder of his affairs had begun a long time before, and it was to repair them that he had married; a process that had not proved successful.
As I said before, nobody knows in what state Kromitzki's affairs are, but I suppose that a man who speculates is liable to losses as well as to gains.
During the last few weeks he must have been in a state of feverish anxiety, travelling from one place to another as the entangled position of his affairs drove him.
I added that it was mainly to inquire about the state of his affairs that I had gone to Vienna.
Chwastowski showed me his son's letter, in which he says that Kromitzki's affairs are in a deplorable state, and that he is threatened with legal prosecution.
In spite of all my disappointments, in spite of the consciousness that my hopes are vain, I still nourish in a corner of my heart the hope that the present state of affairs is only a halting-place on the way to love.
My other love affairs lasted a longer or shorter time, their memories were pleasant sometimes, a little sad at others, or distasteful as the case might be, but never absorbed my whole being.
My missive was intended to reconnoitre the position, sent in fact as a scout to find out how affairs were progressing, and partly, to learn what Aniela was thinking.
To infer from this that he is on the brink of ruin, would be jumping at conclusions; but I may fairly conjecture that his affairsare in a precarious state.
Besides we should not have been able to go, as Kromitzki's affairs must be dealt with at once.
I received a letter from my lawyer, who wants to see me about theaffairs of the succession; these are mere formalities, and they could arrange things without me, did I feel disinclined to move.
His affairs are not in such a desperate state as you think, aunty.
You are not in the least flighty, and would never sacrifice important affairs for mere sentimentality.
People occupied with every-day affairs forget or do not wish to remember that they are love's servants.
In fact, formerly, when my aunt spoke of Kromitzki's affairs in a doubting spirit, it had always caused me some uneasiness.
As far as I can judge, you were both not as calm as one ought to be in treating affairs of that kind.
It was in the midst of affairs thus disarranged that on a morning three days before the rising of Parliament the Royal Council met, and awaited with official calm the advent of its titular head.
In the conduct of humanaffairs association plays a very curious part.
He didn't like the idea of being succeeded, hated to think of a time when affairs would have to go on without him.
In tentative motherings of her gigantic babe, Charlotte had forgotten all about money and business affairs when once more the practical man in him came out of childish disguise to make an inquiry.
The King when he met her in the corridor was, as we have said, preoccupied with affairs of State.
Thus I am left with more leisure and energy to devote to the consideration of policy, and affairs in general.
There came the village lawyer, when he gained a cause, or won a large fee, or had been paid a long bill, to indulge in his pint of sherry, and gossiped as he drank it of all the affairs of his clients.
He would gladly have kept me on longer, it said, but the work was interrupted by private affairs of my own elsewhere.
We'd each our own affairs to take our time; apart from the machine, there was that thumbnail for the pipe I wanted to finish, and the evenings came out all too short.
Just as of old he was now--quick and determined, taking an interest in his affairs once more, and sober as water.
This altered the whole aspect ofaffairs in a moment.
Before accompanying the lawyer and his registering clerk to the Marquis d'Espard's house, it may be as well to glance at the home and the private affairs of this father of sons whom his wife's petition represented to be a madman.
Though I have missed the senatorship, they will win it nobly by devoting themselves to the affairs of the country, and doing such service as is not soon forgotten.
Nowadays gentlemen are for the most part obliged to manage their affairs themselves.
He superintends all civil affairs in the tribe; attends the national council, of which he is a member; assents to all conveyances of land, and is consulted on every subject of importance.
Chiefs review the national affairs of the year past; agree upon the best plan to be pursued through the next year, and attend to all internal regulations.
Newsletters and correspondence of the time are all filled with the details of the exploit, for the moment the gravest affairs of state sunk into insignificance before the interest in this most audacious venture.
What affairs of state were then secretly discussed by this precocious statesman of nineteen and His British Majesty's ministers of the Cabal, we have no need to inquire here, nor would our inquiries produce much result were they made.
Without a safe, and with a dry goods box for a desk, we conducted financialaffairs in money and material to the extent of nearly half a million dollars.
We, as a nation, attended to our own business, and didn't interfere in the affairs of other nations; and thus were in no danger of getting into serious trouble with any one.
The time given for settlingaffairs and preparing to leave was less than a week, and accordingly there was much excitement and great sacrifices had to be made, which in many cases meant ruin and beggary.
When Miss Cromlein and Miss Maxwell retired about the same date, they were succeeded by Miss Gladwin and Miss Lounsbury, who have ably managed the affairs of the Red Cross at Sternberg.
He placed the columns of his paper at our disposal, and through them we enlightened the people of the true status of affairs in their own State.
My own National Red Cross officers in America, hurt and disgusted at the unjust form affairs were taking, in sympathy, advised the leaving of the field and returning home.
The affairs of the Red Cross in this field were most efficiently conducted and with great credit to Dr.
Blaine, and the Russian Charge d'Affairs at Washington, Mr. Alexander Gregor, and had ascertained that Russia would gladly receive any donations of relief that the people of America might send to her famine stricken people.
When we happened to mention this state ofaffairs to Colonel C.
Some of those barriers were quite tricky affairs to drive through in a big ambulance, and reminded me of a gymkhana!
He won't take any part in their affairs as long as they are conducted peaceably.
