1 Ay, stare if you please; but it is nevertheless true.
2 I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased.
3 Even I, depressed in mind, and my spirits continually agitated by gloomy feelings, even I was pleased.
4 Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.
5 She seemed pleased and went into the garden for some roots and plants, which she placed in water, and then upon the fire.
6 My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a military career in a distant country, but Ernest never had your powers of application.
7 My change of manner surprised and pleased the magistrate; perhaps he thought that my former exclamation was a momentary return of delirium, and now he instantly resumed his former benevolence.
8 I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: "I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you."
9 But you are distant from me, and it is possible that you may dread and yet be pleased with this explanation; and in a probability of this being the case, I dare not any longer postpone writing what, during your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have never had the courage to begin.