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He was greatly staggered, however, when he discovered that his young master, after the affair at the harvest- home, had contrived to make his peace at the rectory. "I must bide my time," he said to himself; "but I'll circumscribe 'em yet, as sure as my name's Juniper Graves." So he laid himself out in every possible way to please Frank, and to make himself essential to his comforts and pleasures.
I always thought somebody like you'd come along some day, just like this, and then it just seemed foolish to expect it. But look here. I told you a story, right off. My name's not Anita it's Annie. I took to pretending it's Anita because it does seem sort of silly, but I got to tell you because I saw it in the movies, and it seemed sort of cute and different, and Annie's such a plain, common name.
His head was semi-bald. Jock knew him to be thirty. Jock fixed his eye on the semi-bald spot and spoke. "My name's McChesney," he began. "I wrote you three days ago; you probably will remember. You replied, asking me to call, and I " "Minute," exploded the man at the desk, still absorbed. Jock faltered, stopped. The man at the desk did not look up.
The treating of a name as excluding from the fact named what the name's definition fails positively to include, is what I call 'vicious intellectualism. Later I shall have more to say about this intellectualism, but that Lotze's argument is tainted by it I hardly think we can deny. I almost feel as if I should apologize for criticising such subtle arguments in rapid lectures of this kind.
"But why call him anything?" Mabel said. "His name's Millet." Her annoyance caused her voice to squeak. "Why call him anything?" Sabre laughed. "Well, you know how a ridiculous thing like that comes into your head and you can't get rid of it. You know the way." Mabel declared she was sure she did not know the way. "They don't come into my head.
"No," said Kenny. "I was just thinking of a man I know. Name's Whitaker." Thus May came with a warm wind of spice and fresh misgivings furrowed the doctor's brow. "Now that the windows are opened so much," he fretted, "the rumble of that quarry is inferno. The blasts bother him?" "He jumps," said Joan. "I thought so. He must have peace and quiet. If Mr.
He took up his quarters at one of the farm-houses among the mountains, paid his hostess regularly for the simple accommodations she could afford him, and, before three months passed, had established his reputation and, without making the slightest apparent effort, had gathered about him a large circle of friends and admirers. "His name's D'Willerby," Mrs.
"He'll be hanged, as sure as my name's Dennis!" vociferated O'Shaughnessy, with an energy that made the major jump from his chair. "Picton will hang him!" "I'm not afraid," said Monsoon; "they know me so well. Lord bless you, Beresford couldn't get on without me!" "Well, Major," said I, "in any case, you certainly take no gloomy nor desponding view of your case." "Not I, boy.
He knows he put rue where I was sure to sin; he will not condemn me because I have sinned; he leaves me to do that myself. He will condemn me only if I do not turn away from sin, for he has made me able to turn from it, and I do." "He will forgive sin only for Christ's sake." "He forgives it for his own name's sake, his own love's sake.
"I thank God I haven't such a cold heart as you." "And I thank God I'm not a romantic idiot. But your name's not Thekla for nothing I suppose." "My name's as good as yours. And I won't be looked down on because my father was once a German." "'Mr. Kayser, do you vant to buy a dawg?" hummed Miss Snodgrass. "Girls, girls!" admonished Miss Chapman. "How you two do bicker. There, that's Mrs.
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