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The popular estimate of French character dwells overmuch upon the levity or gaiety which undoubtedly marks the Gallic race. France could not have accomplished her great work for the world without stability of purpose and seriousness of mood. Nowhere in French biography are these qualities more plainly illustrated than by the acts of Champlain.

Gammon asked of her at length in an aside. "Don't be a silly," she answered, turning her back. "Because, if so, I'd better get the start of him. There's a convenient bit of ground here." He spoke with such seeming seriousness that Polly showed alarm. "Don't be a silly, Mr. Gammon. If you misbehave yourself, I'll never speak to you again." "Well, what I want to know is, am I to be on guard?

He was a cheerful person, yet with an admixture of seriousness.

"I know it would suit me capitally," she replied in all seriousness, "and I should certainly have worn one, if I had married Baron R , which I was nearly doing, as you know, but it is not suitable for the wife of a government official." When a girl of the middle classes wanders from the paths of virtue, her fall may, as a rule, be rightly ascribed to her hankering after the nobility.

Instead of laughing in his sleeve at his fair foe, with all her sore amour-propre and loud self-assertion, M. Paul detested her with intense seriousness; he honoured her with his earnest fury; he pursued her vindictively and implacably, refusing to rest peaceably in his bed, to derive due benefit from his meals, or even serenely to relish his cigar, till she was fairly rooted out of the establishment.

"Too early for me," he said, "you fellers can git all you need into you though. But see here, folks," he went on, with a quietness of purpose that promptly reduced every eye to seriousness. "This ain't no play game as Sunny may ha' made you think. It's a proposition that needs to go thro', an' I'm goin' to see it thro'. Zip's kids is our first trouble.

As compared with the British school, the leading American school is marked by an increased delicacy of finesse, a tendency to refine and refine, a perhaps exaggerated dread of the platitude and the commonplace, a fondness for analysis, a preference for character over event, an avoidance of absolutely untempered seriousness and solidity. Mr.

Many of his moderate supporters Neilson, Andrew Stuart, Quesnel, Cuvillier fell away, only to be overwhelmed in the first election at a wave of the great tribune's hand. Business was blocked, supplies were not voted, and civil servants made shift without salary as best they could. The British Government awoke, or half awoke, to the seriousness of the situation.

But, as has so constantly to be said in reference to Mr Arnold, these things do not matter. He must have his catchwords: and so "criticism of life" and "high seriousness" are introduced at their and his peril. He must have his maintenance of the great classics, and so he exposes what I fear may be called no very extensive or accurate acquaintance with Old French.

'Thank you for bringing my book, but I must go home now. I know that you will see that it is not necessary for us to be talking here. 'Yes you are quite right, said the repressed young painter, struck by her seriousness. 'Blame me; I ought to have known better. But perhaps a man well, I will say it a lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.