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"Took Mary a long time to write," he said, with a sleepy chuckle, as the last vestige disappeared of the laboriously constructed missive which Lady Blore had sat up half the previous night, with gold-rimmed pince-nez on Roman nose to copy out by her bedroom candle, and had sent to pave the way before her strong destructive feet. The footman came in.
And the postman was an event, for he came not oftener than once in three months, this to fetch a long, official envelope that had to do with Grandpa's pension. But the pension was not due again for several weeks. So what did the postman have to leave? Bursting with curiosity, excitement and importance, Johnnie very nearly broke his neck between his own door and the brick pave.
He has planned and schemed to get that old piece of English property into his hands for years and years, in fact, ever since it was willed to Hugh Mainwaring at the time his brother was disinherited, and the name he gave to his son was the first stone laid to pave the way to this coveted fortune." "I see. Pardon me, Miss Carleton; but you just now alluded to Hugh Mainwaring's brother.
I feel the hour is now ripe for the adoption of preliminary measures designed to pave the way for the simultaneous erection during Ridván of 1956 of three pillars of the future Universal House of Justice in the North, the South and the very heart of this long dormant continent.
At 4.30 I ordered a general assault; the 88th Brigade to be thrown in on the top of the 87th; the New Zealand Brigade in support; the French to conform. Our gunners had put more than they could afford into the bombardment and had very little wherewith to pave the way. By the 4th instant I had seen danger-point drawing near and now it was on us.
"Anything is better than this infernal walk over this pavé always. Let's hop in." They stopped the man, who asked where to drive to. "Let's go to the Bretagne first and get a drink," said Pennell. "Right," said Peter "any old thing. Hôtel de la Bretagne," he called to the driver. They set off at some sort of a pace, and Pennell leaned back with a laugh. "It's a funny old world, Graham," he said.
All this reinforces the statement which opens this chapter: The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind. These considerations pave the way for our second conclusion.
If you can imagine what the Mansion House crossing would be like if called upon to sustain its midday traffic at midnight the Mansion House crossing entirely unilluminated, paved with twelve inches of liquid mud, intersected by narrow strips of pavé, and liberally pitted with "crump-holes" you may derive some faint idea of the state of things at a busy road-junction lying behind the trenches.
The doctor and purser, who were doubtlessly in the secret, wore each a look of the most perplexing gravity the captain one of triumphant mischief; the rest of us, one of the most unfeigned wonder. "If," spluttered out Captain Reud, see-sawing over the yet concealed thing. "If, Mr Paviour, you can pave your way down a river "
Bring out the good points of the world in strong relief. Tell every piquant and pleasant and funny story you call think of. Show him that you clearly apprehend that all this warfare means peace, and that a dastardly peace would pave the way for speedy, incessant, and more appalling warfare. Help him to bear his burdens by showing him how elastic you are under yours.
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