You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.
To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew, determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.
That part of his scheme was crude and brutal--it lacked the refinement of torture that had marked the master strokes of the Paulvitch of old, when he had worked with that virtuoso of villainy, Nikolas Rokoff--but it at least assured Paulvitch of immunity from responsibility, placing that upon the ape, who would thus also be punished for his
refusal longer to support the Russian.
Well--I have it on pretty good authority--in fact, on old Catherine's herself--that the family reduced Countess Olenska's allowance considerably when she definitely refused to go back to her husband; and as, by this
refusal, she also forfeits the money settled on her when she married--which Olenski was ready to make over to her if she returned--why, what the devil do YOU mean, my dear boy, by asking me what I mean?
The natural inference was, that they belonged to the two tribes of Sioux which had been expected by the great war party, and that they had been incited to hostility by the two chiefs who had been enraged by the
refusal and the menace of Mr.
At such times as this, apprehending the grounds of her
refusal to be her modest sense of incompetence in matters social and polite, he would say that she was wonderfully well-informed and versatile--which was certainly true, her natural quickness, and her admiration for him, having led her to pick up his vocabulary, his accent, and fragments of his knowledge, to a surprising extent.
Hearing of your
refusal to obey her she looked upon it as a declaration of war, and as she considers you a man of superior talent, and consequently dangerous, she desired me to make sure of you; that is the reason of your being shut up in the Bastile.
He inquired the reason for their
refusal, seeing that they were in nearly as starving a situation as his own people.
That evening, proud of Dolokhov's proposal, her
refusal, and her explanation with Nicholas, Sonya twirled about before she left home so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was transparently radiant with impulsive joy.
A lack of information among the population is a reason for parents'
refusal from vaccination of their children, representatives of the Ministry of Health and the State Commission for Religious Affairs told a press conference in Bishkek on March 12.
A total of 24,948 missed children, including 314
refusal cases, were reported from Fata.
Supreme Court rules next year on a religious
refusal case that started in 2012 at a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado, its decision could have reverberations in Texas.
