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It's always treated me with extreme loyalty and respect, so why the deuce should I turn upon the poor thing and assassinate it?" "See here, Rumsey," said Simmy Dodge sagely, "if I were in your place I'd have a perfectly sound tooth pulled some time, just to keep it from aching when you're an old man. Or you might have your left leg amputated so that it couldn't be crushed in a railroad accident.
That idea seemed to suit everybody. "I like that colour," remarked Elsie Dinsmore sagely, "but I shall be particular about having very handsome material." "It shall be handsome enough to accord well with the others," said her mother with an amused laugh. "I think straw colour becomes me," remarked Maud; "so that is what I shall wear, if the rest of the party approve."
"Yes, and then you wouldn't have her at all," he retorted. "Get it through your head that this whole thing is distasteful to Miss Burton. It's bad enough as it is, without asking her to do a diving Venus." "She won't ever be an actor," commented Mr. Lewis, sagely, "but what the hell's the difference? It's the name that's going to carry this act and it's going to be a knock-out."
The questions were cases of quarrels between the villagers, and Sancho answered each one of them so sagely that every one gaped in wonder, for, judging by his appearance and the way he talked, they had thought their governor a fool. Instead of thinking thus, they now began to admire him and to consider themselves lucky and blessed by having him in their midst.
"Well, don't get lost again, that's all," said Cyril sagely. "Oh no, we shall be back very soon," answered Violet, but she felt instinctively that the "very soon" in time might measure an eternity of emotion. Need we say that Kennedy and Violet had, since that night of wild adventure, loved each other, hour by hour, with deeper affection?
Farnsworth, but all the same, look at those eyes, now." Patty looked, but it seemed to her that the blue eyes drooped from natural weariness, and assuring herself that no bones were broken or out of place, she drew a long sigh of relief and told Winnie to put Fleurette to bed as usual. The nurse shook her head sagely, but said no more of her fears.
Voltaire had no objection to fable if it were symbolic of truth; and here is fable, which, according to its author, is symbolic of the little regarded truth, that our pride rests mainly on our ignorance, for, as he sagely says, 'the good mouse knew not that there are also winged cats. If she had her speculations concerning the beneficence of Deity would have been less orthodox, mayhap, but decidedly more rational.
Suddenly the music took on a louder tone arid several men with clashing cymbals joined in. The auditors, too, fell flat on their faces and Billy and Lathrop, on the former's suggestion, did the same. "Not to do as the others are doing might cost us our heads," sagely remarked the diplomatic Billy, "and I need mine in my business."
"Oh, quite well! only a trifle tired with her journey, and fluttering- like," Mrs. Berry replied to Ripton alone. The lover had flown aloft. The wise woman sagely ushered Ripton into her own private parlour, there to wait till he was wanted. "In all cases where two have joined to commit an offence, punish one of the two lightly," is the dictum of The Pilgrim's's Scrip.
"The leaders ought to act in concert, Dan. If they don't, their soldiers are licked afore they go into battle," remarked the old frontiersman, sagely. "What Texas needs most of all is one first-class leader, whom all obey." And in this speech Stover came very near to telling the exact truth.
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