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Victoria was much impressed and deeply grateful. "My dearest Angel," she told King Leopold, "is indeed a great comfort to me. He takes the greatest interest in what goes on, feeling with and for me, and yet abstaining as he ought from biasing me either way, though we talk much on the subject, and his judgment is, as you say, good and mild."
To my astonishment, she gave an immediate sign of intelligence by gliding, silently as a shadow, another step in my direction, and her biasing eyes appeared to kindle with merriment. Had she a veil over her eyes? It almost looked so and this extraordinary measure of precaution challenged me the more strongly to overcome her reluctance to being known. "Do you understand me?" I asked.
These are by no means exaggerations; they are sad facts that I have met with in my experience with radical parents. What are the results of such methods of biasing the mind? The following is the consequence, and not very infrequent, either.
Such ideas as these are corrupting courts, and biasing the public mind, and the injury is more than apparent to the observer. If law is not a standard, what standard can we have? We must have one. We repeat again: "Law commands that which is right and prohibits that which is wrong." Any statute that does this is lawful. Any that does not, is anarchy. God is truly the author of law.
"Miss Selwyn, I presume," the young man said, politely, as he disentangled one hand from the reins to grasp mine. The horse started off on a biasing canter, much to my amusement. "You are not afraid, I hope," my companion said, a trifle anxiously. "Not afraid, but amused; your horse goes so oddly; but I am not accustomed to their ways." I added, fearing my remark might give offence.
There weren't no necessity for her to meet him in Paris." The doctor sprang from his chair and with eyes biasing and fists tightly clenched, stood over the captain. "And you dare to sit there and tell me that Miss Jane Cobden is that child's mother?" The captain struggled to his feet, his open hands held up to the doctor as if to ward off a blow. "Miss Jane! No, by God! No! Are you crazy?
Such intimacies as these, the gentlemen very plausibly argued, could not exist without strongly biasing the magistrate towards the planters, and rendering it almost impossible for them to administer equal justice to the poor apprentice, who, unfortunately, had no sumptuous dinners to give them, no luxurious sofas to offer them, nor dowered daughters to present in marriage.
It was slanting off at a bias to the southeast, leaving a long, lean, wedge-shaped gap between it and the last strip. I pulled it off and started again, shifting the angle. But I overdid the thing. This time it went biasing off in the other direction and left an untidy smudge of paste on Westbury's nice, clean strip.
My honesty is known, my Lord; it is known there, pointing up about a month ago, I say, I had my last child baptized by I am ashamed to tell your lordship what name, lest you might imagine that I done so for the purpose of biasing your judgment in the No, my Lord, I will add nothing to the simple fact I had my last child baptized by the name of Richard Pennywinkle M'Slime a circumstance which fills my heart with sentiments of joy and gratification up to this moment.
Of the other girls in the school only a passing glimpse need be given. Saturday afternoons were always perfectly free at Columbia Heights, and the girls could do practically as they chose. There was one rule, or rather the absence of it, which had appealed very strongly to Mrs. Harold and gone a long way toward biasing her choice in favor of the school.
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