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Interest, too, with its usual, silent accumulation, swelled every debt; and I have found several instances among his accounts where the interest upon a small sum had been suffered to increase till it outgrew the principal; "minima pars ipsa puella sui." Notwithstanding all this, however, his debts were by no means so considerable as has been supposed.
I began to smile at Minima, and to answer her childish prattle, with none of the feeling of utter weariness which had at first prostrated me. "Are we going to stay here forever and ever?" she asked me, one day, when I felt that the solitary peace of my own chamber was growing too monotonous for me. "Should you like to stay, Minima?" I inquired in reply.
Averages of masses have been studied more than averages of maxima and minima. We know from the Registrar-General's Reports, that a certain number of children say from one to two dozen die every year in England from drinking hot water out of spouts of teakettles. We know, that, among suicides, women and men past a certain age almost never use fire-arms.
I wonder how, in their canons of beauty, the Latins could possibly have inscribed Frons minima, underrating the forehead, the sublimest feature in the human face, the great distinction between our countenance and that of our Simian prototypes. In this woman I thought it was, perhaps, her chief attraction. Round the temples and summit her light hair lay in thick loose curls.
Such a thin, stunted little woman, precociously learned in trouble! Yet she nestled in my arms like a true child, and a tear or two rolled down her cheeks, as if from very contentment. "Nobody has nursed me like this since mother died," she said. "I'm Mary; but father always called me Minima, because I was the least in the house.
It as little more than twelve months since I had started from the same station on the same route; but there was no Tardif at hand now. As I went into the ticket-office, Minima caught me by the dress and whispered earnestly into my ear. "We're not to travel first-class," she said; "it costs too much. Mrs.
At first Minima, and I took long walks together into the country surrounding Noireau, a beautiful country, even in November. Once out of the vapor lying in the valley, at the bottom of which the town was built, the atmosphere showed itself as exquisitely clear, with no smoke in it, except the fine blue smoke of wood-fire.
I must register the packet at a post-office on our way to the station, and it could not fail to reach him. This business settled, I returned to the child, who was sitting, as I had so often, done, gazing pensively into the fire. Was she to be a sort of miniature copy of myself? "Come, Minima," I said, "we must be thinking of tea. Which would you like best, buns, or cake, or bread-and-butter?
White to begin with, the star soon turned deep red, and its redness was visibly intensified at each of its recurring minima of light. Blanching, however, ensued upon the development of its nebulous proclivities; and its surviving rays are of a steely hue. All the more important investigations of Nova Persei were conducted by photographic means.
Dobrée could not help me, Tardif would take Minima into his house for a time, and the child could not have a happier home. I could count upon my good Tardif doing that. These plans were taking shape in my brain, when I heard a voice calling softly under the window. I opened the casement, and, leaning out, saw the welcome face of Rosalie, the milk-woman.
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