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...n’s ill-humour; for it appeared 26 The Master of Ballantrae the visitor refused to name himself except to me, a sore af- front to the major-domo’s co... ... boat drawing away, and the lugger lying with her foresail backed awaiting it. THE GAP MADE in our money was a sore embarrassment, and, among other co... ...n, I have ever shunned their company. Not only do I see no cause to regret this diffidence in myself, but have invariably remarked the most unhappy co... ...Henry – and considering the freetraders, far safer than myself. Not but what he had a trouble of his own; and this, as it brought about the gravest co... ...with one whom I will sup- port at any possible cost to me or mine. As for the errand upon which you came to him, you must deliver yourself from the co... ...ly repeated: “And over his banes when they are bare The wind sall blaw for evermair!” I have said there was no music in the man. His strains had no lo...

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...ertainly unwise to admit any sort of responsibility for our actions, whose consequences we are never able to fore- see,” remarked Marlow by way of ass... ...es we are never able to fore- see,” remarked Marlow by way of assent. “The consequence of his action was that I got a ship,” said the other. “That cou... ...dmit it was something like telling a man that you would like a bath and in consequence being instantly knocked overboard to sink or swim with your clo... .... Poets not being generally foresighted in practical affairs, no vision of consequences would restrain him. Y es. The Fynes were excellent people, but... ...excel- lent mother (of the strict governess type), she was as guileless of consequences as any determinist philosopher ever was. As to honour—you know... ... merest starting-point becomes a coign of vantage, and then by a series of logically deducted verisimilitudes one arrives at truth—or very near the tr... ...if somewhat ill-na- tured practical joke. “Oh hang it,” he exclaimed—in no logical connection with what he had been relating to me. Nevertheless the e...

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..., and with this spectacle before him, and contemplating these immeasurable consequences consciously for the last time that could allow him a retreat,—... ...escent, collaterally, or otherwise, with the six first, it would be a more logical distribution to com- bine them according to the fortunes of the sta... ...tem natos, men born to be slaves.” 72 The Cæsars Roman descent.* And the consequences were suitable. Scarcely a family has come down to our knowledg... ...h a condition has never existed before or since that era of the world. The consequences to Rome were—that the reasoning and disputatious part of her p... ...ul state of doubt in Atheism; amongst the thoughtless and irreflective the consequences were chiefly felt in their morals, which were thus sapped in t... ...act which conferred any authority, into the channels of court favor—and by consequence into a mercenary dis- posal. Each successive emperor had been t...

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... objects not ap- pearing and objects not existing are governed by the same logical construction.* Such being, at that time, the usage of mail-coaches,... ...rs. The summer assizes, he reminded me, were now going on at Lancaster: in consequence of which for three nights and three days he had not lain down o... ... least it occupied the severe exertions of two judges in its despatch. The consequence of this was that every horse available for such a service, alon... ...ed to the windings of the shore by towing-ropes of History. Facts, and the consequences of facts, draw the writer back to the falconer’s lure from the... ..., in what strength the fairies mustered at Domrémy, and, by a satisfactory consequence, how thinly sown with men and women must have been that region ... ...emar of Marie de France, the knight passes on to a series of adventures in consequence of his meeting with the white fawn. I owe this note to the kind...

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...ts, and don’t make very much of them, and put them away; and you see their consequences in after life in the weakly-conceived villas and silly suburbs... ...nts, no doubt, a cake of this offensive and aggressive commodity. The zoo- logical garden flaunts a placard, “Zoo, two cents pay,” and the grocer’s pi... ...ch of the urban railway uphill to the town hall door, and on into the zoo- logical gardens. This was only the beginning of a period of enterprise in t...

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...part. “No, no,” said Fernand, restraining him, “stay! It is of very little consequence to me at the end of the matter whether you have any angry feeli... ...t yet it seems to me a shocking thing that a mere joke should lead to such consequences.” “But who perpetrated that joke, let me ask? neither you nor ... ...you neglected to obtain informa- tion on that point? Of course it is of no consequence,” he added, with a withering smile. “Sire, it was impossible to... ...you well fed?” said the inspector. “I believe so; I don’t know; it’s of no consequence. What matters really, not only to me, but to officers of justic... ...ia, since their first acquaintance, had been on all points so rational and logical, so wonderfully sagacious, in fact, that he could not understand ho... ...h, enough!” replied Caderousse; “say no more about it; I will take all the consequences upon myself.” And he began his story. The Count of Monte Cris... ...ent.” “It is possible,” said Morcerf; “my father has in his study a genea- logical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made com- mentari... ...andfather, who is little better than a corpse.” “I see that you are right, logically speaking,” said Maximilian; “but the gentle voice which usually h...

