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Uncle Denis proposed rushing out and getting hold of the fellows who had fired, supposing that they were waiting for others to come up before attacking the house. My father, however, advised that we should remain within doors.
"Suppose that, instead of being Lord Fairmount, I were merely a clerk." "A clerk?" repeated Miss Rose, with a very well-managed shudder. "How can I suppose such an absurd thing as that?" "But if I were?" urged his lordship, feverishly. "It's no use supposing such a thing as that," said Miss Rose, briskly; "your high birth is stamped on you." His lordship shook his head.
No, no, brother, none of your tricks upon travellers I an't now to learn my compass." "Tricks!" cried the knight, starting up, and laying his hand on the pummel of his sword, "what! suspect my honour?" Crowe, supposing him to be really incensed, interrupted him with great earnestness, saying, "Nay, don't what apize! adds-buntlines!
Every hour I expected to come in sight of the ship, but we had reached the spot where I thought she would be found, and she was nowhere to be seen. We then steered to the southward and south-east, supposing that she might have stood after the boats in that direction.
Looking at the fore-top-mast-head, he called me down. Like Milton's devils, who were "found sleeping by one they dread," up I sprung, and regained my perch by the topsail-tie, supposing, or rather hoping, that he would not see me before the mast, in the obscurity of the evening; but he was too lynx-eyed, and had not presence of mind enough not to see what he should not have seen.
"Major Warfield, would it do any good for me to jump up and trot up and down the floor and go on as you do, even supposing I had the strength?" inquired the meek old lady, thoroughly provoked at his injustice! "I'd like to see you show a little more feeling! You are a perfect barbarian! Oh, Cap! my darling, where are you now? Heavens! what a blast was that!
All this he can imagine as the possible result. We were supposing his attention fixed a while on the recorded operations against some strongly fortified place, in a region marked through every part with the traces and memorials of the often-renewed conflicts of the Christian states.
That night part of the crew were wakened out of their sleep by an earthquake. They immediately ran upon deck, supposing that the ship had struck. On heaving the lead, however, there was no bottom to be found. We had afterwards several shocks, but none of them so violent as the first. We had then doubled the Struis Hoek, and were at that time in the Bay of Good Hope.
What would they think when they learned about her part in this gruesome drama that had just been enacted? They, serene in their trust in her, supposing she was at the home of one of her girl friends, were peacefully asleep in their quiet apartment.
Supposing that at school young people had acquired some exact elementary knowledge in physics, chemistry, and a branch of natural history say botany with the physiology connected with it, they would then have gained necessary knowledge, with some practice in inductive reasoning.
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