Had my circumstances permitted me , I should have answered these words by an immediate journey to Paris ; but I was obliged to act act by the agency of a friend , who was upon the spot , and present present at the opening of the will .

I seldom lose my temper ; much more seldom indulge in dangerous indignation at wrongs and outrages ; but I must be permitted to be rash here and declare declare , that I consider the sudden and violent abrogation abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery , by the new Constitution , as a -- premature act act ; inasmuch as I had counted upon a life-lease of the profits , whereas I only received receive those of a few short years .

Before reaching her he stopped stop on the grass and went through the form of feeling feel for something , possibly forgotten , in the light overcoat he carried carry on his arm ; yet the essence of the act act was no more than the impulse impulse to gain time .

The man was small and rather old , so that the brutality of the act act was thus accentuated .