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"How are you getting along?" "Won't come out right" in a very despondent tone. "Let me see, did you subtract that...?" "Oh-h-h! I forgot that," and a little light seems to break, as he scratches away for a few moments; then pauses. "And this figure here, should it be...." "Oh-h-h, I see." More scratching, and a soft sigh of relief, and the knitting brows unravel, and the face brightens.
The only question for the judge is this: Add your sums and subtract your deductions, and the prisoner is sentenced to one year, seven months, and thirteen days. Not one day more or less! But the human spectator asks: "If the criminal should happen to be reformed before the expiration of his term, should he be retained in prison?"
It is good that men in different ranks of society should be brought into intercourse with each other; it will subtract something from the prejudices of both, and enable each to obtain some of the advantages of the other. The division of rank is too much calculated to split society into parties having a certain hostility to each other.
My sea journal was now much the same from day to day-something like this of June 26 and 27, for example: June 26, in the morning, it is a bit squally; later in, the day blowing a steady breeze. On the log at noon is 130 miles Subtract correction for slip 10 " 120 " Add for current 10 " 130 " Latitude by observation at noon, 10 degrees 23' S. Longitude as per mark on the chart.
From this number we subtract the total of feet burned at the time when the preceding gas bill was rendered. This is generally called on the bill "present state of meter." The result of the subtraction will be the amount of gas that has been burned since the last bill was rendered.
To convince ourselves of this fact, let us take a man regarded as least imaginative: subtract the moments when his consciousness is busied with perceptions, memories, emotions, logical thought and action all the rest of his mental life must be put down to the credit of the imagination.
He neither asked, expected, nor desired any aid except that of the clans to place the Stuarts once more on the throne; and when by chance a few adherents joined the standard, he always considered them in the light of new claimants upon the favours of the future monarch, who, he concluded, must therefore subtract for their gratification so much of the bounty which ought to be shared among his Highland followers.
Having written down all these sums in order, add together all those, the places of which are odd, as the first, the third, the fifth, etc.; make another sum of all those, the places of which are even, as the second, the fourth, the sixth, etc.; subtract this sum from the former, and the remainder will be the double of the first number.
Lady Dolly, in front, repeated Lord Ingleton's phrase with ingenuous wonder. "I know it's clever," she insisted, "but what does it mean? Now that other thing what was it? 'Subtract vice, and virtue is what is left' that's an easy one. Write it down on your cuff for me, will you, Colonel Cummins? I shall be so sick if I forget it."
That a man's individuality should swing round from pole to pole, and yet that one life should contain these two contradictory personalities is it not a wondrous thing? I ask myself, where is the man, the very, very inmost essence of the man? See how much you may subtract from him without touching it.
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