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"It's strange I wasn't notified," said Roy. "It's probably an oversight. Ill go along with you." Together they crossed the river to the less frequented part of town and knocked at the door of a large, unlighted warehouse, flanked by a high board fence.
"That was an oversight, certainly," replied the count; "but tell me, does the Count of Morcerf never visit the Opera? I have been looking for him, but without success." "He will be here to-night." "In what part of the house?" "In the baroness's box, I believe." "That charming young woman with her is her daughter?" "Yes." "I congratulate you." Morcerf smiled.
Let me see: have I thought of everything, for in such affairs one oversight He is a Catholic, therefore can contract a legal marriage under the Proclamations it was lucky I remembered that point of law, though it nearly cost us all our lives and the priest, I can lay my hands on him, a discreet man, who won't hear if the lady says No, but filled beyond a question with the power and virtue of his holy office.
A few minutes ago in speaking of the deduction of the orthodox formulae for relative motion I said that they followed as an immediate deduction from the assumption of absolute points in absolute space. This reference to absolute space was not an oversight. I know that the doctrine of the relativity of space at present holds the field both in science and philosophy.
Dionysia spoke all this aloud, so loud that it seemed she wanted all the earth to hear what she was saying. "Ah! let me reassure you by a single word, madam," said M. Folgat. "We have not yet come to that. The sentence is not final." The Marquis de Boiscoran and M. de Chandore started. "What do you mean?" "An oversight which M. Galpin has committed makes the whole proceeding null and void.
But every evening after tea, Janice always walked to a particular window and, opening the shutter, looked out for a moment, as if to see what the night promised, before she took her seat at her tambour frame or sewing. Sometimes one of her parents called attention to the fact that she had not quite closed the shutters again, and she always remedied the oversight at once.
Instead of being witty like Appleton he was brilliantly encyclopaedic; and they both carried their statements to the verge of credibility. Doctor Howe organized the blind asylum so that it almost ran itself without his oversight, and as always happens in such cases he was idolized by those who were under his direction.
His face bore the marks of deep suffering, and gave silent witness to the story of his terrible captivity in the hands of the Turcomans. His incarceration at Barnaool was referred to as an "unfortunate oversight." Escaping from barbarian slavery he fell into a civilized prison, and must have considered Christian kindness more fanciful than real.
Such was ardent little Bonaventure; and none of the Gradnego weddings ever got quite through its ceremony without his big blue eyes being found full of tears tears of mingled anger and desolation because by some unpardonable oversight he and Zoséphine were still left unmarried.
Though such a request struck me as decidedly cool in view of his own recent discourtesies to me there alike as a publisher and as a stockholder in the Yellow Jacket mine, and though it seemed to me more like a summons than the courteous request by one gentleman to another for a favor, hoping that some conference with Sharon looking to the betterment of mining matters in Nevada might arise from it, I felt strongly inclined to overlook what possibly was simply an oversight in courtesy.
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