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"She's not a bad-looking woman for her age and it's a snug little business." Mr. Burton, suppressing his choler, affected to ponder. "If 'arf a sovereign " he said, at last. "Half a fiddlestick!" said the other, impatiently. "I want ten pounds. You've just drawn your pension, and, besides, you've been a saving man all your life." "Ten pounds?" gasped the other.
He hurried toward the entrance, and then he began to ponder over the curious fact of there being a thousand persons too many at the performance. "We'll have to straighten out that ticket tangle after the show," mused Joe. "It's likely to get serious. I wonder " he went on, struck by a new thought. "I wonder if Oh, no! It couldn't be! He hasn't been around in a long while."
To this was added the more stirring, and, perhaps, the more genuine order of poets who make you feel and glow, rather than doubt and ponder.
Though my entreaty may seem to you superfluous, yet I entreat, yes, your Henriette implores you to ponder the meaning of that rule. It seems simple but, dear, it means that integrity, loyalty, honor, and courtesy are the safest and surest instruments for your success.
But read Mr. Carlyle's essay on Dr. Francia, and then ponder the history of Paraguay for these later years and the accounts of its condition in the newspapers of to-day. 'Nay, it may be, we learn from that remarkable piece, 'that the benefit of him is not even yet exhausted, even yet entirely become visible.
Rounding the ridge, the same fair view greeted her eyes, as had chased away Will's ill-temper on the preceding evening, and she sat a moment under the shadow of a broom bush to ponder, for Morva was a girl of many thoughts though her mind was perfectly uneducated, her heart and soul were alive with earnest questions.
So marriage is another good thing to look forward to. And love, that love all the verses, all the books one reads are so full of; that will come to us. They say that love is life. Well, all I want is to live. But with a grey past such as we have had, the present is good enough to ponder upon.
"And after that there was some fresh difficulty every week, while his temper, which was never a good one, got perfectly awful, until I came away. He'll go off in a fit of apoplexy or paralytic seizure when his passion breaks loose some day." Calvert furnished other particulars before he resumed his eastward journey, leaving me with much to ponder.
The two young people regarded him as then justification, and he turned their heads with his venomous talk, so that they began to ponder over things which common folk do better to leave alone. Bjerregrav came through this phase with a whole skin, but Anker paid the penalty by losing his wits.
Then did the strange perplexities which had assailed him throughout this night find expression in bitter words. He threw down a few more coins and said slowly: "These are for pity's sake, and in the name of One Whom mayhap ye will know one day. He died that ye should live! Bear that in mind and ponder on it. Mayhap ye will find the solution to that riddle.
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