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"I only wish I could see you walking up Fifth Avenue in them!" rhapsodised the proprietor. "You'll give 'em a treat! What you going to do with 'em? Carry 'em under your arm?" Archie shuddered strongly. "Well, then, I can send 'em for you anywhere you like. It's all the same to me. Where'll I send 'em?" Archie meditated. The future was black enough as it was.
The better part of his life had been passed under arms; the delicate sensuality of Rome was foreign to him. It was there that Domitian had lived. It were interesting to have watched that young man killing flies by the hour, while he meditated on the atrocities he was to commit atrocities so numberless and needless that in the red halls of the Caesars he has left a portrait which is unique.
Twenty miles uphill in front of me, Jesus meditated, with jeers and scoffings at the end of the journey, of which I have had plenty; and he began to walk quickly and to look round the hills in search of pasture for a flock, for these hills were but faintly known to him.
Having read it over again, he meditated a little, exclaiming several times emphatically, "My darling Isobel," and then he read bits of it here and there; having done which, he read the other bits, and so got through it again. As the letter was a pretty long one, it took him a considerable time to do all this.
With these words Napoleon embarked, and on the 16th of October Paris received him with open arms. That night the members of the Directory came down with chills and fever. "There is no question about my greatness now," said Napoleon, as he meditated upon his position.
The eastern and southern portion of the Hapsburg domains were not more homogeneous than the west and north. The Slavs inhabiting Carniola, Carinthia, Istria, Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia, and Servia had long meditated upon the possibility of a united Slavic kingdom in the south. Both the Servians and Croatians now revolted against Hungary.
In the full confidence that the approaching death of Constantius would leave him sole master of the Roman world, we are assured that he had arranged in his mind a long succession of future princes, and that he meditated his own retreat from public life, after he should have accomplished a glorious reign of about twenty years.
He had had his mind full for days of the most tender sentiments and prettily turned phrases, but the turmoil of the last hour, the vital value of every moment to Jack's plans, left him no time to compose the poem he had meditated so long.
It was deemed necessary to remove this illustrious man, not because he was personally obnoxious, but because he was the leader of the Protestant party. It is said that as the fatal hour approached to give the signal for the meditated massacre, Aug. 24, 1572, the King appeared irresolute and disheartened.
"By Jove, we ought to have insisted on her doing it from the first," he told Tiddy, his lieutenant, under his breath. "I could have gotten twice as much work out of 'em. "Who'd have broken the news to Cousin?" he wanted to know. Clarence eyed him with the detached interest that was his, and meditated with a certain amusement on the changeableness of college boys.
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