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Nothing more than that; he understood perfectly the limits of her feeling. But this could not put restraint upon the emotion with which he received any most trifling utterance of kindness from her. He did not think of what was, but of what, under changed circumstances, might be. To encourage such fantasy was the idlest self-torment, but he had gone too far in this form of indulgence.
If anyone will go into the City Hall and listen to the trial of even a trifling cause, he will find that the proceedings consist largely in the attempt of one lawyer to have certain facts laid before the jury and the attempts of the other to prevent it, the judge sitting as arbiter between them and applying the rules of admission and exclusion to each of these facts as it comes up.
At another time she suggested that, as there were only a few hours left for the business of the convention, they should not be frittered away in trifling discussions, saying, "if she were a man she would be ashamed to consume the time in telling how much she loved women and in fulsome flattery of other men."
Only vouchsafe an answer. It is reported so. But men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways. And in any case, however great may be the number of different explanations, no one has adopted or suggested the theory of a Fourth Dimension. Therefore, pray have done with this trifling, and let us return to business.
'Ay, a fellow-creature, said I for the sergeant was an orangeman 'and if he differs from you in matters of religion, sure he's your fellow-creature still. 'Troth, Doctor, I think there's another trifling difference betune us, said he. 'Damn your politics, said I; 'never let them interfere with true humanity. Wasn't I right, Major?
One circumstance of Cara's former life had come to Ann's knowledge unavoidably the fact that her husband, Dene Hilyard, had ill-treated her. A most trifling accident had served to reveal it.
He went round to the different tables, addressing to the company compliments and trifling remarks, and departed, leaving at table the persons by whom he had been invited. This short political crisis was marked by nothing more grand, dignified, or noble than the previous revolutionary commotions.
"Shot him?" gasped Lord Bazelhurst, his thin red face going very white. "Not not fatally?" exclaimed Evelyn, aghast in spite of herself. "No. The instructions were carried out. His wound in the arm is trifling. But the coward was not so generous when it came to the life of his innocent, harmless dog. He killed the poor thing. Evelyn, it's it's like murder." "Oh," cried her ladyship, relieved.
A touch of acrimony seems discernible in certain utterances of Mr George Bernard Shaw about amateur theatricals which makes one doubt whether such a statement in his case would contain even the trifling percentage of truth that is customary in epitaphs.
This is the general dress of all those who belong to the universities, with the exception of a very trifling difference, by which persons of high birth and rank are distinguished.
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