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Remained only to deliberate whether this sop to the conventions should be accepted as sufficient. "At least," as Mrs. Ashmeade sagely observed, "we can combine vituperation with common-sense, and remember it is not the first time a Musgrave has figured in an entanglement of the sort. A lecherous race! proverbial flutterers of petticoats! His surname convicts the man unheard and almost excuses him.
So when the hair was dry enough to manage, they marched me into Gladys' room the only one of the three capable of accommodating three of us and turned the mirrors to the wall. I protested at that. I wanted to see my progress under their skilful fingers. "'No, said Phyllis sagely. 'It looks horrible while it is going on.
As Wilson sagely remarks, "For except men finde delite, they will not long abide: delite them and winne them." Cicero expressed in memorable phrase the relationship between proof and pleasure as instruments to persuasion and added a third element. The teaching is the appeal to the intellect of the hearer by means of proof. The pleasure is afforded by a euphonious style, and by fables and stories.
"He's forgettin' it better every day, Albert," she said. "I do declare I never believed Capt'n Lote Snow could forget it the way he's doin'. And you well, you've forgot a whole lot, too. Memory's a good thing, the land knows," she added, sagely, "but a nice healthy forgetery is worth consider'ble some times and in some cases."
"Seer Marcous, let us go to the little horses." She has a consuming passion for petits chevaux. I speak sagely of the evils of gambling. She laughs. I weakly take lower ground. "What is the good? You have no money." "Oh-h! But only two francs," she says, holding out her hand. "Not one. Yesterday you lost." "But to-day I shall win. I want to give you something I saw in a shop.
They rejoined him; and the baskets being now sufficiently heavy, and arms pretty well tired, they left the further riches of the pine woods unexplored, and walked sagely homewards. At the brow of the table-land, Mr. Olmney left them to take a shorter cut to the high road, having a visit to make which the shortening day warned him not to defer.
After those days saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people; and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, saying know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sins no more. Upon this passage the author of the Epistle observes in that he saith a new covenant, he hath made the first old; and he sagely concludes now that which decayeth, and waxeth old, is ready to vanish away!! and takes the quotation to be a prophecy of the abolition of the old law, and the introduction of the Gospel Dispensation.
The next morning he follows her again, shadows her to Sir ... to this gentleman's rooms, and there, as we know, contrived by a trick to see to whom she had a letter." "But why did he not attempt to get the letter away from her as soon as she arrived? Miss Trevert never suspected Jeekes. She might have shown him the letter if he'd asked her for it ..." The detective shook his head sagely.
Here, for sheer want of breath, Timothy's narrative ended, but Mary having a vivid imagination, allowed it full play then and prophesied, sagely and happily: "Well, then, all of ye listen, till I tell ye how 'twill be.
" But you never know," thought experienced Bingo sagely, even as, in his heavy fashion, he went pounding on: "The Chief's continuin' the Work of Pacification, and acceptin' the surrender of arms any date of manufacture you like between the chassepot of 1870 and the leather-breeched firelock of Oliver Cromwell's time.
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