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One is inclined to apply to practical politics Arthur Young's sensible remark about the endeavour of the French to improve the quality of their wool: 'A cultivator at the head of a sheep-farm of 3000 or 4000 acres, would in a few years do more for their wools than all the academicians and philosophers will effect in ten centuries.
It spoke volumes for the wholesome, sensible nature of Betty Leverett that she could take her olden place in the household, assist her mother, and entertain her father with the many interesting events of her gay and happy winter. The matter had settled itself so easily that Doris could not find much opportunity for sorrow, nor misgivings for her joy.
Yet all these thoughts could not make me sensible to our losses. I even formed agreeable ideas of our going to the hospital. No state appeared to me so poor and miserable, which I should not have thought easy, in comparison with the continual domestic persecutions I underwent. My father, who loved me tenderly, and whom I honored beyond expression, knew nothing of it.
"An insane person is not so likely to do that, I believe. But she is not what I would call a sensible young woman. Not at all." "I should say not!" gasped Prudence. "But I have heard her, and I have reflected on what she has said. I do not see, if she is an impostor, how she could have made up that story." "Then she must be loony," muttered Cap'n Ira.
I am never sure whether it is that or obesity. But you know what I mean. "To begin at the beginning, then, you would be surprised how sensible father is turning out. I can hardly understand it.
There was so much crowded into it that it would almost make a little book of itself. The morning was spent by a large class of people in a state of excited unrest and expectancy. The sensible ones by the hundreds, and indeed I suppose I may say by the thousands, went to the morning service, as usual, and heard the children's sermon, delivered by Dr.
Her sister, Mary, was several years older, several inches taller, and of a larger, coarser build—a plain, quiet, sensible girl, who had patiently nursed their mother, through her last long, tedious illness, and been the housekeeper, and family drudge, from thence to the present time.
We shall never leave it." "Your daughter won't like that," I said, smiling too. "Has she been taking you into her confidence? She is a more sensible young lady than she sometimes appears. I have taken great pains with her; she is really I may be permitted to say it superbly educated." "She seemed to me a very charming girl," I rejoined. "And I learned that she speaks four languages."
"I should have thought you were old enough to find some more sensible amusement than putting pieces of penny toys in your boots. You may laugh at Valentine if you like, but I can tell you this, he's very fond of you, and that's the reason why he doesn't like to see you in trouble." "I know he is," returned the boy briskly. "He's a brick; and I like him better than any other chap in the school."
Had the same behaviour continued, Miss Smith might have been led into a misconception of your views; not being aware, probably, any more than myself, of the very great inequality which you are so sensible of. But, as it is, the disappointment is single, and, I trust, will not be lasting. I have no thoughts of matrimony at present."
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