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The saddle will certainly not fit, such is the imperfection of our transitory life; it will assuredly topple and tend to overset; but there are stones on every roadside, and a man soon learns the art of correcting any tendency to overbalance with a well-adjusted stone.
But no one among them whooped louder or laughed longer than their elderly and bewhiskered friend, who sat among them, paying the bills. As his guests they stayed for the concert; and, following this, they patronised the side show in a body. They had been almost the first upon the scene; assuredly they were the last of the audience to quit it.
An hour and a half passed, and then the woman from above ran down with the news that she could see three horsemen galloping together towards the castle, with a number of others following in confused order behind. "Then they have found my lord," Edith exclaimed joyfully, "for Ralph would assuredly not return so quickly had they not done so.
"Lady," replied Demetrius, "it needed no explanation of your motive in bringing me hither to command on my part that respect which is due to you." A weight was removed from Wagner's mind: it was assuredly no tender sentiment that had brought Nisida and the Greek together this night; and the curiosity of Fernand was therefore excited all the more strongly.
Did ever man choose his time with less discrimination, or his words with less discretion? Assuredly not. To suppose that Mr. Caryll was unaware of this, would be to suppose him a fool, and that he most certainly was not. His mood was extremely complex; its analysis, I fear, may baffle us.
"For shouldst thou ever enter the city of Babylon," they said, "thou wilt assuredly die." King Alexander thanked them for the advice and the warning, and set forth on his adventures. After many days King Alexander came to the Mountains of Darkness.
Albert asked. "I know not, lad. The better class of citizens are assuredly opposed to those who make these troubles, although they have often shown that they can make troubles themselves when they think that their privileges are assailed; still, as they know that their booths are likely to be ransacked, were bands of rioters to obtain possession of the town, they will doubtless give us any aid in their power.
It may be that, in his own immediate circle at Paris, there is a tendency towards Atheism; but, assuredly, no such tendency exists in the highest and most scientific minds of modern Europe.
Both the others were taken rather aback, especially as Cosin continued to seem very much in earnest. "There must be a marriage-settlement of some sort." "Assuredly," Tournier replied, relieved, but still somewhat puzzled. "Whatever you think right, I shall be delighted to do." "Do you really mean that?" said Cosin, still very seriously. "Indeed I do.
Trenchard, whom I had left in the depths of a lethargic depression, was most curiously preoccupied. He looked at me first as though he did not perfectly remember me. He, assuredly, was not well. His eyes were lined heavily, his white cheeks had a flush of red that burnt there feverishly, and he seemed extraordinarily thin.
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