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Leavenworth being a very methodical man and accustomed to regulate his own life and that of those about him with almost mathematical precision." "You say you were accustomed to write at his dictation evenings? Did you do this as usual last evening?" "I did, sir." "What can you tell us of his manner and appearance at the time? Were they in any way unusual?" A frown crossed the secretary's brow.

The serjeant was admitted, and he told his story with military precision. "This has a suspicious air, Joyce," observed the captain, after musing a little; "to me it seems like an attempt to induce us to follow, and to draw us into an ambuscade." "It may be that, your honour; or, it may be a good honest retreat. Two prisoners is a considerable exploit for savages to achieve.

For that we must turn to Parsifal. In Tristan there are no "meanings" none save the very plain meaning of the drama and the meaning of the music, which is plainer still. It seems to me desirable in this way to clear off misunderstandings and to indicate with precision my point of view.

"An' I thought it was tracts! An' yet some'ow I didn't." Mr. Pyecroft nodded his head wonderingly. "Our old man was quite right so was 'Op so was I. 'Ere, Glass!" He kicked the Marine. "Here's our Antonio 'as written a impromptu book! He was a spy all right." The Red Marine turned slightly, speaking with the awful precision of the half-drunk.

I have yet to learn that any one heard him laugh aloud, which pastime he has called, with certainly a familiar precision that indicates personal experience, a "pleasant spasm," a "muscular irritation." In maturer years I believed that his smile brought refreshment, encouragement, and waves of virtue to those who saw it.

Beth set herself accordingly, and when the day came she led the solo and duet with the precision of a musical box, but with such an expenditure of nerve-power that she was prostrated by the effort. She was considered quite a musician at St. Catherine's, but by this time the dire method of teaching had had its effect.

They had not been in Singapore long enough to become acquainted with the Malay language or character, but they knew their duty, and I trusted to their military training rather than to my Malay's superior knowledge for our safety during the night. I found out later that the cunning in Baboo's small brown finger was worth all the precision and drill in the Sikh sergeant's great body.

She has told us that she rides straight and that she doesn't funk her fences; but she has not told us what sort of country she is going to ride over, nor where the fences are, not what Hell-for-leather and Neck-or-nothing means. "We want meaning; we want clearness and precision. We have not been given it yet. "I would let all this pass if Miss Blackadder were not your colour-sergeant.

The weapon has hardly any trajectory up to one thousand yards, but, in spite of its precision, it is as useless in the hands of a guerrilla or the average Spanish soldier as a bow and arrow would be. The fact that when the Spaniards say "within gun fire of the forts" they mean within one hundred and fifty yards of them shows how they estimate their own skill.

And Flack crowded us out of number two with a bright little paper on the "Humours of Cricket," and the Head himself was profusely thoughtful all over the editorial under the heading of "The School Chapel; and How it Seems to an Old Boy." Britten and I found it difficult to express to each other with any grace or precision what we felt about that magazine.