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...uld have been as glad to frighten Mrs. Saltram as to think I might by some diplomacy restore the Pudneys to a quieter vigilance. “It’s best you should...

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...vate office behind me I thought to myself: “H’m. A lot of lies. Commercial diplomacy. That’s the sort of thing a man coming from sea has got to expect...

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...urprise depicted on my countenance. For you must know that in this home of diplomacy the very servants have a reserved and mysterious air. He went on ... ...the young man who cultivates my mother’s society, and who no doubt studies diplomacy with her from three o’clock to five. Diplomacy must be a fine sub... ...t Sassari. If Ferdinand VII. were to die, Macumer would probably go in for diplomacy, and the Court of T urin would make him ambassador. Though young,...

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...endom, that is to say the forty-three years of military preparation and of diplomacy by threats that culmi- nated in the ultimatum to Serbia, the inva... ...rhaps be able to enquire if there was a big German army in 1914, if German diplomacy was aggressive from 1875 onward, if Belgium was invaded unrighteo...

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... to the first families in France when quartered there, requires efforts of diplomacy which Prince T alleyrand would gladly have mastered to use at a c... ...ere are men for whose sake young girls can carry out such masterstrokes of diplomacy, while, for the most part, like Albert Savaron, they know it not....

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... the looked-for, the planned- for and intrigued-for; the object of so much diplomacy, such delicate manoeuvring; the pivot upon which all plans were t... ...o keep you company—to—to do your cooking for you?” But Condy, ignoring her diplomacy and thinking only of possible stories, blundered off upon another...

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...nder or slip round quietly while they look the other way.” “Ah! you define diplomacy,” murmured d’Alcacer. “A little of it here would do no harm. But ... ...trigues of individuals—you ought to know how that sort of thing works. His diplomacy made use of all that. The first thing to do was not to liber- ate... ... was hatred that had turned Daman into a self-made outcast, till Belarab’s diplomacy had drawn him out from some obscure and uneasy retreat. In a few ... ...Jorgenson, of course, had met it with a profound silence. His task was not diplomacy but the care of stores. After the effort of connected mental proc... ...cue not so ill as he looked. “He’s making the most of it. It’s a matter of diplomacy,” she thought. She thought this without irony, bitterness, or dis...

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...lie loiters and languishes. Or is there not the great dim Deep of European Diplomacy; where your Calonnes, your Breteuils are beginning to hover, diml... ...e what the matter was. (Moniteur, Seance du 9 Aout 1790.) A matter of mere diplomacy it proved; the Austrian Kaiser, in haste to get to Belgium, had b... ...s undone? The poor Constituent Assembly might act with what deli- cacy and diplomacy it would; declare that it abjured med- dling with its neighbours,...

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...ts, must needs buy two of the worst, and that meant eight hours’ laborious diplomacy and untold tobacco. But it was all pure delight–the wandering roa... ...he kiltas, and in the kiltas lay eight months of 229 Rudyard Kipling good diplomacy . There was no means of communicating with the boy, but he could ... ...two of Court Persian, which is the language of authorized and unauthorized diplomacy. ‘Mister Rajah Sahib has just about put his foot in the holes. He...

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...entralize and concentrate, and produce results. Two or three more years of diplomacy—with her beside him!—and then their real life would begin: study,... ...a tactician you are! Y ou make me feel that I hardly know the rudiments of diplomacy,” Darrow smiled at her, aban- 142 The Reef doning himself to a p... ...“I’m afraid I think nothing short of my own happiness is worth wasting any diplomacy on!” “That’s why I mean to resign from the service of my coun- tr...

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...s, which must have been a great comfort to him, as no one else had; and in diplomacy, on a small scale, in his own family arrangements, he considered ... ...It might divert the dear girl’s mind. This, by the way, was another bit of diplomacy. Miss Lavinia was introduced to her future governess, and both th... ...able arrangements was attributable, not to the Miss Crumptons, but his own diplomacy. He, however, consoles himself, like some other small diplomatist...

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... his vices, and his weaknesses, and the wit to seize the happy moment. Ask diplomacy if its greatest tri- umphs are not those of craft over force? If ... ...odeste, and throw over the duchess, La Briere, and the duke. A graduate of diplomacy could hardly remain stuck in the position in which he found himse... ...chess had made him no empty threat. 230 Modeste Mignon That apprentice in diplomacy became aware that his science was not sufficient for a struggle o...

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...der to the first two, and she made up her mind to display all her feminine diplomacy. All this, she said to herself, will be over and done with before...

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...nds she had bound up, and whom she flattered, pronounced her as capable in diplomacy as the wife of the Russian ambassador to London. The Marquise had...

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...to find the Angel Gabriel in an Abbe loaded with all the iniquities of the diplomacy and counter-diplomacy of two kings? I am an agent between Ferdina...

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...ainly without passions and without vices. If he was a spy he be- longed to diplomacy, and did such work from a pure love of art. He conceived, the oth... ... de Marsay, reflectively, “are the three greatest men, the wisest heads in diplomacy, war, and government, that I have ever known. If Napoleon had fra...

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...ous historical names which we have just heard applied to them. Mr. Brock’s diplomacy was, as we have stated, quite suc- cessful; for, when the parson’... ...conducts her negotiations, as I must honestly own, with a pretty notion of diplomacy.” * * * THIS IS THE ONLY PA RT of the reverend gentleman’...

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...so generally illiterate. Not from national archives, or state papers, when diplomacy was so rare, when so large a proportion of its simple transaction... ... nothing short of a general acquaintance with the history, statistics, and diplomacy of the two periods, can lay a ground for the solid adjudication o...

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...s itself by openly employing such a man, whose real vocation is for police diplomacy. He is fitted to deal with the political filibusters of other cab... ...obby- ists where the opinions of the Bourse and the Bank, the se- crets of diplomacy, and the policy necessitated by the state of affairs in Europe we...

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... to it, and, of those, two are ducal.” The letter was a piece of that easy diplomacy which comes from habit. The “of those, two are ducal,” was master... ...as well. 161 George Meredith Emilia came forward with a face like sunset. Diplomacy, under the form of Wilfrid Pole, kicked its heels behind, and sai... ...lovers, kissed under the plea of friend- ship. CHAPTER XXIII ALL WILFRID’S DIPLOMACY was now brought into play to baffle Mr. Pericles, inspire Emilia ... ... that until she had named the engagement, none had virtually existed which diplomacy, aided by time and accident, might not have stopped. “You must be... ...m—a whim.” The divided man saw himself whole, if not happy in the ranks of Diplomacy, with a resolute, frank, faithful woman (a lady of title) loving ... ... it, with your name in full.” But even in the red heat of passion his born diplomacy withheld his own signature. It was not difficult to override Brai...