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Those words, conned over many times, had nevertheless actually proceeded out of her mouth. Few of us have the power of saying anything we intend to say.
The building still stands, with but little alteration, much as it was in the day when the great Quaker sat at the rude desks and conned the lessons of the old-time English schoolboy. When we invited friends whom we met in London to accompany us on a Sunday afternoon trip, we could think of no road more likely to please them than the one I have just been trying to describe.
"Decent quiet comfort!" said Mary to her brother and sister as they conned the letter over; "how comfortless it sounds!" And so the first month after the death of Sir Thomas passed by, and the misfortunes of the Fitzgerald family ceased to be the only subject spoken of by the inhabitants of county Cork. At the end of the month, Herbert began to prepare himself for facing the world.
I grasped eagerly at the offer, though I had conned over my notes again and again. Thorndyke produced a slip of paper from a drawer, and, uncapping his fountain-pen, proceeded to write down the leading facts, reading each aloud as soon as it was written.
With a countenance whose inscrutability alone was a threat, Victor took out and conned the telegraph form. A message ostensibly so open and aboveboard that it hadn't been thought worth while to hide its wording under the cloak of a code. There was no signature unless one were clever or wise enough to transpose the two final letters and take them in relation to the word immediately preceding.
"This is a rendezvous," thought Quentin, "but how shall I come near enough to overhear the import of what passes? The sound of my steps, and the rustling of the boughs through which I must force my passage, will betray me, unless I am cautious I will stalk them, by Saint Andrew, as if they were Glen Isla deer they shall learn that I have not conned woodcraft for naught.
A diligent student, he had conned over and over, until he knew them by heart, the few manuscript volumes owned by the little church of which he was warden. A lover of solitude, as well as student and dreamer, the church warden's favorite resort, when his duties left him at leisure, was a dense grove not far from the town.
His parts find him oaths and good words, which he keeps for his use and discourse, and makes shew with them of a fashionable companion. He is tragical on the stage, but rampant in the tiring-house, and swears oaths there which he never conned. The waiting women spectators are over-ears in love with him, and ladies send for him to act in their chambers.
My passions were over, my love of pleasure and society was dried up, and I had now no longer the obstacles which forbid us to be wise; I unlearned the precepts my manhood had acquired, and in my old age I commenced philosopher; Religion lent me her aid, and by her holy lamp my studies were conned and my hermitage illumined.
All this Pierre conned slowly in his mind, until he was cold. Then he looked up and saw that the lamp had burned out and that the wood in the fireplace was consumed to a few red embers. He replenished the fire, and when the yellow flames began to mount he made his resolution and walked slowly up and down the floor with it. For he knew that he must go to meet McGurk.
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