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Canst thou carry that." I said I could, but I thought that there was an ill lie behind his words. "Hist, good lad, what is thy name?" said he. "Nigel de Bessin, nephew of the Vicomte of St. Sauveur," I answered. He pondered and gazed at me curiously. "Ay, well I knew thy grandsire, the old vicomte," said he. "And thine uncle has had of me other gifts than shriving."
The Englishman had not stepped above the horizon, and the telegrams to the four ends of the world returned unanswered. Thus, the chancellor stood alone; the two main props were gone from under. As he tossed on his pillows he pondered over the apparent reticence and indifference of the archbishop. All was still in the vicinity of the palaces. Sentinels paced noiselessly within the enclosures.
Neither the President nor his many friends, however, were disturbed by these direful predictions of disaster; and as the people pondered the President's letter of acceptance of Mr. Garrison's resignation, wherein he showed his own mind was open to the best method of preparing the country and that Mr.
But as he awkwardly stretched his hand toward her fragile, immaculate fingers, she said brightly, "Do give me a cigarette. Would you think poor Tanis was dreadfully naughty if she smoked?" "Lord, no! I like it!" He had often and weightily pondered flappers smoking in Zenith restaurants, but he knew only one woman who smoked Mrs. Sam Doppelbrau, his flighty neighbor.
The wind was too cold for constitutionals, and we piled on all our clothes and sat on our knapsacks in the bar-room for there was no fire and talked wistfully of sausages, Yorkshire Relish and underdone beefsteaks. We had much time for meditation, and pondered over the downfall of Serbia.
And this was the message he brought back: "Your lord and master pondered as he stood by his horse, how his sons would fare when he was dead. Tell him that war and discord they shall have, but kings they will all be." When the King heard the prophecy he was troubled in mind, and called his sons and all his great knights to a council at which he pleaded with them to keep the peace.
"It must have seemed another planet," the Duchess pondered. "The stillness of huge unbroken moors no war no khaki in sight utter peace and remoteness. A girl brought back to life by pure love, drawing a spirit out of the unknown to her side on earth." "She is like a spirit herself but that she remains Robin in an extraordinary new blooming." "Yes, she remains Robin."
These two salons communicated by means of certain mixed individuals with the house of Cormon, and vice-versa; but the Cormon establishment sat severely in judgment on the two other camps. The luxury of their dinners was criticised; the ices at their balls were pondered; the behavior of the women, the dresses, and "novelties" there produced were discussed and disapproved.
Wonderful problems they pondered over, and they used to write long arguments in Latin for or against propositions which came nowhere within the domain of fact. That scholarship stood related to reality, and that it must find its end and justification in action was no part of the philosophy of those times.
For, in addition to the defences which we already have, there will soon be added consuls of consummate prudence, and virtue, and concord, who have already deliberated and pondered for many months on the freedom of the Roman people.
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