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'Lord safe us, said the landlady; 'I must go see what he would have for supper; that I should set him down here! 'O, he likes that all the better, mother. You never saw a plainer creature in your life than our old Colonel; and yet he has a spice of the devil in him too.
If this man had wanted to bring about a life-long severance between himself and his wife, to put her away somewhere, to keep her hidden from the eyes of the world in plainer words, to get rid of her might not this pretence of losing her, this affectation of distress at her loss, be a safe way of accomplishing his purpose? Who else was interested in doing her any wrong?
Within, no article of luxury was to be seen. A few plain and indispensable objects were all which the tent contained. The covering of the commander-in-chief was an ordinary army blanket, and his fare was plainer, perhaps, than that of the majority of his officers and men. This was the result of an utter indifference, in Lee, to personal convenience or indulgence.
It had been agreed that if attacked they were to run each one his own way. In their desperate case, disunion was strength. At intervals, on their left, gleamed the lights of the constables' stations, and as they stumbled onward they heard plainer and more plainly the hoarse murmur of the sea, beyond which was liberty or death.
For, in fact, there is no plainer piece of English extant, when one comes to look at it. Looking at it never so obliquely, with never so small a fraction of an eye, one cannot help seeing it.
But this idea of value was wholly intuitive with Adam Smith, and society does not change its habits upon the strength of intuitions; it decides only upon the authority of facts. The antinomy had to be expressed in a plainer and clearer manner: J. B. Say was its principal interpreter.
The secrets that have come down to me through generations of my Cashmere ancestors, I tell only to a chosen few those born under the sign of Dejellum Brava. "The stranger showing me the sign written plainer than I have ever seen it in the palm of his hand, I at once consented, and I had no sooner done so than he vanished.
''And it over to me, Matthew; let's see if I can make it any plainer for you, said his brother-in-law, persuaded that to his powerful mind few things could long remain a mystery. What have you been jangling your bells about, eh, Matthew? 'I think they're mad, said poor Mr. Ashburn; 'the bells in this house are all right, I think, my dear?
In the next place, I went in to fetch my perspective-glass, to see what I could make of them; and having taken the ladder out, I climbed up to the top of the hill, as I used to do when I was apprehensive of any thing, and to take my view the plainer, without being discovered.
It is at once "the Way, the Truth, and the Life": not the Life only, or the Truth only, but also the Way by which to reach them. Can words be plainer?
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