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...ls he has lived among, is a animal. And,’ said Mr Willet, arriving at his logical conclusion, ‘is to be treated accordingly.’ ‘Willet,’ said Solomon ... ...pres ence, immediately after your interview, and, as of course I know, in consequence of it, forbade me the house, and, with circumstances of indigni... ...f yourself in the mean time, for both our sakes. You are a person of great consequence to me, Ned—of vast consequence indeed. God bless you!’ With the... ... him that if his son and heir had been seriously damaged in a scuffle, the consequences would assuredly have been expensive and inconvenient, and migh... ...ok advantage of this genial weather to smoke his pipe in the porch, and in consequence of this prudent management, he was fully prepared, when the gla... ...Mr Tappertit, who seemed to expect no reply, and to hold it as a necessary consequence of his eloquence that his hearer should be utterly stunned, dum...

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... prime of life, Mabel had met him with a steadiness that may have been the consequence of having braced 17 James Fenimore Cooper her nerves for the i... ...g the bank, at an equally graduated pace; and directly abreast of them. In consequence of the distance between the bushes planted by the fugitives and... ...of the woods is keenly alive, to render his approach slow and cautious. In consequence of the delay that proceeded from these combined causes, the two... ...ho is in the same corps with yourself, will have the effect to lessen your consequence in the regiment?” “That’s just been my weakness through life, M... ...ness through life, Major Duncan; for I’ve always married without regard to consequences. Ev- ery man has his besetting sin, and matrimony, I fear, is ... ...thfinder, that there are such things in the world as traitors?” put in Cap logically. “I never knew an honest-minded Mingo,—one that you could put fai... ... escape the bark canoe of an Indian?” “Ah, my pretty Mabel, love is seldom logical, and its fears and misgivings are apt to warp the faculties. I only...

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...ey had dressed in great haste and agitation, and that their clothes had become mixed together. The identification of men by their dress, was rendered ... ... to offer a friendly remonstrance—not bearing on this particular point—to the designers and engravers of the pic- tures in those publications. Have th... ...n his speech or car- riage; but he was stiff with gin in both particulars. Mr. T estator was in a dreadful state, for (according to his making out of ... ... Reams—of forms illegibly printed on whity-brown pa- per were filled up about the Bottle, and it was the subject of more stamping and sanding than I h... ...bout four o’clock in the morning, when he had got out at Arras, and had been received by two shovel-hats in wait- ing at the station, who presented an... ...e intolerable twitches in our legs, rendering us aggressive and malicious with those members; or to be troubled with a similar uneasiness in our elbow... ... to have a soul, so that when a hatchet is irreparably broken, they say, ‘His immortal part has departed; he is gone to the happy hunt- ing-plains.’ T...

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... of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he es caped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and ob... ...e been not above the height to be chosen by women as best. All features of consequence were severe and regular. It may have been observed by persons w... ...nds dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world mad... ...nksgiving!’ dashed in Mark Clark conclusively, not feeling it to be of any consequence to his opinion that he had only heard about a word and three qu... ...o, sir — I’m your better,” or “Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.” And did you love him, miss?’ ‘Oh, no. But I rather liked him.... ...hew Moon, ma’am,’ said a singular framework of clothes with nothing of any consequence inside them, which advanced with the toes in no definite di rec...

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...at length exerted, and the appointment was conferred on him. The immediate consequence was his marriage with the first pretty girl he met, poorer than... ...hat, having made those Marksedge people thieves, mur- der will be the next consequence.’ A few seconds sufficed to bring the ludicrous back. ‘How pat ... ...so early in the year too. He says we must send the account to the Ornitho- logical—’ ‘Do you know how wet you are? exclaimed Mrs. Ponsonby, seeing riv... ... of the steps, and very unpleasant he found it—though not without the best consequences, and among them the present—’ And he turned to Lady Conway wit... ...tyranny; it was possible to abuse submission, and who could answer for the consequences of thwarting strong affections? All the ground Fitzjocelyn had... ...his hearing. The result was, that the locked-up prince died of look-jaw in consequence of tearing his hand with a nail in the picture of the lion.’ ‘I...

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...t is largely irremediable. We shall never learn the affinities of beauty, for they lie too deep in nature and too far back in the mysterious history o... ...yphic touch, no smoothed impasto, no inscrutable shadow, as in painting; no blank wall, as in architecture; but every word, phrase, sentence, and para... ...gment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one. The web, then, or the pattern: a we... ...s, even if one of them be rotten, kept dancing with inimitable grace. Up to this moment I have had my eye mainly upon prose; for though in verse also ... ...greatness of the true versifier: such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Victor Hugo, whom I place beside them as ver- sifier merely, not as poet. These not ... ...he acquired his irritating habit of repeating words; I say the one rather than the other, because such a trick of the ear is deeper-seated and more or... ... number of young persons to adopt this way of life with an eye set singly on the livelihood, we must expect them in their works to follow profit only,...

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...bright as day. The moon right over Vaea—near due west, the birds strangely silent, and the wood of the house tin- gling with cold; I believe it must h... ... I bear up, and rejoice when I find anything safe. 19TH. However, I worked five hours on the brute, and finished my Letter all the same, and couldn’t ... ... it came on to rain tropic style, and I came back from my outing drenched liked a drowned man—I was literally blinded as I came back among these sheet... ...r Faauma, the unchaste, the extruded Eve of our Paradise, knew only two hymns; but Helen seems to know the whole repertory, and the morning prayers go... ...I told him the heads of what I meant to say; and he not only consented, but said, if we got on well with the King, he would even proceed with me to Ma... ... sending you a wire by her hands as far as Sydney, that is to say either you or Cassell, about Falesa: I will not allow it to be called Uma in book fo...

