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Why, he put a man on the look-out on the forecastle, just as if we were going up channel, or in a crowded sea- way! The skipper had meant him to look-out himself, but another wouldn't be amiss, he said.
Worms, grubs, caterpillars, insects, all found their way to the little gaping mouths, nothing came amiss, until the Blackbird felt that if it went on much longer there would be no insects left in the whole country, and that his young ones would certainly die of indigestion.
I forgot to wind my clock. I suppose it's very late." "No," said Ludlow, "it's so very early that I ought to apologize for coming, I suppose. But I wished to see Miss Saunders " He stopped, feeling that he had given too rude a hint. Charmian did not take it amiss. "Oh, Cornelia is usually up at all sorts of unnatural hours of the day.
Harold had been observing every word and action as it was a part of her nature to observe yes, intuitively feel every word and action of the young people with whom she came in touch, and the older ones who were likely to bring any influence to bear upon their lives, and this little scene did more to confirm her in the belief that she had not been amiss when she selected Columbia Heights School for Peggy than anything else could have done.
"Art thou waking yet, Rahal?" he asked, and Rahal answered, "I have slept little. I have been long awake." "Well then, what dost thou think now of Ian Macrae, so-called?" "I think little amiss of him some youthful follies nothing to make a fuss about." "Hast thou considered that the follies of youth may become the follies of manhood, and of age? What then?"
She wrote in Italian: "My dear father, I don't know why you have gone away, and I dare not ask mother or the others about it, for they don't quite understand and take it amiss and won't speak of you. But I will think that it had to be and say that I am not angry. You had better not answer, for that would annoy mother. Your loving little daughter, Emilia."
Always full of good spirits and laughter, ever the soul and life of the house, it was unusual to find her in this mood, and if her husband, now voraciously devouring the tempting array of ham and eggs spread before him, had not been so absorbed in the news of the day, he would have quickly noticed it, and guessed there was something amiss.
As it was, things did not go much amiss. I had the honour of being introduced to the old Marquis de B-: in days of yore he had signalized himself by some small feats of chivalry in the Cour d'Amour, and had dress'd himself out to the idea of tilts and tournaments ever since. The Marquis de B- wish'd to have it thought the affair was somewhere else than in his brain.
If it were not, whom dost tin accuse? the atoms, or the Gods? For to do either, the part of a mad man. Thou must therefore blame nobody, but if it be in thy power, redress what is amiss; if it be not, to what end is it to complain? For nothing should be done but to some certain end.
IT is not so easy to tell why discredit should be cast upon a man because of something that his grandfather may have done amiss, but the world, which is never overnice in its discrimination as to where to lay the blame, is often pleased to make the innocent suffer in the place of the guilty.
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