He would have been glad to see the Italians go to Tunis, but Count Corti ingenuously replied: 'You want to make us quarrel with France.
After all, I had not made a bad bargain; but I would have been glad not to have it on my hands just then, for the weather was fine, and it makes a man look very foolish to carry an umbrella under such circumstances.
I would have been glad, however, to know if she were in Paris, or if she had gone away again.
I would have been glad to be able to speak, and say that no reward could be more to me than the happiness of seeing them all alive, and of being allowed to live near them.
This pained me, and I would have been glad to think that I was mistaken; but it was evident that no matter what advances were made by me, I was avoided by all.
He would have been glad to have signalized it by some fête, but the seriousness and holiness of such a day would not permit of amusement, or even of any distraction.
He would have been glad to have asked some one whether he had any right to keep this money, or whether, on the contrary, he ought not also to return even what Simon had gained, since he had not given notice that he was cheating.
He would have been glad to have gone and asked for it, but he did not dare to do so, for misers are always ashamed of those actions which their avarice leads them to commit.
It would have been glad to tell the girl that there was a very real and a very growing inducement to remain at El Orobo Rancho.
He would have been glad to fly, too; but he could not leave Anthony Harding, and he was sure that the older man would prove unequal to any sustained flight on foot.
He would have been glad to tell her the truth; but he couldn't do that without betraying Billy.
I would have been glad to go down to the lodge and say "Good-morning" to my kind entertainers there, but for some reason or other it struck me that that neat little house was too much out of the way.
I would have been glad to gaze at myself in a full-length mirror, but there was no opportunity for the indulgence of such vanity; and before leaving the room I sat down for a moment to give a few thoughts to the situation.
As soon as I had spoken these words I would have been glad to recall them, but they seemed to make no impression whatever on her.
I would have been glad to hear a step stirring, or a cough even, or the gabble of servants at a distance.
He could not, however, have doubted that he was very nervous--and that he would have been glad of the companionship even of one of the Gylingden shopkeepers, through this infested bit of wood.
I would have been glad to go with her, but Madame Dumeillan and my mother persuaded me that it was my duty to remain with the guests who were still at table.
Ernest himself had no answer to make; and yet he would have been glad to have her go sometimes into the world, in order to acquire the habits of society and to avoid awkwardness if she should ever receive company.
There were many other things too which she did not know and which I would have been glad to conceal from her forever.
I confessed to myself that I would have been glad if Eugenie had had such quiet tastes.
He would have been glad to make a confidant of Mike, but the Irishman's obtuseness and inability to comprehend his tenderer sentiments, repulsed him, and drove him back upon himself.
He would not have murdered him, but he would have been glad to hear that he was dead.
If a vessel came along and saw our lights she would probably keep away from us, and I would have been glad to have a vessel come to us, even if she ran into us.
I would have been glad enough to stay there all day and make promises to those women; but my time was short, and I had to leave them to Captain Guy.
I would have been glad to follow Balloquet's example; but Madame Girie at once took his seat by my side and seemed disposed to remain there.
I would have been glad to obtain her friendship; her original character pleased me mightily; but I have failed to do it.
I would have been glad to vanish through a trapdoor, like stage demons, and take the risk of breaking a bone or two in my descent.
Marcy Gray was blessed with as much courage as most boys, but he would have been glad if he could have backed out of that car without being seen, and gone into another.
Marcy was not aware he had "stuck up" for the Stars and Bars, but it would not be safe to set the captain right, as he would have been glad to do, and besides this was the time to learn something.
Marcy mentally denounced these sympathetic and well-meaning rebels as so many nuisances, for they drew upon him attentions that he would have been glad to escape.
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