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In spite of her efforts to judge this strange selfish girl dispassionately Grace knew in her heart that she still disapproved of Evelyn. The first week in February found Grace looking forward to her week end in New York City.
He seemed at a loss for a while. "I suppose I must report a suicide." "Beg pardon?" "Suicide! That's what I'll have to write to my owners directly I get in." "Unless you manage to recover him before to-morrow," I assented, dispassionately. . . "I mean, alive." He mumbled something which I really did not catch, and I turned my ear to him in a puzzled manner.
There should also be some gain of insight and sobriety in recalling that the Intellectuals of the Fatherland, who have doubtless pondered this matter longer and more dispassionately than all other men, have spoken very highly of the merits of such a plan of universal submission to the rule of this German dynastic establishment.
"Why, it seems a pity," whispered Basil, dispassionately, "to turn this man adrift, when he had a reasonable hope of being with us all day, and has been so civil and obliging." "O yes, Basil, sentimentalize him, do! Why don't you sentimentalize his helpless, overworked horse? all in a reek of perspiration." "Perspiration! Why, my dear, it 's the rain!"
Goodnow, arming himself with a limited amount of paper and ink, produced in very few days the Memorandum which follows, a document which it is difficult to speak of dispassionately since it seems to have been deliberately designed to play into the hands of a man who was now openly set on betraying the trust the nation reposed in him, and who was ready to wade through rivers of blood to satisfy his insensate ambition.
In choosing incumbents for public trusts, he knew no foe, perhaps no friend; but as dispassionately as if he were manoeuvring pieces on a chessboard, he considered only which available piece would serve best in the square which he had to fill. In 1859 he and Stanton had met as associate counsel in perhaps the most important lawsuit in which Mr.
Look at it dispassionately, and you will see much to admire in his skill. He pleases, he amuses, he startles, he baffles, he mystifies." The Duchess made an impatient exclamation. "The silly newspapers call him a 'remarkable man, a personality. Now, believe me, Windlehurst, he will overreach himself one of these days, and he'll come down like a stick." "There you are on solid ground.
He had never been so disturbed before and did not know it was possible for him to be upset in this manner. There had been other crises, other disagreeable happenings in his life, but he had met them calmly, dispassionately, with what he was pleased to call philosophy. He had liked to fancy himself as ruled wholly by intellect and not at all by emotion.
His vivid blue eyes were extraordinarily keen and penetrating; possibly they, and the determined, squarish jaw, were answerable for that unquestioning obedience which was invariably accorded him. "Good-morning, uncle mine!" Sara bent to kiss him as the door closed quietly behind the retreating servants. Patrick Lovell screwed his monocle into his eye and regarded her dispassionately.
The only way, it seemed, in which she could give the stone mason his share of his grandfather's property was by stripping herself of all her possessions for the tribe of California Clarks, which she felt no inclination to do. Her cousin, apparently, had been following the same course of reflection in part. He observed dispassionately,
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