"Favor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Rastignac had come to spend a few days with his family. He had spoken of Lucien in terms that set Paris gossip circulating in Angouleme, till at last it reached the journalist's mother and sister. Eve went to Mme. de Rastignac, asked the favor of an interview with her son, spoke of all her fears, and asked him for the truth. In a moment Eve heard of her brother's connection with the actress Coralie, of his duel with Michel Chrestien, arising out of his own treacherous behavior to Daniel d'Arthez; ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... walking, but Lone Wolf might as well believe that it did. If he thought his prisoner was too lame to do much in the way of locomotion, his watchfulness would be certain to become quite lax, all of which would be a great point in favor of ...
— Through Apache Lands • R. H. Jayne
... other. "I'm told that he's likely to be in a seaport town, and if you'll be on the look-out I'll take it as a favor." ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... his lips, as Aramis would have done. "In that case," he said, "I may hope, that, notwithstanding what has happened, our good understanding will remain undisturbed, and that you will kindly confer the favor upon me of believing in ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... this picture has come to our country, as yet so barren of great works, and pray that the noble school of art of which this is so admirable an exponent, may find favor, not only with our painters, but with those who call themselves connoisseurs, in preference to unmeaning works of microscopic finish, or slick examples of boudoir ...
— The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art Journal • Various
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