And he's taking it as if he had only a friendly interest.
If I had only known," she said, and sat numb and stunned.
Caught with promises to deliver thousands upon thousands of shares of Great Lakes, when Great Lakes could be had only of the mysterious cornerer, and at whatever price he might choose to ask!
Nay, I saw that for my very life I had only my friend the cutler and my own prudence to thank, seeing that these rogues would certainly have murdered me without scruple had they succeeded in finding the bulk of my money.
My opponent's habit of wild living suited ill with a prolonged bout, and as his strength and breath failed and he began to give ground I discerned I had only to wear him out to have him at my mercy.
And a church-clock at this moment striking Five, and reminding me that we had only half an hour in which to do all and reach the horses, I was the more inclined to risk something.
Perhaps it was better for us so--better that we had only a moment left to look back before the turn in the road hid the last of Combe-Raven from our view.
At Aldborough, Mr. Noel, I had only my own opinion to support me," she remarked.
He had only time, during Mr. Loscombe's momentary absence, to satisfy his curiosity by looking at the beginning of the document and at the end.
And, although he had only caught a glimpse of him, it burst upon his mind, at the same time, that this traveler was the old Zingari whose words he had overheard in the market place of Nijni-Novgorod.
On the Obi, after his horse had been struck by a bullet, he had only by a miracle escaped from the horsemen who were pursuing him.
As to Michael, he retained his tarantass, which was not much the worse for its journey across the Urals; and he had only to harness three good horses to it to take him swiftly over the road to Irkutsk.
If by ill luck the Maories, more cunning than the fugitives, had only pretended to retreat; if they were not really duped by the volcanic phenomenon, this was the spot where their presence would be betrayed.
As for Robert, he had only caresses to bestow, and these he lavished on his friend, not forgetting to give a share to Thaouka.
The tufts of bush and the branches made me a ladder, and I found a kind of grotto already hollowed out in the rock under this hut; I had only to bore some feet in soft earth, and here I am.
He had only to do with the southern part of Australia--viz.
The memory of that supper makes me hungry now; the sight of it then, when I had only a students' boarding-house dinner behind me, was delicate torment.
But Mr. Shimerda had not been rich and selfish: he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer.
I had only to close my eyes to hear the rumbling of the wagons in the dark, and to be again overcome by that obliterating strangeness.
An open grave was there; I had only a slight partition of earth to displace, and soon I rolled into the cavity.
At Nana's side the old gentleman refused every dish offered him; he had only taken a spoonful of soup, and he now sat in front of his empty plate, gazing silently about.
After all, he had only to wait for the woman when she left the house.
He had only been at the house once before, and he did not know it at all.
If I had only known I might have been ready with some better plan.
You talk as if young women were tied up to be chosen, like poultry at market; as if I had only to ask and everybody would have me," said the Vicar, not caring to specify.
He had only not to refuse things, not to show jealousy, not to be quarrelsome or take offense, all of which from his characteristic good nature he never did.
Stiva I had only a glimpse of, and he cannot tell one about the children.
He had only two up when Laddie came racing down the Big Hill bareback, calling for him to stop.
If I had only myself to consider, I would make her my friend, because I'm seasoned in the ways of the world, and she could influence me only as I chose to allow her.
He and May were so big they had ten; but I had only two, and mine were not very long.
Instead of curly and comely locks, grizzled indeed, but plentiful, he had only a few lank white hairs scattered and flattened upon his forehead.
Ah, if I had only had a mother, how different I might have been!
Then he caught her up in his arms, and kissed her so that I heard him; and if I had onlybrought my gun, I would have tried to shoot him.
He had only a single trooper with him, a man not of the militia but of the King's army, whom Jeremy had brought from Exeter.
He had only to give the signal and Cabinets were overthrown.
The English in particular strenuously opposed his scheme; he had only to put in an appearance in England to rally all suffrages.
To overcome the unanimous opposition he met with, he had only to show himself.
At first, the sullen anger of defeat, the sense of outrage, had only smouldered, but the more he brooded, the fiercer flamed his rage.
I added that good champagne hurt nobody, and Lupin told me he had only got it from a traveller as a favour, as that particular brand had been entirely bought up by a West-End club.
I told her I had only a couple of glasses of it, having kept myself entirely to port.
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