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Taggett had meditated his line of action, and had decided that the most merciful course was brusquely to charge young Shackford with the crime, and allow Mr. Slocum to sustain himself for a while with the indignant disbelief which would be natural to him, situated as he was. He would then in a manner be prepared for the revelations which, if suddenly presented, would crush him. If Mr.
Still less did he inquire who hated him or meditated his assassination. Like every genuine statesman he served not the people for reward not even for the reward of their love but sacrificed the favour of his contemporaries for the blessing of posterity, and above all for the permission to save and renew his nation. Caesar's Work
After their arrival they promptly proceeded to segregate themselves from their fellow-boarders. The first day they fished a little, talked, read, slept, meditated, and smoked that is, Mr. Baker did, enough for two; and Florence assisted by rolling cigarettes when the bowl of the meerschaum grew uncomfortably hot. The next day they repeated the programme, and also the next, and the next.
His explanation was, that a vessel was lying at the wharf about to sail in the morning, and the youth, who had long meditated evasion, thought it a good opportunity, and stepped on board, after leaving the medicine at the proper door. I spent some weeks at Dr. G.'s after the occurrence; and very doleful we used to be about it.
The pines growing down to the water's edge will show newly as in the glare of a conflagration; and as he floats under the willows with his light, the song-sparrow will often wake on her perch, and sing that strain at midnight, which she had meditated for the morning.
I will grant you your life if you ask pardon for the crime you meditated, and for which you ought to be sorry. 'I want no pardon.
It was midnight, and the moon rode clear and high in heaven, when Kenneth of Scotland stood upon his watch on Saint George's Mount, beside the banner of England, a solitary sentinel, to protect the emblem of that nation against the insults which might be meditated among the thousands whom Richard's pride had made his enemies.
Over the great river yonder is the Roman post of Tyras; but that is a long day's journey from here, and they have never disturbed my meditations." "On what do you meditate, brother Paul?" "At first I meditated on many sacred mysteries; but now, for twenty years, I have brooded continually on the nature of the Logos. What is your view upon that vital matter, brother Simon?"
Joy replied ecstatically, regarding the slim little green and silver figure in the glass. "It needs to be shorter," meditated Phyllis aloud, and fell to pinning it up to the proper shortness. Joy continued to look at it rapturously.
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