Sublime

(My teacher, Lee Ray, was one of his students.)

Kittson became his close friend, mentor, and longtime business associate. Jim would name his firstborn son James Norman in the older man’s honor.

but he felt that it was an occasion for a friendly hint as to conduct, and that before giving his signature he must give a rather strong admonition. Accordingly, he took the paper and lowered his spectacles, measured the space at his command, reached his pen and examined it, dipped it in the ink and examined it again, then pushed the paper a little

D’instinct, ils déplaisent à Édouard. Il respecte Semionov comme il respecte Jean-Édern Hallier, parce que ce sont des chefs de gang, mais il méprise leurs gangs. Lui, Édouard, on ne l’achète pas, on ne le domestique pas. Il est un bandit de grand chemin qui veut bien, si leurs routes se croisent, frayer avec le chef, d’égal à égal, mais ne se mêle

churlishness

His ability to rise above defeat and create friendships with previous opponents was never shared by Chase, who was unable to forgive those who crossed him.

The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.

Max was perhaps the least subtle person I had ever met.

Dazedly Merritt realized her younger brother, once a baby she’d helped to dress and bathe, and later a toddler she’d taught how to eat pudding with a spoon, had become a man she could rely on.