Something was badly askew in the general scheme of affairsto permit of such a thing, and they manifested their grief so loudly that Burrell, who knew nothing of Doret's intention, sought them out and tried to ascertain the cause of it.
His sternness offended Burrell, for the soldier was not the kind to discuss his affairs in this way, therefore he drew back scowling.
Letter from the Bishop of Nueva Segovia to the King I have no doubt that by other ways your Majesty [23] will learn of the affairs of Manila.
Another paper gives a history of affairs in Camboja, the relations of the Philippine colony with that country, and the failure of Dasmariñas's expedition thither.
After considering the state of affairs there, Don Luis will do whatever is most necessary for the service of God and your Majesty.
Affairs being in this condition, I sent aid to La Caldera, which was very necessary; and I wrote to the army, encouraging them to persevere in the service of your Majesty.
At this turn ofaffairs the soldiers, who had disembarked, retired to their ships without avenging his death.
Military Affairs in the Islands That the Phelippinas Islands are far distant from España and Peru, and in the midst of many enemies; and that they should be annually supplied with men and arms.
The present condition of affairs there is that Don Joan Ronquillo left the island, and it is now, in a state of pacification, for the natives acknowledged your Majesty's rule.
This letter is accompanied by a report of the conquest of Mindanao and of affairs there, and other papers.
At this time Don Luis Dasmariñas, having some knowledge of affairs in Camboxa, urged me to give him permission to go with some men at his own cost to begin the conversion of that kingdom, and its settlement by Spaniards.
I think that, until the affairs of this land are better established, say for six years, these four reals should not be collected; but your Majesty will provide according to the royal pleasure.
Meantime, three of the revolutionary vessels were seized by the Prussian squadron as pirates--an utterly unjustifiable interference with the domestic affairs of another State.
Meanwhile the affairs of Islam were directed by Jews, who obtained the offices of wizir, hagib, and khatib, reserved in another age to the most illustrious of the citizens.
He applied himself rigorously to the government of his territory, often spending the whole twenty-four hours in affairs of State.
He reigned long, and spent himself in affairs of government and in military enterprises, though he used every means to maintain peace.
In the plaza a crowd of countryfolk are collected, furiously discussing their affairs and pleading their cases in advance, after the manner of litigants all the world over.
We've been putting your late uncle's affairs in order.
The conversation which was mostly ministered amongst such as visited there related to public affairs and foreign countries, and not so much as in some other houses to private scandals and the tattle of the town.
Are the affairs of Dulness conducted, in some respects, by the same rules which obtain in the Commonwealth of Wit?
A portion of that speech, which ought never to be forgotten by the leaders of public affairs in England, was singularly full and powerful.
If their work is satisfactory, the demand for their services increases until in time their income from this source may be large enough to make it worth while to adjust their other affairs to their engagements at poultry shows.
Then she had muttered: "If you will not take precautions, other folk must, and the boy must be put where he can be properly looked after and kept from interfering with the affairs of others.
But Mr. Trevisa was not the man to endure such a condition of affairs without a protest and an effort to remedy it.
This miserable condition of affairs has reached its climax, and there has been a turn.
Others were apparently too much taken up with their own affairs to take notice of them.
I think it would he better for you, gentlemen, to come some of you aboard presently, to settle the affairs of your town.
As the plague now rages violently here, no one thinks of business or the affairs of this world; but each individual anticipates that he will be next called away.
And touching the private affairs intreated upon betwixt her Ma'tie and the Emperour, I had letters from him to satisfie her Highnesse therein.
The kabyls seem to be wholly engaged in burying their dead, in arranging the affairsof their respective families, in dividing the property inherited by them, and in administering consolation to the sick.
He goes to Jarnouillard's,' that means that hisaffairs are in bad shape, that he needs money!
The men who then conducted affairs had almost all been born since the Revolution, or were children at the time.
It was supposed, of course, that if we did not meddle in the affairs of the Old World nations, they would not interfere in affairs over here.
Long Parliament took charge of the management of affairs in this country, and although much of it went back to the King at the Restoration in 1660, Parliament still continued to legislate for the colonies in a few matters.
Progress was not confined toaffairs within our boundary.
The appearance of the Antislavery or Liberty party marks the beginning in national affairs of an antislavery movement which had long been going on in the states.
This was the period of the Civil War in England, of the Commonwealth, of the rule of Cromwell and the Puritans; and affairs in New England were left to take care of themselves.
For some years the settlers managed their own affairs in their own way.
A few leading officials of the Dutch Company, disgusted at the way its affairs were managed, formed a new company under the lead of William Usselinx.
Under them in America were the royal and proprietary governors, who with the local colonial legislatures managed the affairsof the colonies.
Footnote 2: The reception of that officer well illustrates the gross ignorance of America and American affairs which then existed in England.
Every day brought the lady her report of the state of affairs in the City, written always in the same words: "No news of the ship.
I could not help feeling impatience at the turn that affairs had taken.
The marriage ceremony is to be strictly private, and you are so to arrange our affairs that, immediately afterward, we leave England for any foreign place which you prefer.
His arm then whirling, from the starry Heav'n He flung her down, to vex th' affairs of men.
How these affairs may end, we know not yet; Nor how, or well or ill, we may return.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
