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He understood that Renee had staked her glove on his coming within a certain number of hours to the briefest wording of invitation possible. Owing to his detention by the storm, M. d'Henriel had won the bet, and now insisted on wearing the glove. 'He is the privileged young madman our women make of a handsome youth, said Madame d'Auffray.
Such, in briefest outline, has been the history of religions, natural and moral; the first, indeed, being in no proper sense a religion at all, as we understand religion; and only assuming the character of it in the minds of great men whose moral sense had raised them beyond their time and country, and who, feeling the necessity of a real creed, with an effort and with indifferent success, endeavoured to express, under the systems which they found, emotions which had no proper place in them.
She had been too busy to write any but the briefest letters home, and had said very little about him. To her last note she had added a post-script, "I am sure you will like Mr. Kinney, father. He is very kind and very good. But he is not old as we thought." To the Elder she said, as they drove over, "I think you will love my father, sir, and I know you will do him good.
It is said to have been written on scraps of paper, as the great care-worn man rode in the car from Washington to Gettysburg, and I have been told by one who was present at the ceremonies that the quiet had hardly come over the vast audience, stirred by the eloquence of Edward Everett's oration which had lasted two hours, before this briefest and noblest of American orations, spoken in a high and unmusical voice by the great lank figure, consulting his manuscript, was over.
But the whole thing sets me thinking of the fairy stories I used to read when I was a kid, and never could see the horse sense in wasting time over." Bat helped himself to a chew from a fragment of plug tobacco. "Here, listen," Bull went on, after the briefest pause. "It's my 'show down. I don't understand a thing. I'm mostly a kid from college with a yearning for fight.
Reduced to its utmost simplicity, and expressed in the briefest formula, it amounts, in substance, to this: that the whole universe is to us a mere process of thought, and that nothing exists, or, at least, can be known by us, beyond the ideas of our own minds. And what is the ground on which it rests?
Nevertheless, it is likely that the great bulk of women wage earners will continue to be employed as at present upon relatively simple, light and unskilled work. Such, in briefest outline, is the economic position of the wage earners in American industry to-day. There is a diversity of outlook and of animating spirit among the various groups or classes.
It was a second or two before he could decide what to say. "No, Miss Guion," he answered then; "I don't understand that point of view." "I'm sorry. I hoped you would." "Why?" She lifted her clear gray eyes on him for the briefest possible look. "Need I explain?" The question gave him an advantage he was quick to seize. "Not at all, Miss Guion. You've a right to your own judgments.
Finally this contumacious coachman lengthened the checkstrings into a sort of jury-reins, communicating with the horses; with these he drove as steadily as may be supposed. The emperor returned after the briefest of circuits; he descended in great pomp from his throne, with the severest resolution never to remount it.
His next duty was to go to the relief of the little Princess. A dull fancy would have taught how trying the situation must have been to her; but with him the case was of a quick understanding quickened by solicitude. Taking Nilo with him, he made haste to the sedan. If we pause here, venturing on the briefest break in the narrative, it is for the reader's sake exclusively.
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