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"I believe that this woman is a mulatto, but that is a long way from proving it. Still, I hope that by using the portrait parle and other things we may be able to draw the loose threads together into a net that will catch her providing, of course, that she ought to be caught." He had finished making copies of the portrait parle and had called for a cheque for the lunch.
The feeling, instead of being one of pity for the inferior workmen, should be one of congratulation and rejoicing that many first-class men who through unfortunate circumstances had never had the opportunity of proving their worth at last were given the chance to earn high wages and become prosperous.
Upon her proving leaky, he put in to Plymouth, where, as his mission was urgent, he was directed to take charge of a sloop named the Albany, then lying at anchor near by, and to proceed in her.
Already in Glanvill's time the usual modes of proving a debt were by the duel or by writing. /2/ A hundred years later Bracton shows that the secta had degenerated to the retainers and household of the party, and he says that their oath raises but a slight presumption. /3/
Gascoigne, like Raleigh, knew Lord Grey of Wilton, and most men about town too; and had been a soldier abroad, like Raleigh, probably with him. It seems to have been the fashion for young idlers to lodge among the Templars; indeed, toward the end of the century, they had to be cleared out, as crowding the wigs and gowns too much; and perhaps proving noisy neighbours, as Raleigh may have done.
It is true, my courage has been shaken by these incredible, miraculous, overwhelming coincidences. I am overcome, because I feel the impossibility of proving my innocence. But I do not despair. My honour and my life are in the hands of God. At this very hour when to you I appear lost, for I in no way deceive myself, sir, I do not despair of a complete justification. I await confidently."
Once in conversation Whistler said: "Yes, I have many friends, and am grateful to them; but those whom I most love are my enemies not in a Biblical sense, oh, no, but because they keep one always busy, always up to the mark, either fighting them or proving them idiots." Whistler was very particular about the spelling of his rather long and complicated group of names.
The Squire eyed this fanciful exhibition with great interest and delight, and gave me a full account of its origin, which he traced to the times when the Romans held possession of the island; plainly proving that this was a lineal descendant of the sword-dance of the ancients.
My client went to Lamartine's house; and he found in him not only a man who encouraged him, but who said to him: "You have made the best book I have read in twenty years." In a word, his praise was such that, in his modesty, my client scarcely liked to repeat it to me. Lamartine proved to him that he had read each number, proving it most graciously by repeating entire pages from them.
The ladders proving insufficient the tollenos were brought into requisition, instruments consisting of a long beam set transversely upon another, and bearing at its extremity a quadrangular basket which would hold thirty foot-soldiers with their weapons. Matho wished to ascend in the first that was ready. Spendius stopped him.
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