But Marie Antoinette was ignorant of his character, and believed De Vermond's assurance that the appointment of so high an ecclesiastic would propitiate the clergy, whose opposition, as many of her letters prove, she thought specially formidable, and for whose support she knew her husband to be nervously anxious.

Thanking him for the assurance of his friendship, she says: "Believe me, my dear brother, we shall always be worthy of it.

And every lesson learnt, anew, The vain assurance lends That now I know, and now can do, And now should see thy ends.

" With this hopeful assurance closes Tennyson's most noble and beautiful poem.

Still the castle held out, and more urgent petitions to Emmanuel, carried by Captain Credence, brought at last the assurance that he would come presently to the relief of the town.

" Frances gave the desired assurance.

He had, no doubt, passed salutary laws; but what assurance was there that he would not break them?

Yet the charge is constantly reiterated in the face of facts,reiterated with undoubting assurance and a certain complacency which seems to say, "Thank God!

In the midst of the negations and convulsive movements of his day his spirit is always serene, and his thought, while at times dreamily melancholy, is conserving and full of faith's highest assurance.

In everything he wrote the Ruskinian spirit comes strongly out, colored with an amiable egotism and enforced by great assurance of conviction.

Aware that their own privileges would infallibly fall with the throne, they rejected the three bills of the Commons, voted a personal treaty without any previous conditions, and received from the common council an assurance that, if the king were suffered to come to London, the city would guarantee both the royal person and the two houses from insult and danger.

I must have that assurance, for I shall be hundreds of pounds out of pocket

" "I cannot do that, sir," says I, "without an assurance that Mrs. Godwin's estate will bear this charge.

"You will have the sole use of these chambers during your stay," says Don Lopez, "and for your better assurance you can draw the ladder up after you on retiring for the night.

Pilate sent back the pledge to his wife, as an assurance of his intention to keep his promise.

"Yes." "You speak with great assurance.

Gentlemen, I pray you to make acceptable to the House the assurance of my profound gratitude for their confidence, and to accept yourselves my thanks for the friendly terms in which you have communicated to me their decision.

"With saucy assurance they at once began climbing the tree, expecting to be able to put their long paws into that big hole and draw out the combs.

In recommending to the National Legislature this resort to additional taxes I feel great satisfaction in the assurance that our constituents, who have already displayed so much zeal and firmness in the cause of their country, will cheerfully give any other proof of their patriotism which it calls for.

Instead of showing any marks of contrition or dejection, he rather infused more confidence and assurance into his looks.

What grey-haired man of the world has not at one time or another been amazed at the full-grown assurance of some bride of eighteen or nineteen summers?

If the political power of the Negro was a nullity because of his ignorance and lack of leadership, why were they not content to leave it so, with the pleasing assurance that if it ever became effective, it would be because the Negroes had grown fit for its exercise?

Prof. Stuart comforts us with the assurance that "Christianity will ultimately certainly destroy slavery."

On the other side, the Southern States are not to be restrained from importing fresh supplies of wretched Africans, at once to increase the danger of attack, and the difficulty of defence; nay, they are to be encouraged to it, by an assurance of having their votes in the National Government increased in proportion; and are, at the same time, to have their exports and their slaves exempt from all contributions for the public service.

He marveled at her assurance and the resumption of the little airs of proprietorship to which he had been accustomed before the visit to Westport.