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He laughed; laid down the little basket he held, took it up again, and finally resumed: "Madam, you are right; we did not stop at finding a motive. Our next step was to collect evidence directly connecting him with the crime." "And you succeeded in this?" My tone was unnecessarily eager, this was all so unaccountable to me; but he did not appear to notice it. "We did.
He complained that the dogs in the village barked so loud; then, that the children robbed the birds' nests; then, that the night-watchman called the hour unnecessarily loud. These complaints, however, were not made in his own name, but by another person whom he did not name.
Similarly, though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some persons to brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind. In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
"Your Excellency has spoken of expediency political expediency. Sometimes political expediency can overreach itself and perpetrate the most grave injustices. Individuals at times are unnecessarily called upon to suffer in the interests of a cause.
And it is a melancholy though half sarcastic glimpse into his domestic privacy which he incidentally, and it must be allowed rather unnecessarily, gives in the following passage of the same poem: In other words, the kindness of the voice reassured him that it was NOT the same as that which he was wont to hear close to his pillow!
Calling upon abolitionists to stand by their principles, he at the same time warned them not to criticize Lincoln or the Republicans unnecessarily, not to divide the North, but to watch events and bide their time, and he opposed those abolitionists who wanted to withhold support of the government until it stood openly and unequivocally for the Negro's freedom.
In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience.
Where undue timidity, phobia, or habit spasm is present, the question is more difficult to decide. Every individual case must be studied as a whole, and our object should be not unnecessarily to deprive the boy of the wholesome training of public-school life. There are parents who from sheer ignorance add to the difficulties which the boy encounters in going to school.
The delay may, of course, have afforded them an opportunity to make arrangements for our reception by putting out of sight any " "Any tell-tale evidences of their dishonesty," laughed the first luff. "Really, Hawkesley, I must say I think you are deceiving yourself and worrying yourself unnecessarily.
"Is it you, dearie?" she asked, rather unnecessarily, surveying her critically by the light of a flaring tallow candle. "No, Aunt Hagar, it's not I," laughed the girl; "it's Miss Arthur's French maid that you see before you. And don't drop that tallow on her devoted head," lifting a deprecating hand.
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