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Convinced of this, he halted the pony again, swaying in the saddle and holding, for the first time, to the pommel in an effort to steady himself. But he still swayed. He laughed mockingly. "Now, what do you think of that?" he said, addressing the silence. "You might think I was plum tenderfoot an' didn't know how to ride a horse proper."
She thought him eccentric, even for an Englishman, and possibly a little vain of his knowledge. But he had at least paid her the implied compliment of addressing that knowledge to herself; and she felt it the more sensibly, from having hitherto found her scientific sympathies with her deceased husband treated with no great respect by the people with whom she came in contact.
The other three young women sat on cushions on the floor, while Arline presided at the center table, which had been placed several feet in front of the members. "The meeting is open for suggestions," repeated Arline after two minutes had elapsed and not a word had been said. "If any one has a suggestion, she may tell us without addressing the chair.
In addressing the court the Solicitor General produced two pieces of thin paper the same that had been brought in on the previous afternoon. "I have got to show the court," he said impressively, "the most deadly code ever prepared against the safeguards of Great Britain." And it certainly was.
"The rabble!" cried Patience, addressing me for the first time since I arrived. "Who dares to talk of rabble here? I myself am of the rabble. It is my title, and I shall know how to make it respected." "By Jove! Not by me," I said, pushing away the cure, who had made me sit down again. "And yet it would not be for the first time," replied Patience, with a contemptuous smile.
Southey doing as much on that of the Princess Charlotte. This is the general argument of the Proem. But the reader must know a little more of the details. In his early youth, the ingenious author says he aspired to the fame of a poet; and then Fancy came to him, and showed him the glories of his future career, addressing him in these encouraging words
Foote, on his last journey to France for the recovery of his health, while waiting for the packet, entered the kitchen of the Ship tavern at Dover, and, addressing the cook, who prided herself in never having been ten miles out of town, exclaimed, "Why, cookee, I understand you have been a great traveller."
"I must decline to answer," replied Stott finally. Shirley left her place and came slowly forward. Addressing Ryder, she said: "I wish to make a statement." The financier gazed at her in astonishment. What could she know about it, he wondered, and he waited with curiosity to hear what she was going to say.
I modestly and with great deference called to their recollection the language, the irresistible arguments, in favour of Universal Suffrage, which, in his Register, Mr. Cobbett himself had published, within one short fortnight of the time in which I was addressing them.
As it was possible that I might be absent for some little time, I arranged with Marian that we were to correspond every day of course addressing each other by assumed names, for caution's sake. As long as I heard from her regularly, I should assume that nothing was wrong.
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