The men of this party said and thought that what was wrong resulted chiefly from the Emperor's presence in the army with his military court and from the consequent presence there of an indefinite,
conditional, and unsteady fluctuation of relations, which is in place at court but harmful in an army; that a sovereign should reign but not command the army, and that the only way out of the position would be for the Emperor and his court to leave the army; that the mere presence of the Emperor paralyzed the action of fifty thousand men required to secure his personal safety, and that the worst commander in chief if independent would be better than the very best one trammeled by the presence and authority of the monarch.
Darcy chose to doubt it-- or to treat it as a merely
conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence-- in short anything or nothing.
By the time this had been again exchanged for a
conditional pardon (which allowed me to go about where I pleased in Australia, and to trade in my own name like any unconvicted merchant) our house-property had increased enormously, our land had been sold for public buildings, and we had shares in the famous Emancipist's Bank, which produced quite a little income of themselves.
Fanny was perfectly right in giving only a
conditional answer.
"But if he HAS purposely left a legacy of trouble and danger to his sister, by the means of her child, it must be a legacy made
conditional on his sister's being alive to feel the vexation of it."
'--Except that the son's inheriting is made
conditional on his marrying a girl, who at the date of the will, was a child of four or five years old, and who is now a marriageable young woman.
I don't know why I put it in the
conditional, however, for I never doubted that Frome would appear.
The Santa Clara, which was spoken of in the second place, Naumann declared himself to be dissatisfied with-- he could not, in conscience, engage to make a worthy picture of it; so about the Santa Clara the arrangement was
conditional.
I refuse to wait for you; I refuse to accept a
conditional engagement.
Newman had made two appointments with Nicholas: one for the next evening,
conditional on his success: and one the next night following, which was to be kept under all circumstances.
There is not between women that fund of at least
conditional loyalty which men may depend on in their dealings with each other.
While saying this, which his character as a gentleman of some little station, and his character as a father, equally demanded of him, he would not be so diplomatic as to conceal that the proposal remained in hopeful abeyance and under
conditional acceptance, and that he thanked Mr Sparkler for the compliment rendered to himself and to his family.