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Those eyes may have goggled from beneath the weeds at Napoleon's jack-boots: they have seen Frederick's lean shanks reflected in their pool; and perhaps Monsieur de Voltaire has fed them and now, for a crumb of biscuit they will fight, push, hustle, rob, squabble, gobble, relapsing into their tranquillity when the ignoble struggle is over. Sans souci, indeed!
Then turning to the women, he made such a communication of the other's gratitude as he deemed most suited to the capacities of his listeners. The head of Munro had already sunk upon his chest, and he was again fast relapsing into melancholy, when the young Frenchman before named ventured to touch him lightly on the elbow.
'Thinking for themselves has been fatal to a good many, said Louis, relapsing into meditation 'this poor Paris among the rest, I fancy. What a dawn for a Sunday morning! How cold the lights look, and how yellow the gas burns. We may think of home, and be thankful! and kneeling with one knee on a chair, he leant against the shutter, gazing out and musing aloud.
"Just so," commented Mitchell, relapsing into a pregnant silence. It was evident that he was intently considering some difficult question. Presently he looked up and said: "I knew Menzies very well in my younger days.
"One word," Kendrick begged, relapsing for a moment into his ordinary manner as he touched Wingate on the shoulder. "Dredlinton is here, rather drunk and very quarrelsome. I heard him telling some one about having found you dining alone with his wife to-night. Phipps was listening. Look at him, as black as a thundercloud! Keep your head if Dredlinton gets troublesome."
Most of all, it is a battle-ground yet to be, whereon perhaps there shall be waged a conflict between white and black. Always, too, it will be the battle-ground between civilized man and the relapsing savagery of nature; between man and the wilderness; between the white race and great Messasebe, Father of the Waters. Father Messasebe is, after all, but weakly bound to the ways of commerce.
Shairp, relapsing into the tears she had been shedding for the last two hours or more. "Is it possible that ye've heard naething ava? The laird Netherglen himsel' oor maister and have you heard naething aboot him as you cam doun by the muir? I'd hae thocht shame to let you gang hame unkent, if I had been Jenny Burns at the lodge." "I did not come that way," said Hugo, impatiently.
The truth seems to be, that a belief in omens and prodigies was again become prevalent, as the people were evidently relapsing into pristine barbarity, ignorance being ever the proper soil for a harvest of imposture. Questions for Examination. What advantages did Agricola gain in Britain? How did Domitian receive the account of Agricola's success? In what way did the emperor treat him?
This, indeed, is the most shining part of the king's character; and he seems to have been sensible of it; for he was fond of dropping the formality of state, and of relapsing every moment into the companion. In the duties of private life, his conduct, though not free from exception, was, in the main, laudable.
"And," Forrest concluded, relapsing into his natural voice and enunciation, having reached the limit of extemporization, "and if you think old, sweet, blue-eyed Solomon has anything on me in singing the Song of Songs, just put your names down for the subscription edition of my Song of Songs." It was Mrs.
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