She wondered what the business could be, and felt relieved to know that his visit would have at least some assigned pretext; but already her heart beat with apprehensive perturbation at the thought of his presence in their household.
" said the inexorable, "this was a mere pretext to run away; he was not hot, with the stove close at his back; how could I suffer, thoroughly screened by his person?
Each mind was being reared in slavery; but, to prevent reflection from dwelling on this fact, every pretext for physical recreation was seized and made the most of.
Every day, on this mere pretext of a motive, he gave punctual attendance; Madame always received him with the same empressement, the same sunshine for himself, the same admirably counterfeited air of concern for her child.
" "Where there are sixty pupils," said I; for I knew the number, and with my usual base habit of cowardice, I shrank into my sloth like a snail into its shell, and alleged incapacity and impracticability as a pretext to escape action.
But when I came to think the matter over my conscience reproached me bitterly for having on any pretext allowed him to go out of my sight.
It was therefore resolved that the little band of settlers should remain together and not separate under any pretext whatever.
But Lucy would hear of no pretext for her remaining away in the evenings; she must always come from aunt Glegg's before dinner,—"else what shall I have of you?
Frank Hawley followed up his information by sending a clerk whom he could trust to Stone Court on a pretext of inquiring about hay, but really to gather all that could be learned about Raffles and his illness from Mrs.
" Fred had simply snatched up this pretext for speaking, because he could not say, "You are losing confoundedly, and are making everybody stare at you; you had better come away.
Dorothea was detained on the good pretext that Mr.
What if the acts he had reconciled himself to because they made him a stronger instrument of the divine glory, were to become the pretext of the scoffer, and a darkening of that glory?
Who would not, when there was the pretext of casting disgrace upon him, confound his whole life and the truths he had espoused, in one heap of obloquy?
Very few men could have been as filial and chivalrous as he was to the mother, aunt, and sister, whose dependence on him had in many ways shaped his life rather uneasily for himself; few men who feel the pressure of small needs are so nobly resolute not to dress up their inevitably self-interested desires in a pretext of better motives.
Foreign encroachments increased after 1860 by means of a series of treaties imposed on China on one pretext or another.
"The pretext was that they had evicted a trespasser.
" And off she went She informed the king she had never seen his daughter so content On the contrary, alwasy alone in the room, with ladies-in-waiting who didn't so much as look at her, the princess spent her days wistfully at the window She sat there leaning on the windowsill, and had she not thought to put a pillow under them, she would have got calluses on her elbows The window looked out on the forest, and all day long the princess saw nothing but treetops, clouds and, down below, the hunt
" Silver Nose set out for the washerwoman's, but when he was only halfway there, he said to himself, "Maybebut I shall see if this girl isn't emptying my house of everything I own, under the pretext of sending out laundry" He went to put the bag down and open it "I see you, I see you!
" "To England" "So am I We shall travel together" The youth noticed the man's eyes: one of them looked east, and the other west, so the boy realized this was the cross-eyed man he must avoid He found a pretext for stopping, then took another road He met another traveler sitting on a stone "Are you going to England?
" He stepped back on the betrothal on a pretext that his aunt had betrothed him to sombody else and he came to retrieve his sword.
