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That is its nearest approach, its perihelion, in relation to ourselves; and it is precisely two and three-quarters miles distant from Mavis Bush, the name of our cottage. Close to us, and the most noticeable object for guiding your inquiries, is Mr. Annandale's Paper-Mills. Excuse my levity; and believe that with sincere pleasure we shall receive your obliging visit. "Ever your faithful servant,
In another letter she mentions him in a tone of contemptuous pity, almost equally unbecoming, speaking of him as "the poor man" whom she had made a tool of to further some views of her own, though Mercy assured the empress that her assertion of having so treated him was a mere fiction of her imagination, to impart a sort of lively tone to her letter; that, in spite of occasional outbursts of levity, she had in reality the firmest affection and esteem for Louis; and that nothing could be more irreproachable than her conduct toward him in every respect.
This morning, in order not to die yet, I thought I had better take a ride, and accordingly mounted the horse which I told you was one of the equestrian alternatives offered me here; but no sooner did he feel my weight, which, after all, is mere levity and frivolity to him, than he thought proper to rebel, and find the grasshopper a burthen, and rear and otherwise demonstrate his disgust.
"You don't suppose she could have got off to pick flowers, do you?" asked Mrs. Leighton, softly. "Why, Mother!" cried Natalie. "Do you know that mammy may be killed? We'll have to go straight back." "No, we won't," said Mrs. Leighton, flushing at her levity before the very portals of the church. "She's all right. I looked back, and saw her crossing the lawn."
In this light it is of great moral importance. As a guarantee of independence, the modest and plebeian quality of economy is at once ennobled and raised to the rank of one of the most meritorious of virtues. "Never treat money affairs with levity," said Bulwer; "Money is Character."
Beautiful, however, she must have been; and a Cinderella, I hope, not a Cinderellula, considering that she had the inimitable walk and step of the Andalusians, which cannot be accomplished without something of a proportionate basis to stand upon. She, by her criminal levity, was the cause of all.
We got a second War Office pass sending us to Aix by way of Louvain, Tirlemont, and Liege. Armed with these we went down to an old Major Bock von W , in charge of transportation at Schaerbeek, on the outskirts of the city. I showed him the passes and said with a painful attempt at levity, "Major, we can't obey both of these, so we 're going to get shot either way we go.
On this occasion he did not understand himself; if he had been a sanctimonious youngster he would have reproved his own seeming levity, but he was not so, and frankly felt himself restless and ill at ease. The name given to her had been Clorinda, and from her babyhood she had been as tempestuous as her sisters were mild. None could manage her.
It was a guarantee of duration, of safety, while the travail of maturing destiny went on a work not of revolutions with their passionate levity of action and their shifting impulses but of peace. What it needed was not the conflicting aspirations of a people, but a will strong and one: it wanted not the babble of many voices, but a man strong and one! Razumov stood on the point of conversion.
'She is Flora Mac-Ivor, sir, said Waverley, with firmness, 'which to me, were I capable of treating ANY woman with levity, would be a more effectual protection. The brow of the Chieftain was now fully clouded; but Edward felt too indignant at the unreasonable tone which he had adopted to avert the storm by the least concession.
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