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Yes, Providunce sent me here," continued the Cap'n, poking down his tobacco with broad thumb. "There I was, swashin' from Hackenny to t'other place, livin' on lobscouse and hoss-meat; and here you was, pinin' away for some one to love you and to talk to you about something sensibler than dropped stitches and croshayed lamp-mats.
All the plants could be in before the end of February, and I'll promise myself that by June, when the Queen's day came round, there shouldn't be a loyaller-bloomin' garden in the land." "Well," allowed Cai, "that's sensibler anyway than puttin' up arches and mottoes. But what's to prevent ye?" "'Tis that nasty disagreeable Mr Middlecoat," answered Mrs Bosenna pettishly.
Now, it's a whole lot sensibler to land on Young Sandow an' get three hundred for it, than to land on some hayseed an' get hauled up an' fined before some justice of the peace. Now take another squint at Hazel an' Hattie. They're regular farm furniture, good to breed from when we get to that valley of the moon. An' they're heavy enough to turn right into the plowin', too."
"Or else got sensibler and remembered our property and come around to let blood." "Bound to make trouble, anyway." "She's made it!" The Cap'n turned doleful gaze over his shoulder at the chimney of his house. "Bein' crazy she can make a lot more of it. I tell you, Cap'n, there's only this to do, and it ought to work with wimmen-folks as sensible as our'n are.
"No, it's not going to be about fairies, fairies is silly. Giants are more sensibler than fairies, because there was a giant once. There was Golosher!" "I beg your pardon?" "Golosher!" "Don't know the gentleman." "Oh, you naughty! And David killed him in the Bible. I'll tell you a story about giants." "I don't think I am interested in giants."
Every eye sees it; nor would it see anything, unless it saw it; since it is by that light and its pure rays that the eye sees everything. As the sensibler sun in the firmament lights all bodies, so the sun of intelligence lights all minds. The substance of a man's eye is not the light: on the contrary, the eye borrows, every moment, the light from the rays of the sun.
"Nervy," said Mr. Fluker to his wife afterwards, "Matt Pike's a sensibler an' a friendlier an' a 'commodatiner feller'n I thought." Then, without giving details of the contract, he mentioned merely the willingness of their boarder to resign his bed on occasions of pressing emergency. "He's talked mighty fine to me and Marann," answered Mrs. Fluker. "We'll see how he holds out.
For Helena, too, had gone into the kitchen and seizing a pitcher of cream Mattie was carrying to the table, demanded a chance to "whip" it. "It's such an improvement, or will be for that good coffee you've made, and Herbert likes it so much." Mattie put her arms akimbo and stared; then demanded, in turn: "Can't you do anything sensibler than 'whip' cream? As if it was bad.
If mamma comes out she'll only talk to you and I'll be all alone. I don't want her. 'Oh, Bride, that's not nice. I'm sure mamma likes to talk to you too, only you see I'm older, and there's often things you wouldn't understand about perhaps, and 'I know it's always the same. I'm too little to be any use. I know you're older and sensibler, and I don't mean that mamma's not kind.