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He looked at it fixedly for a moment, and then, forgetting Mr Sharnall and the music, left the loft, and made his way to the wooden platform that the masons had built up under the roof. Mr Sharnall did not even perceive that he had gone down, and dashed con furore into the Gloria.
Lowther, and there I did pull the others off and put them on, elle being peu shy, but do speak con mighty kindness to me that she would desire me pour su mari if it were to be done . . . . . Here staid a little at Sir W. Pen's, who was gone to bed, it being about eleven at night, and so I home to bed. 11th. Up, and to my office, where alone all the morning.
MacCall's voice sounded sharply on the morning air: "That pig! in that garden again! Shoo! Shoo, you beast! I wish you'd eat yourself to death and then maybe your master would keep you home!" "Oh, oh, oh!" squealed Agnes. "Con Murphy's pig after our cabbages!" "That pig again?" echoed Ruth, starting after the flying Agnes.
'You like him, uncle? He is out riding, they tell me. 'The youngster is used to south-western showers in that climate of his, Mr. Adister replied. 'I dare say we could find the Jesuit in him somewhere. There's the seed. His cousin Con O'Donnell has filled him with stuff about Ireland and England: the man has no better to do than to train a parrot. What do you think of him, my love?
One of our acquaintances was hung on the horns of this dilemma for several months while he and his wife spent most of their waking hours arguing it pro and con. They had selected the vicinity in which they wanted to live, had the requisite cash in the bank to finance either undertaking, and there were two properties that pleased them. The latter constituted the snag.
"Hurts most around my lungs," he said, "and mebbe I've got the con. I spent some time in a camp where fifty poor folks was sleeping under canvas down in Arizona, and I'm a whole lot afraid I may have caught the disease there.
It was a time to see a woman redden who was not given to reddening as a rule; not a point in the milkmaid but was of the deepest rose-colour. From the Maiden's Blush, through all varieties of the Provence down to the Crimson Tuscany, the countenance of Oak's acquaintance quickly graduated; whereupon he, in con- siderateness, turned away his head.
Adister should have a hint of it, to soften the shock I fear it may be: but we must wait till her headache has passed, she said. 'You read to the end? said Philip. 'Yes, Captain Con always amuses me, and I am bound to confess I have no positive disrelish of his compliments. But this may prove a desperate step. The secret of his happiness is in extreme jeopardy.
He compares the noise of a tremendous battle heard in the neighbourhood to the sound of the cataracts of the Nile: "un alto suon ch' a quel s' accorda Con che i vicin' cadendo il Nil assorda." He "scourges" ships at sea with tempests say rather the "miserable seamen;" while night-time grows blacker and blacker on the "exasperated waters."
Abaft the funnel in these ships there is an upright oval tube rising some seventeen feet above the level of the main deck, plated with iron. The upper plate is pierced with several small horizontal slits, from which the tube has received the name of the "conning-house," for through these openings the captain can "con" or note whatever is going on outside, without himself being exposed to danger.
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