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It was a peculiar speech not altogether suited to cheer timid hearts, had any such been there, but admirably adapted to British soldiers. "Men," said he, "I am very glad to see you parade looking so well and clean and comfortable and ready for active service. You will be dirty enough, sometimes, where you are going, for the country is hot and unhealthy, and not over clean.
But at last she trembled too much to stand, and she sat down too. "How has it happened, Diana?" Evan asked without looking up. "I don't know," she said just above her breath. "How could you do so?" Well, it suited him well to reproach her! What matter? Things could not be more bitter than they were. She did not try to answer. "You have ruined both our lives. Mine is ruined; I am ruined.
On the evening of July 6, Boris Strumolowski several of whose works were on show there because they were as yet too advanced to be on show anywhere else had begun well, with that aloof and rather Christlike silence which admirably suited his youthful, round, broad-cheekboned countenance framed in bright hair banged like a girl's.
By no word or phrase, except such as were necessary to legally protect her in the rights he wished to give her in case of his death, had he written anything to indicate that he or she were not both perfectly free to plan out the rest of their lives as best suited them. In a certain way, his kindness was cruelty. It threw too much upon her.
The Duchess, not knowing who had carried off either Constance or Mistress Penwick, was very free in her conversation and spoke at once of Lord Cedric's injury and of the naughty beauty that had driven him to it. Buckingham's countenance was changed by the assumed expression of either surprise or regret, as was necessary and suited.
There was no topic suited to so fleeting a moment, and when they had smiled all round again Dr. Sevier lifted his hat. Ah, yes, there was one thing. "Have you found work?" asked the Doctor of Richling. The wife glanced up for an instant into her husband's face, and then down again. "No," said Richling, "not yet.
For I have often observed that the early age of an individual bears a great resemblance to the early age of the human race, or of any particular nation; so that the characters of the Old Testament are often more suited, in a Christian country, for the instruction of the young than for those of more advanced years.
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses; by all means let them keep it: let it therefore command external respect, for to discredit it is to take it away. Just as they have popular poetry, and the popular wisdom of proverbs, so they must have popular metaphysics too: for mankind absolutely needs an interpretation of life; and this, again, must be suited to popular comprehension.
I stared at him. "Then what on earth did you suggest the scheme for?" "To tell you the truth, sir, I was not wholly averse from a severance of my relations with Miss Watson. In fact, I greatly desired it. I respect Miss Watson exceedingly, but I have seen for a long time that we were not suited. Now, the other young person with whom I have an understanding " "Great Scott, Jeeves!
Dirkovitch knew this as well as any one else, but it suited him to talk special-correspondently and to make himself as genial as he could. Now and then he volunteered a little, a very little, information about his own Sotnia of Cossacks, left apparently to look after themselves somewhere at the back of beyond.
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