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We felt that we had taught these wild ape-men a lesson and that because of it we would be safer in the future at least safer from them; but we decided not to abate our carefulness one whit; feeling that this new world was filled with terrors still unknown to us; nor were we wrong.
Blake dropped down beside the flaccid body and tore open the front of the silk shirt. He thrust in his hand. For some moments he was baffled by the violent throbbing of his own pulse. Then, at last, he detected a heartbeat, very feeble and slow yet unmistakable. He turned Ashton on his side, and washing away the blood with water from the canteen, examined the wound with utmost carefulness.
The lily-of-the-valley was gone; he had no idea where he had lost it, nor could he now stay to inquire. The rose he took with tender carefulness from the upper pocket of his waistcoat. "What did Mademoiselle expect?" said he, with a courtly bow. "The president wears it over his heart." Sharlee's smile was a coronation for a man. "That one was for the president.
There was one tremendous dump of eight-gallon, basket-covered wine bottles empty naturally; a street of stables and dwelling-huts; a small mountain of mouldy hay; and several vast barns that had been used for storing clothing and material. Each building was protected from our bombers by rubble revetments, fashioned with the usual German carefulness.
Inquisitive the public always will be, but it is a mistake to indulge rather than to pique its curiosity. Tennyson respected the wishes of his public in this matter, and, not only in his dress and his dramatic seclusion, but surely in his obstinate avoidance of prose-work of any kind we have a subtler expression of his carefulness for fame.
Urian learnt more of a gentleman's carefulness and propriety of appearance from that lad in two months than he had done in years from all my lectures.
'Half-past two o'clock in the morning, muttered Jeremiah. 'Where's your hat? Where's your coat? Where's the box? 'All here, said Double, tying up his throat with sleepy carefulness in a shawl. 'Stop a minute. Now give me the sleeve not that sleeve, the other one. Ha! I'm not as young as I was. Mr Flintwinch had pulled him into his coat with vehement energy.
Over the main door a faded, weather-worn sign advertised "Eastup Chick & Son, Blacksmiths." On the gable was a newer sign heralding "Jared Chick & Father, Inventors." "I am Jared Chick, my friend." He talked slowly, pausing to pick words, phrasing with the carefulness of the man of method, talking as those persons talk who have read many books and use their tongue but seldom.
It was the remark of an aged clergyman, retired from pulpit duties, that if he were a layman he should watch with more anxiety and carefulness than laymen do the relations that exist between pastors and the women of their flock.
The bare trees had a kind of glory about them, like old men waiting for their youth, which might come suddenly. A few slow clouds were drifting across the pale sky. A gentle wind was blowing over the wet fields, but when a cloud swept before the sun, it blew cold. The roads were bad, but their horses were used to such, and picked their way with the easy carefulness of experience.
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