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When one stops to consider that this was the first time a question had been put directly to the Prince and one that he could understand, at that we may be inclined to overlook his reply, but we cannot answer for certain members of the cabinet. Unconsciously, the boy in knickers had uttered a truth that no one else had dared to voice.
And so I came to understand a little better the value of a height even so low and insignificant as Vimy Ridge in that flat country. While the Germans held it they could overlook all our positions, and all the advantage of natural placing had been to them. Now, thanks to the Canadians, it was our turn, and we were looking down. Weel, I was under fire. There was no doubt about it.
And one must not overlook the definite promise that if a man seeks virtue first, even at the cost of earthly possessions and comforts, he will find that they will be added as well.
Many of the planters had no negroes to assist them in raising provisions for their families, and these persons who had negroes, could not be spared to overlook them, so that the plantations were left uncultivated, and the produce of the year was trifling and inconsiderable.
This they could have found by ascending to the higher ranges of the great snowy mountains that overlook Nepaul; but as they knew they should also encounter this species near the sources of the Ganges, and as they were desirous of visiting that remarkable locality, they continued on westward through Nepaul and Delhi, arriving at the health station of Mussoorie, in the beautiful valley of the Dehra Doon.
Moreover, in the list of Confederate casualties only thirty-one men were put down as missing. It is true that Jackson need not have retreated so far as Gordonsville. He might have halted behind the Rapidan, where the bluffs on the south bank overlook the level country to the north. That Pope, had he been left to his own judgment, would have crossed the Rapidan is certain.
Acton, as he crossed out the low figures under the word "Behavior," and put the much-desired 100 there. "But I did break the rule, sir," said Jack, though his face glowed with pleasure, for Mamma was looking on. "I overlook that as I should your breaking into my house if you saw it was on fire. You ran to save a friend, and I wish I could tell those fellows why you were there.
However, she had had permission from the registrar, a fact that Miss Wharton couldn't overlook. Then Miss Wharton sent for me. She said the sale was a disgrace to Overton, and that she was amazed to think you allowed such a proceeding.
George had a cigar in his mouth, and his exact words were, 'Wottabow Hursday? I had some of the wood pavement in my eye, and my exact words were therefore excusable." "And now he's forgotten us both." "On the contrary, he's probably remembered." "And is consequently afraid to come himself?" "Exactly. Well, we couldn't very well overlook the insult, could we?" "It might be wiped out in paint."
There was, therefore, no effective upper-class opinion that would overlook evidences of possible inexpensiveness in the management of grounds; and there was consequently no appreciable divergence between the leisure-class and the lower middle-class ideal in the physiognomy of pleasure grounds. Both classes equally constructed their ideals with the fear of pecuniary disrepute before their eyes.
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