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Here is an order on your parish priest, who will bury your mother, and here is a trifle for yourselves," he said, handing to each of them a gold ounce. They went their way, blessing the man that had succored them in their necessity.
This concerns the fortune of Madame la Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale I make you the first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak."
He became a trifle less dreary; and he looked much as he had looked when he noticed the white musk rose in the flower-garden. Here is my daughter's evidence, as drawn off from her by the Sergeant. She gave it, I think, very prettily but, there! she is my child all over: nothing of her mother in her; Lord bless you, nothing of her mother in her!
As I understand nothing about reading and writing, and do not wear spectacles, I undertook to read it. I had not turned two leaves when all at once he caught me by the hand and stopped me. "Stop! tell me first what you are reading." I confess that I was a trifle stunned by such a question. "What! what am I reading, Thoma Grigorovitch? Why, your own words." "Who told you that they were my words?"
All that day he went about in an alternate state of dread and hope. Hope that the missing four hundred might be found, dread of many possibilities. Twice he stopped at the bank to ask Captain Sam concerning it. The second time the captain was a trifle impatient. "Gracious king, Jed," he snapped. "What's the matter with you? 'Tain't a million.
She had thick hair done up in a heavy knob, a bulging forehead, wide cheeks, a short, straight nose, eyes perpetually cast down, and when they met the eyes of another, they would turn away with an expression in which there was little frankness and small kindness: her lips were a trifle thick, and closely pressed together, and she had a stubborn, rather hard expression.
Some have been artful; others artless; others utterly clumsy. But this, I think, is the clumsiest of them all. Mistress Winthrop, 'tis not worthy in you." She looked puzzled, intrigued by his mood. "Mistress Winthrop," he resumed, with an entire change of voice. "To speak of this trifle is but a subterfuge of yours to prevent me from expressing my deep gratitude for your care of me."
In the reception room they met Oliver and his friend, and it was all that Montague could do to repress a look of consternation. The name of the personage was Mr. Gamble. He was a little man, a trifle over five feet high, and so fat that one wondered how he could get about alone; his chin and neck were a series of rolls of fat.
It is not possible for him to accommodate himself to it. For instance, see how old-fashioned and strait-laced I am! I wish I had been miles away from St. Rest before I had ever seen you smoking! It is a trifle, perhaps, but it is one of those trifles which stick in the memory and embitter the mind!"
The imagination loves to trifle with what is not. Had this been indeed the deluge, I should have felt more strongly, but the emotion would have been similar in kind. I played with the idea, as the child flees in delighted terror from the creations of his fancy. The look of the thing helped me.
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