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And, mark you, Jacob! since you ARE poor, don't let anybody suppose you are rich. For my part, I shall not expect you to buy Whitney's place; all I ask is that you'll tell me, fair and square, just what things and what people you've got acquainted with. Get to bed now the matter's settled; I will have it so." They rose and walked across the meadow to the house.
Without it " "Major Moxon," said an officer, entering and saluting, "the General presents his compliments, and desires to know why his repeated orders in regard to the furloughing of men have been so persistently disregarded." "Because," said the Surgeon, getting purplish-red about the cheeks and nose, " because the matter's one which I consider outside of his province beyond his control, sir.
"No, he isn't." "Then the matter's perfectly simple. I don't think I mentioned to you, Major, that I travelled down in the train to-day with a professional murderess." "Do try to talk sense, J. J." "Her speciality is husbands," said Meldon. "I don't know exactly how many she has done for in her time, but there must be several.
I would now add, that the hypothesis of matter's being, at first, evenly spread through the heavens, is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity, without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and, therefore, it infers a deity.
"Oh!" he exclaimed, "that's ridiculous! The thing will cost you nothing, and I'll come up a thousand dollars. You ought to see you must accept." "I don't see," Kit replied as carelessly as he could, and got up. "Since you can't wait, I understand the matter's off."
It has always struck the author as remarkable that men should so obstinately refuse to admit the possibility of matter's necessary existence, while they readily embrace, not only as possibly, but certainly, true, the paradoxical proposition that a something, having nothing in common with anything, is necessarily existent. Matter is everywhere around and about us.
Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; But sometimes, in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done. In telegraphic sentences, half swallowed at the ends, They hint a matter's inwardness and there the matter ends. And while the Celt is talking from Valencia to Kirkwall, The English ah, the English! don't say anything at all!
"Von't you hear me? ough! ough!" demanded Sharples, after a pause. "By all means," rejoined Quilt. "Raise your vice, and lave off coughin'," added Terence. "The long and the short o' the matter's this then," returned Sharples with dignity, "the Markis begs your acceptance o' ten guineas to drink his health." The hooting was instantaneously changed to cheers.
Why, it's food to you, and drink to you, and firing to you, and boots for the children's feet. Look here, my woman. You've had a sore affliction, but that's not to say you're to throw good luck in the dirt for a whimsey. This matter's settled."
'But it's a question about packing cannon and small arms; and you might be useful in dropping a hint or two. The matter's innocent. It's not even a substitution of one form of Government for another: only a change of despots, I suspect. And here's Mr. John Mattock himself, who'll corroborate me, as far as we can let you into the secret before we've consulted together.
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