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Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. "Starboard gangway, there! side away to larboard larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!" There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.
"Do so, and fall the next day by my hand; my aim in slighter quarrel never erred." "Do you dare to threaten me?" "Do you dare to betray me? Betray one who, if he sinned, sinned on your account in your cause; who would have secured to you the loveliest bride, and the most princely dower in England; and whose only offence against you is that he cannot command life and health?"
"You have killed him," quoth Leofric the deacon, whom Hereward had beckoned to stop with him. "I hope not. Lend me a knife. He is a much slighter man than I fancied," said Hereward, as they got his helmet off. And when it was off, both started and stared.
"We'll make a try at it, Mr. Brent," he said. "But, as I say, to work on a slight clue like that " "I've known of far slighter clues," replied Brent.
The great events are, no doubt, faithfully related; so, probably, are many of the slighter circumstances, but which of them it is impossible to ascertain. We know there is truth, but we cannot exactly decide where it lies.
Miss Gentle acknowledged the truth with a slight bow. "And you are excuse me not young, Miss Gentle." The lady acknowledged this truth with a slighter bow. "You would not object to regard me in the light of a brother, would you?" Mr Blurt took one of her hands in his, and looked at her earnestly.
'Pray, let me put this water to her lips, said the shorter, who had not spoken yet. Each doing what she suggested, there was no want of assistance. Seeing this, and saying as much in a few words to the slighter and younger of the two ladies, the gentleman put his wife's arm over his shoulder, lifted her up, and carried her away.
Blanc introduced Mark Twain to the literary public of France; and Emile Blemont, in his 'Esquisses Americaines de Mark Twain' , still further enhanced the fame of Mark Twain in France by translating a number of his slighter sketches. He pointed out the praiseworthy efforts that had been made to popularize these "transatlantic gaieties," to import into France a new mode of comic entertainment.
From these considerations I inferred, that probably the atoll had lately subsided to a small amount; and this inference was strengthened by the circumstance, that in 1834, two years before our visit, the island had been shaken by a severe earthquake, and by two slighter ones during the ten previous years.
We have certainly no reason to be discouraged, whatever reason the poets themselves have to be so, and I do not think that even in the short story our younger writers are doing better work than they are doing in the slighter forms of verse. Yet the notion of inviting business talent into this field would be as preposterous as that of asking it to devote itself to the essay.
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