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I well hope that it harbours not a guest in whose presence you are afraid to say your pleasure to me or my brother? I am sorry I have been detained so late, being ignorant of the fair company which I should encounter on my return. I pray you let this excuse suffice: and what satisfies you, will, I trust, be nothing less than acceptable to your guests."
Suffice it therefore to say, that in our judgment many witty and learned sayings were uttered for the learning, that must rest upon our declaration for the wit, the slaves will bear witness to it, as they did then, by their unrestrained bursts of laughter.
Religion can alone explain this singular affection of the Irish people for a race which, in reality, has caused the greatest of their misfortunes. The subsequent events of this strange history are in perfect keeping with those preceding. A few words will suffice to sketch them.
A rapid glance over the preceding pages will suffice to show that it was on a rigid avoidance of all unnecessary war above all, of distant and perilous enterprises, that the revenue of Athens rested.
The traffic of words is a labour, and a more frequent cause of misunderstanding than of interpretation therefore it is wiser, if peace be desired, to keep always silent. Where a gesture will do the work of a word, let a gesture suffice.
Even the discovery that ovens were being put up on the premises, and that the shop was, in fact, being fitted up for a confectioner and pastry-cook's business, hitherto unknown in Grimworth, did not quite suffice to turn the scale in the newcomer's favour, though the landlady at the Woolpack defended him warmly, said he seemed to be a very clever young man, and from what she could make out, came of a very good family; indeed, was most likely a good many people's betters.
Whether she was flattered at seeing that powerful man, before whom millions trembled, and who had to decide over the life and death, the honor and happiness of so many thousands, fettered by her soft curls, or whether her enigmatical heart for once really felt what true love was, suffice it to say, that in a short time she was his acknowledged mistress, and her princely lover surrounded her with the luxury of an Eastern queen.
As for the greeting given by mothers and sisters and relatives of every degree and by friends assembled on the "New Hampshire," that is one experience that cannot be described; it must be felt to be appreciated. Suffice it that every member of the New York Naval Battalion felt amply repaid for the hardships endured and the sacrifices made in the service of Old Glory.
"Suffice it to say that the dam had nearly reached completion in eight days' working-time, and the water had risen sufficiently on the upper falls to allow the 'Fort Hindman, 'Osage, and 'Neosho' to get down and be ready to pass the dam. In another day it would have been high enough to enable all the other vessels to pass the upper falls.
As to his left, he judged that one Italian division, the Bavarian cavalry, and that of Ornano, about 10,000 men, would suffice to cover it. Such were the plans of Napoleon. He was on the heights of Borodino, taking a last survey of the whole field of battle, and confirming himself in his plan, when Davoust hastened up.
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