I had been told, while I had been in Atlanta, that while many white people were going to be present to hear me
speak, simply out of curiosity, and that others who would be present would be in full sympathy with me, there was a still larger element of the audience which would consist of those who were going to be present for the purpose of hearing me make a fool of myself, or, at least, of hearing me say some foolish thing so that they could say to the officials who had invited me to
speak, "I told you so!"
On this, when Paris had spoken and taken his seat, Priam of the race of Dardanus, peer of gods in council, rose and with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus: "Hear me, Trojans, Dardanians, and allies, that I may speak even as I am minded.
Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said.
Her indignation would have been still stronger than it was, had she not witnessed that embarrassment which seemed to
speak a consciousness of his own misconduct, and prevented her from believing him so unprincipled as to have been sporting with the affections of her sister from the first, without any design that would bear investigation.
then, don't speak it, don't speak it," she eagerly cried.
Knightley, and, I am afraid, gave you pain.But if you have any wish to speak openly to me as a friend, or to ask my opinion of any thing that you may have in contemplationas a friend, indeed, you may command me.I will hear whatever you like.
As soon as she could speak she put the inevitable question.
"Don't try to speak yet," she said, in softer and gentler tones.
She had let Norah go and speak those words of tender remonstrance, which she should first have spoken herself.
You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for me!"
"You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay, that I thank you with all my heart, and will open all my heart--or nearly so.
So strange was the way in which he faded into silence, and so strange his fixed look when he had ceased to speak, that Darnay felt his own hand turn cold in the hand that slowly released and dropped it.