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Captain Weston was a general favourite; and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to Miss Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprized, except her brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connexion would offend.
He entertained no false ideas of his personal importance. But his lack of experience did not daunt him. He simply made up his mind that he would go forward, keeping soul and heart open, as well as eyes and ears. He believed that the square deal could not be hidden from those who entered public life in that manner. He did not discuss all this with his grandfather.
The rebels fled at the first onset, and the Spaniards closed the gates. Feeling the full importance of the moment, Count Louis ordered a large force of musketeers to recover the position, and to complete the work of inundation. It was too late. The little band of Spaniards held the post with consummate tenacity.
As a companion he acquires more importance than he ever had as a sort of minor genius in his way as an original Italian sailor whom I allowed to come in in the small hours and talk familiarly to the editor of the Porvenir while the paper was going through the press. And it is curious to have met a man for whom the value of life seems to consist in personal prestige.
The enemy's occupation of the position, of which General Douay had been forced to abandon the defense, was, as Maurice had instinctively felt, an event of the gravest importance and destined to result in the most disastrous consequences; its possessors would have entire command of all the surrounding plateau.
"I had made the mistake of thinking that I, as an individual, had any importance. In my insane belief that a heavenly beauty, a celestial chorus girl, was kept for me, I pictured myself as an object of tender universal consideration. "Damned anthropomorfic rot!
Tripoli received its name from once containing three cities of considerable importance, which are now little else than ruins." MRS. WILTON. "The 'Research' has not tarried long on that coast, at any rate.
Remarkable as was the occurrence, Captain Heywood attached no importance to it, simply considering it a singular coincidence."
It was, therefore, only those portions of Texas and Florida which were situated below this parallel which came within the prescribed conditions of latitude. Florida, in its southern part, reckons no cities of importance; it is simply studded with forts raised against the roving Indians. One solitary town, Tampa Town, was able to put in a claim in favor of its situation.
Manuelita trembled, and lifting her beautiful eyes to Jacopo she inquired anxiously: "Jacopo, is there a storm coming on?" "Pah," replied the Corsican reassuringly, as he threw his net into the sea; "it is of no importance." Jacopo was an experienced seaman; when he said the storm did not signify, you could depend on it that he was right.
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