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"Perhaps," suggested Octavia sagely, "she thinks, that, if you see me often enough, you will get sick of me, and it will be a lesson to you." "The more I see of you," answered Lucia with a serious little air, "the fonder I am of you. I understand you better. You are not at all like what I thought you at first, Octavia." "But I don't know that there's much to understand in me."
Duff Salter put on his hat, took his stick, and drew the curtains down. Mike was sitting at the writing table arranging some models of vessels and steam tugs as his employer turned at the doorway and looked back, and, with a countenance more waggish than exasperated, Duff Salter shook his cane at the unobservant Irishman, and sagely gestured with his head.
"Cyan't do that more'n once," observed the outlaw, taking a long breath. "They don't want her more'n once," replied Alfred, sagely. The men tried to take score. This was not easy. Out of the hundred and twelve cartridges with which they had started the fight, there remained sixty-eight. That meant they had expended thirty-nine in the last charge alone.
"Don't hog everything!" as Murdock sagely put it. "Let the other fellow have the small end of the trough, and as long as he ain't hungry, he won't squeal." With equal sternness he repressed Billy's fancy for fast horses and Mrs. Billy's taste for green velvet and diamonds. "It don't look well on a salary of eighteen hundred," he said.
Hence, therefore, wives who are ambitious for their lords have often the discretion to conceal their mood. They may rule with a hand of iron, but the hand is sagely concealed in a glove of velvet. A man may be the creature of his wife's lofty projects, and yet dream all the time that he is altogether chalking out his own course. George II. used to be humored in this way by Queen Caroline.
After he went I sat there alone, painfully conscious that I was being pointed out and stared at from the box. The abominable Japanese gave way to yet more atrocious performing dogs. "How many offers of marriage will the young lady in the box have?" The dog stopped sagely at 'none, and then pulled out a card that said eight. Wild shouts of glee by the audience. "The fools," I muttered.
"Every instance of our doing those things which we ought not to have done, and leaving undone those things which we ought to have done, is attended," as he elsewhere sagely observes, "with more or less of what is truly remorse;" but he seems rather to have enjoyed even the remorse.
"What if they did? They're a fine lot to judge by." Kit meditated for a moment and then added, "I don't think I like blonde, curly hair either." "Well, I do," Helen answered, placidly. "I think he'd look wonderful in doublet and hose with a long cloak thrown around him. I think he's much better looking than Ralph." "You'd better not let Jean hear you say so," Kit told her sagely.
The Chair suggests that the Reception Committee well, that they stay at home and receive the guests, yes, that will do very nicely. All-in-favour-and-so-forth- it-is-a-vote-and-so-ordered. Secretary will please spread a copy on the minutes. Gavel. 'I rise to a point of order, said Jack, sagely. 'There is no secretary and there are no minutes.
What a shame they expunged the ghost story." "Freshmen are so unreliable," sagely commented Jane. "But I'm afraid outside influence spoiled the plot for the spook tragedy. I hope my things come today for the prom. I feel rather in need of a first class time under the beneficent influence of a real orchestra and prudently shaded lights." "Me, too," agreed Judith promptly if inelegantly.
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