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She called the old woman, Yates, grandmother; but I know better than that, for I know where her grandchild is this very minute." "You know her grandchild?" "Yes, I do, and a prettier creature never lived." "You know her, and will tell me?" "Indeed, I will do nothing of the sort," answered Margaret, for she had thrown off the jaunty abbreviation of her name.
"Then S. R. Evans is not your father?" he ventured. "Oh, no." She laughed a light little laugh. "My father is but are you sure that the name was Evans?" "Quite sure. Then there was the abbreviation 'Chi. which I took to mean 'Chicago." "Yes?" she breathed.
And this observed regularity it is found possible to trace much more widely than it is possible to trace any clear evidence of what we understand by force. And so, at last, we frequently use the word force as it were by anticipation, not to express the cause of the phenomena, which indeed we do not yet know, but as a convenient abbreviation for a large number of facts classed under one head.
The inscription adds that Fielding "hunted from East Stour Farm in 1718." He would then be eleven years old! From the hitherto unpublished original, in the library of Alfred Huth, Esq. "Cro: Eliz." is the legal abbreviation for Justice Croke's law reports for the reign of Elizabeth. Champion, February 26, 1740. The Tryal of Colley Cibber, Comedian etc. 1740. Those of April 22, and April 29, 1740.
"Who are the Crosby twins?" inquired Isabel. "They'll probably call on you," Rose replied, "so I won't spoil it by endeavouring to describe them. The language fails to do them justice." "What were their names?" mused Allison. "Let me see. Oh, yes, Romeo and Juliet." "'Romie' and 'Jule' by affectionate abbreviation, to each other," Rose added.
The difficulty is that names of that kind are apt to stick to a boy for fifty years, and then they seem ridiculous. Now a pretty abbreviation like Fred is another matter. But I forget they have brought up my chocolate. Please ring, and let them bring you a cup. We will take our luncheon together, as we used to do." "Thank you, I have no appetite.
"The 'mon' is one abbreviation of 'monsieur, but you put no little how do you say? period at the end of him; it goes now in English My Casimer Teblinski, and that is of the most charming address." Amy colored, but had her return shot ready. "Don't exult; that was only an oversight, not a deliberate deception like that you put upon me. It was very wrong and rude, and I shall not forgive it."
Nor does so big a girl as a grammar-school pupil longer confess to any infantile abbreviation of entitlement; she gives her full baptismal name and is written down, as in Emmy Lou's case, Emily Louise Pope MacLauren, which has its drawbacks; for she sometimes fails to recognise the unaccustomed sound of that name when called unexpectedly from the platform.
They heard Brother Shoveller shouting his orders to the shepherds in tones a great deal more like those of a farmer than of a monk, and they made haste to dress themselves and join him as he was muttering a morning abbreviation of his obligatory devotions in the oratory, observing that they might be in time to hear mass at one of the city churches, but the sheep might delay them, and they had best break their fast ere starting.
Sir, In answer to W. in page 12. of No. 1, I beg to suggest that Dormer, written Dõmr in the MS. a common abbreviation may be the name of the Oxford bookseller, and Henno Rusticus may be Homo rusticus, "the country gentleman."
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