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But if you repeat the same walk to-morrow, the same landscape effect will almost certainly suggest a train of ideas quite different from that of to-day. Perhaps it may begin by reminding you of landscape effects in general; then of Mr. Ruskin, who has discoursed so eloquently on that topic, and next of Mr.
She glanced from one stolid face to another, then made a desperate plunge. "What time do the posts go, Uncle Bernard? We ought to let mother know of our arrival." "I have already directed a telegram to that effect to be despatched. May I suggest that you delay any communication on your own part until we have had a future conversation." Checkmate!
There is nothing in that date to suggest our Iowa village, nor in the aspect of the hostelry itself, thank fortune. And there rises the spire of the city church, up the hill yonder, which was aging, as were most of the buildings that still flank it, when Luther made that memorable visit. America was not discovered, let alone Iowa, when these structures were erected.
Finnur Jónsson calls the dragon a hall-attacking monster; but this appellation is hardly correct. The only thing in the saga might fairly suggest it is Bjarki's statement, "The hall isn't so well defended as I thought, if a beast can destroy the domain and property of the king."
"I told you then that I had no intention of endeavoring to influence Mr. Rathbawne's judgment." "He spoke to you about it?" "Yes." "And asked your advice?" "He did." "And you replied?" The Lieutenant-Governor flushed. "I beg to suggest, sir," he answered, "that this is hardly the time for me to commit myself as to that. I conceive it to be a matter of official privacy. Mr. McGrath"
"Certainly," agreed Leslie; "I was about to suggest it." And therewith the two men seized, each of them, a handle and carried the box into the main cabin, placing it conveniently for pushing it under the table, out of the way, when not required.
That she, a young lady, maiden, of strictest education, should, and without his teaching, know that wives ran! know that by running they compelled their husbands to abandon pursuit, surrender possession! and that she should suggest it of herself as a wife! that she should speak of running!
"I am sorry, Paul. How can I help being excited," rejoined Anne Mie with quaint, pathetic gentleness, "when I speak of such base treachery, as that which Merlin has suggested?" "Well? And what did he suggest?"
She could only stare at him and could not even interrupt him. For her shrewd woman instinct told her so convincingly that even her sense of loyalty could not eject the doubt which assailed her mind, that if there was not truth in what he was saying there was at least probability. "I suggest even more," Beale went on.
The circumstances were calculated to suggest equally thoughts of the Great Teller of Stories and of the Great Story-teller, and I have a mind to amuse you at this Christmas season by telling you the circumstances, and letting you decide, if you can, which Dickens it was that Charles Vanderhuyn intended.
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