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Miller and the fat gentleman. The round game comprised the rest of the company. The rubber was conducted with all that gravity of deportment and sedateness of demeanour which befit the pursuit entitled 'whist' a solemn observance, to which, as it appears to us, the title of 'game' has been very irreverently and ignominiously applied.
Silence would befit the subject, only that, unluckily, a well-meaning publisher was struck by the idea of mobilizing the clerical forces to hail James Tissot as an evangelical painter.
These duties were many and important, albeit the Rector could, if he willed, appoint a deputy, and the calls upon the purse of the holder must have been very heavy. It would be hard to imagine any one less fitted to fill such a post than Cardan, and assuredly no office could befit him less than this pseudo-rectorship.
Benedict, of the sanctity of its founder, of the virtues, the piety, the good works of its members, and submitted to them that by taking the name of "Oblates of Mount Olivet," and observing conjointly certain rules, such as might befit persons living in the world, they might participate in their merits, and enjoy their privileges.
Take the freedom and dignity which befit a man of your accomplishments and with one exception ask of me anything else you choose." With one exception! Helga sprang forward and caught Leif's hand imploringly in hers. And Alwin, still upon his knee, reached out and grasped the chief's mantle. "Lord," he cried, "you have been better to me, a hundredfold better, than I deserve!
On the day before the formal dissolution of their house the monks sung the last service in the abbey church. It was held late in the evening, partly because this time seemed to befit such a farewell, and partly that less public attention might be attracted; for there was a doubt whether the King's servants would permit any further ceremonies.
That is why the symphony, as Beethoven understood it, is such a wonderfully obscure production, more especially when, here and there, it makes faltering attempts at rendering Beethoven's pathos. The means ill befit the intention, and the intention is, on the whole, not sufficiently clear to the listener, because it was never really clear, even in the mind of the composer.
He turned as if to depart, but instantly coming back, said, with a tone of deep and serious emphasis, "I know your hopes they are daring, yet not vain if I aid them. I know your fears, they should teach prudence, not timidity. Every woman may be won. A count is but a nickname, which will befit Quentin as well as the other nickname of duke befits Charles, or that of king befits Louis."
Starkad in anger flung it back most ignominiously in the face of the giver, and began again in a loud voice: "Take hence, I pray thee, thy woman's gift, and set back thy headgear on thy head; no brave man assumes the chaplets that befit Love only.
'A true woman's imagination that to dismiss is to silence, he laughed. 'It would show at least that you will not brook to have your wife defamed! Oh! sir, sir, she cried, 'I only ask what any other husband would have done long ago of his own accord and rightful anger. Smile not thus or you will see me frenzied. 'Smiles best befit woman's tears, said Louis coolly.
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