By what means Miss Grant had brought this round I could never guess; I am sure, at least, she dared not to appear openly in the affair, for her papa was compromised in it pretty deep.
But though I knew what breed she was of, and that was a breed of thieves, I could never look in Catriona's face and disbelieve her.
I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long a patience with me.
He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted.
It would please and benefit me to have five thousand pounds; it would torment and oppress me to have twenty thousand; which, moreover, could never be mine in justice, though it might in law.
This knight would have time to eat a bushel of salt before he could defend you from me; I think I could never meet a knight from whom I should not win you.
Thou didst never speak such a lie as that, for He could never give me so good a lord again.
But he felt no fear of wounds upon his hands or feet; he preferred to maim himself rather than to fall from the bridge and be plunged in the water from which he could never escape.
If he has no proof or evidence he will be held in contempt, for Kay is so mean and obstinate, so given to mockery, and so annoying, that he could never succeed in convincing him.
But I don't know why I should wish you to marry; I could never do without you.
The evening exceeded even Violet's anticipations, though her one former ball had been such as could never be equalled.
She never ceased reminding him that he was under a debt of gratitude to her which he could never repay.
Her hair was elaborately dressed, with a neat curl in the middle of the forehead: it was very black, shiny and hard, and it looked as though it could never be in the least disarranged.
Why, one that rode to's execution, man, Could never go so slow.
He's helped me to knowledge I could never ha' got by myself.
She didn't know how it would be, but it was quite plain the old Squire could never be told anything about it, for Hetty was ready to faint with awe and fright if she came across him at the Chase.
It seems as if, when you are gone, I could never joy in anything any more.
Love, he thought, could never be anything to him but a living memory--a limb lopped off, but not gone from consciousness.
And I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
At that moment I felt as if I could never agree to his wishes, and I told him that in ten days I would let him know of our resolution, whatever it was.
There are some positions in life to which I could never be reconciled.
That would be too great a bliss, but I could never make up my mind to it; say no more about it.
I shall love him to my latest breath, and I never will deny him, and I love you because you are his child, and I could never be ashamed of him before you.
If Jean were a really superior man, now that he could never want he might prove it.
I could never look at you, nor kiss you, do you understand?
Whether this course would have offered his best chance he never knew; it was one of the points in practical education which most needed a clear understanding, and he could never reach it.
As education -- of a certain sort -- the story had probably a certain value, though he could never see it.
Luckily, on evidence which I could never understand, Dominic detected something suspicious.
How he managed to force his voice through that shining barrier I could never understand.
Silvo, the younger, declared that he could never go on to Utah; that he and his double bass had reached their ultimate destination.
If he were to buy a silk hat that was the twin of Ottenburg's, it would be shaggy in a week, and he could never carry it as Fred held his.
But he could never be long with her without trying to find a reason for what she was doing, and as she replaced his first edition of La Bruyere and turned away from the bookcases, he began to ask himself what she had been driving at.
He knew she had accepted without afterthought: he could never be a factor in her calculations, and there was a surprise, a refreshment almost, in the spontaneity of her consent.
He asked me to hold him up in bed while he wrote himself, and I said he could never, never do such a thing.
But her father never liked me, and he placed restrictions upon the fortune he left her so that it could never come to me.
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