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... which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible ... ...y: I could not then distinctly say it to myself; yet I had a reason, and a logical, natural reason too. However, when I had brushed my hair very smoot... ...n’t thoroughly understand him, in short—at least, I don’t: but it is of no consequence, he is a very good master.” This was all the account I got from... ...yet he was anxious that Mr. Edward should have wealth, too, to keep up the consequence of the name; and, soon after he was of age, some steps were tak... ...about appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is of little consequence, or something of that sort.” “You ought to have replied no such... ... of that sort.” “You ought to have replied no such thing. Beauty of little consequence, indeed! And so, under pretence of softening the previous outra...

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...t company, and felt subdued, not to say torpid. I was not even of sufficient consequence to assist at the wheel when it was necessary to put the tille... ...f boat reports, none but chance and unsatisfactory ways of getting news. The consequence was that a man sometimes had to run five hundred miles of riv... ...hen the dead low water came it was destruc tive. Now came another perfectly logical result. The outsiders began to ground steamboats, sink them, and ... ... horse or a cow—anyway, it was a little matter; the money in it wasn’t of no consequence— none in the world—both families was rich. The thing could ha... ...d just been assassinated by an agent of the Governor of Missouri, and was in consequence occupying a good deal of space in the newspapers. Cheap histo... ...eems to have sampled all the different vari eties of human experience; as a consequence, you can’t men tion an outside matter of any sort but it wil... ...n the midst of a time when the hap penings of life were not the natural and logical results of great general laws, but of special orders, and were fr...

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.... The consideration of his health was constantly before him, and it was in consequence of this that, while at Venice, which disappointed him, he took ... ...ckness he conversed as fully with me as with any one, and also because, in consequence of the singular and brotherly friendship which we had enter- ta... ...ults, and torment them for wanton tricks, that have neither impression nor consequence; whereas, in my opinion, lying only, and, which is of something... ...excuse his 91 Montaigne master to his Majesty about a thing of very great consequence, which was this: the King, still to maintain some intelligence ... ...rary is quickened by another), or say, when we come to vir- tue, that like consequences and difficulties overwhelm and render it austere and inaccessi... ...b- sidiary and suffragan, and that, peradventure, grammatical, rhetorical, logical examples may elsewhere be more suitably chosen, as also the materia...

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...had thought of doing as so many of the work- ing-women do; but the fear of consequences kept her from vice. She was floating undecidedly along, when M... ...ou, my dear fellow, if you will only, for once in your life, use your wits logically.” [He stopped as if to study the effect of his adverb in Bixiou’s... ...ially] “After all, so much the better. Du Bruel, just keep your eye on the consequences. Rabourdin would be a mean-spirited creature to stay under Bau... ...ed, has gone the rounds of the offices and is misinterpreted by hatred; in consequence, I find myself compelled to resign, under the tacit condemnatio... ...is musket.” Poiret [his eyes wide open]. “Monsieur, a government clerk is, logically speaking, a man who needs the salary to main- tain himself, and i... ...oms up in the sphere of higher salaries; and also this second and not less logical and important corollary: Directors-general may be statesmen. Perhap...

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...ame for his manner of spending his time. He was bringing it on, bringing it to perfection, by practice; in consequence of which it had grown so fine t... ..., as he felt, a moment back, the very breath of him; but when had he been so close as in this simple, this logical, this com- pletely personal act? It...

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...ties go too far, they are very dangerous to cities, and of most pernicious consequence. When Agesilaus was newly entered upon the government, there ca... ...ians pursued hard, took their camp, and put many of them to the sword. The consequence of this victory was very great; for they had not only the liber... ... the commonwealth wanted soldiers so much as then it did, was of dangerous consequence. Therefore they chose Agesilaus as a sort of new lawgiver for t... ...gment of the people, and give an account of their actions before them, the consequence was that when Pompey began to make his levies, he found himself... ...s reason that 154 V olume Two Pompey never employed Cato in any matter of consequence during the whole war, but now when he pursued Caesar, left him ... ...himself was to compose and translate philosophical dialogues and to render logical and physical terms into the Roman idiom. For he it was, as it is sa...

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...icers on their own account, had impoverished him, he was still a person of consequence. En glish officials–Deputy Commissioners even–turned aside fro... ... as Hindus pray to the Holy Cow. That at least would be entirely right and logical, and the padre with the gold cross would be therefore the man to co... ...sed an Act upon the world, and as a stone thrown into a pool so spread the consequences thou canst not tell how far.’ This ignorance was well both for... ...on if he heard that they had hit a priest. He enlarged on this sin and its consequences till they bade him change the subject. Their one hope, said he... ...d. But they considered the lama’s presence a perfect safeguard against all consequences, and impenitently brought Kim of their best – even to a drink ...