"Inexpedience" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chosen, and Angela was in despair. She was ready to write to the Pursuivant, to the Bishop of Albertstown, to the Lord Chancellor, with an exposition of the wicked injustice and hardness of heart of lawyers, and the inexpedience of taking the poor child from her earliest motherly friend, expressly chosen by her father. All Bernard's common sense and Magdalen's soothing were needed to make her hold her peace, when correspondence made it plain that the guardianship being assumed by the uncles, ...
— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... inexpedience of personalities," said Dr. May, "and in good time enter the evening post.—Why! how now, Mr. May, are ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... position she did not think them a duty. Retirement seemed to befit the widowhood, which she felt so entirely that when Miss Wells once drove her into disclaiming all possibility of marrying, she called it 'marrying again.' When Miss Wells urged the inexpedience of absolute seclusion, she said she would continue to make morning calls, and she hoped in time to have friends of her own to stay with her; she might ask the Raymonds, or some of the quiet, clerical families (the real ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge |
