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Should we demur to these eccentricities of an enthusiastic savant, he would perhaps point us to similar excesses in some of the acknowledged lights of intellectual progress, and cite as a recent instance of the madness of too much learning the ascription, by the brilliant yet matter-of-fact and practical Tyndall, of almighty "potency" to matter.
He went to the sideboard, poured out some brandy and pushed the glass towards the wretched man. "Drink that, my lord, and pull yourself together," he said, in a matter-of-fact way. "That's right," as Heyton stretched out a shaking hand and poured some of the spirit down his throat and some over his waistcoat. "Now, you'll want some money. Oh, I know!
If you help me we can be back by ten o'clock, and I will get you a pair of rubber boots as we return." "Will there be any chance after ten o'clock?" he asked, quickly. "Well," said John junior, in his matter-of-fact way, "that depends. As your pa says, there's a risk." The temptation was too strong for the moment. "O dear!" exclaimed Merton, "I may never have so good a chance again.
The wounded are coming back, the dead are mourned, and the agony of hearing only that such-and-such a man is missing these are having a prodigious effect. The men I meet now say in a matter-of-fact way: "Oh, yes! we'll get 'em, of course; the only question is, how long it will take us and how many of us it will cost. But no matter, we'll get 'em."
Oakley," returned the artist, heartily. "I guess you know what Lagrange will say." "You bet I do." He whistled a low, birdlike note. In answer, a beautiful, chestnut saddle-horse came out of the chaparral, where it had not been seen by the painter. "We're going, Max," said the officer, in a matter-of-fact way.
His mind recurred to that peaceful hour, as he chatted in desultory fashion with May, but those quiet musings seemed very far away and unreal in the clear, matter-of-fact atmosphere that that charming young person created about her, even in her quieter moods.
She's a good girl an' you an' me'll hitch all right as long as you don't go to bullyin' her. I reckon that's all." "Meanin' that you'll let me hang around as long as I'm good," sneered Calumet in a dangerously soft voice. He was trying to work himself into a rage, but the effort was futile. Something in Dade's quiet, matter-of-fact voice had a dulling, cooling effect on him.
A politician and a courtier, a man of the world, a mathematician engaged in the soberest details of the science, he has given to the world, in the simplest and most natural language, a series of speculations upon the great mystery of being: detailed, matter-of-fact narratives of revelations from the spiritual world, which at once appall us by their boldness, and excite our wonder at their extraordinary method, logical accuracy, and perfect consistency.
For Galloway's figure had separated itself from the shadows at the side of his open door and had come out into the street, while Galloway was saying in a matter-of-fact way: "I'll see you home." She wanted to run and could not. She hung a moment balancing upon a high heel in indecision. Galloway stepped forward swiftly, coming to her side. "Oh, dear," the inner Florrie was saying.
I'm breathing easy so not to breathe the smell out. I never had any roses before." Her voice lowered to almost a whisper. She whispered a little laugh. "Seems as if I'd ought to be married while I have 'em! They're such beautiful roses to be married in!" And this was Stefana, their matter-of-fact, starchy little white-washer! This rapt, dreamy little face was Stefana's face!