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Does it " and he touched the top of his head, covered with moist black hair. Mr. Lavender sighed. "At a time like this," he said, "we must all be prepared to sacrifice our health. No public man, as you know, can call his head his own for a moment. I should count myself singularly lacking if I stopped to consider er such a consideration."
With all my occupations, some six afternoons and two or three odd evenings remained at my disposal every week: a circumstance the more agreeable as I was a stranger in a city singularly picturesque. I visited Chinese and Mexican gambling-hells, German secret societies, sailors' boarding-houses, and "dives" of every complexion of the disreputable and dangerous. Coleman.
The child, a singularly fair one, was found alive, but the mother dead, by lightning-stroke as it seemed, not far from her lord's chamber-door, under the shelter of a ruined ivy-clad tower. Denys himself certainly was a joyous lad enough. On that Easter Day he had entered the great church for the first time, for the purpose of seeing the game.
"Unity !" broke from Durham; and Madame de Treymes gently suffered his smile. "Of the family tradition, I mean: it introduces new elements. You are a new element." "Thank heaven!" said Durham again. She looked at him singularly. "Yes you may thank heaven. Why isn't it enough to satisfy Fanny?" "Why isn't what enough?"
I was never quite sure whether the woman dealt squarely with me or not. But it was my fault, Sally; I want you to know that I have no excuse to offer. I don't want you to try to say anything that would make my lot easier." It was not Sally Owen's way to extenuate errors of commission or omission. Her mental processes were always singularly direct.
Latterly the signs of this have been conspicuous in her style, which has always been and is singularly correct, but which has become occasionally obscure from her too great desire to be pungent. It is impossible not to feel the struggle, and that feeling begets a flavour of affectation.
"We may meet somewhere to-morrow, Grosvenor," he said, "but neither of us knows where, nor under what circumstances." "Just so we meet after victory, that's enough," said Grosvenor. "Aye, so it is." The boom of a cannon came from down the river, it was followed by another and another and then by many, singularly clear in the September twilight.
I could not raise them; a morbid sleep, full of hallucinations, bereft me of my being. Then the visions disappeared, and left me in complete insensibility. The next day I woke with my head singularly clear. To my great surprise, I was in my own room.
With the present prospects of this long-awaited reform encouraging us, it would be singularly unfortunate if this monetary question should by any chance become a party issue. And I sincerely hope it will not.
Her temper was sweet and amiable; her character singularly truthful and sincere; and, that she might never be separated from her friend, the place of superintendent of the queen's household was revived for her.
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