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When Jean-Christophe reproached him with it, he used to titter and pretend not to take him seriously, until, seeing Jean-Christophe's eyes change and his lips tremble with anger, he would change his tone, and fearfully promise not to do it again, and the next day he would do it. Jean-Christophe would write him furious letters, in which he called him: "Scoundrel! Let me never hear of you again!
Except very occasionally, we do not meet together for the solemn purpose of worship, and upon some other points we do not see eye to eye; and whilst I feel deeply sensible that, notwithstanding this diversity among us, we are truly united in our Holy Head, there are times when, in my declining years, I seriously feel the loss of not having more of the spiritual help and encouragement of those I have brought up, and truly sought to nurture in the Lord.
Nehemiah was a man, in his day, one that was zealous, very zealous for God, for his house, for his people, and for his ways; and so continued, and that from first to last, as they may see that please to read the relation of his action; yet when he comes seriously to be concerned with God about his duties, he relinquisheth a standing by them.
I turned myself at once to the preparation for the Press of the translations of St. Athanasius to which I had long wished to devote myself, and I intended and intend to employ myself in the like theological studies, and in the concerns of my own parish and in practical works. "With the same view of personal improvement I was led more seriously to a design which had been long on my mind.
"The more seriously I contemplate the political tranquillity of this Province," he wrote, "the more steadfastly am I confirmed in my opinion that cool, stern, decisive, un-conciliating measures form the most popular description of government that can be exercised towards the free and high-minded inhabitants of the Canadas." The style of his despatches did not improve with time.
I like to see a man take life seriously and try to amount to something, and not waste the best years of his life trailing after women who are old enough to be his grandmother, and don't mean that it will ever come to anything." In her room, in the front of the house, Laura was partly undressed when Mrs. Cressler knocked at her door.
Why do you perspire in order that publishers may grow fat? I know what Spring Onions' terms would be. Seriously, you ought to employ an agent. He'd double your income. I don't say Mr. Snyder particularly 'But Mr. Snyder is a very good agent, isn't he? 'Yes, affirmed Miss Foster gravely. 'He acts for all the best men. 'Then I shall come to him, said Henry. 'I had thought of doing so.
After all, that dreadful aspect of the thing never really took hold of me; I could put it by without much effort. Life is done and what matter? Whether it has been, in sum, painful or enjoyable, even now I cannot say a fact which in itself should prevent me from taking the loss too seriously. What does it matter?
The girl had one of those constitutions which, though they seem frail and delicate, yet, like the reed, are able to resist what breaks more robust frames. The wetting she had gotten, on the evening whose events we have chronicled, had not seriously affected her; a severe cold, and with it some slight fever, had been the result.
This was the third animal we had lost, from various causes, during our travels, and the mishap most seriously affected the success of our dinner arrangements for the day. Found great difficulty in getting up this morning after my fall, and still more in walking three miles, which I had to do before finding a pony.
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