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"I wish none the less from the depths of my heart that the Congress of Universal Peace may succeed at last in its very honorable and difficult enterprise. "I am, dear sir, etc., "CAMILLE DOUCET." The upshot of this is that personal honor requires men to fight, and the interests of nations require them to ruin and exterminate each other.
He fixed up the Envoy in the house at Albert Gate, got a lot of diamond cutters and machinery for him, gave him into the charge of all the smart policemen in London; and what do you think is the upshot?" "What?"
It is, above all, a measure of the greatness of Jesus, of the force with which he had drawn to himself the hearts and imaginations of men.... 'And now, my friends, what of all this? If these things I have been saying to you are true, what is the upshot of them for you and me?
'You may be sure, said Martin, 'that this nettled him, and that he began to be the very reverse of complimentary to myself. Interview succeeded interview; words engendered words, as they always do; and the upshot of it was, that I was to renounce her, or be renounced by him. 'Obstinacy, suggested Tom in perfect good faith.
You shall come with me as consort, though, and stand to and fro in the offing, or sink me if I stir a step. My mind was full of my father's plans and of the courses which lay before me. There seemed to be no choice, however, as old Solomon was in dead earnest, but to lay the matter aside for the moment and see the upshot of this adventure. 'Mind, Solomon, said I, 'I don't cross the threshold.
If the upshot of the war is to be regarded and acted upon simply as a defeat of German Militarism by Anglo-French Militarism, then the war will not only have wrought its own immediate evils of destruction and demoralization, but will extinguish the last hope that we have risen above the "dragons of the prime that tare each other in their slime." We have all been equally guilty in the past.
The time, at sunset, the place, the corner of Manton Lane. And what is the upshot? At that corner, at sunset, persons and a carriage were waiting to carry her off. Who besides you knew that she would be there? Lady Dunborough continued, driving home the point with her finger. 'Who besides you knew the time?
I wondered what the likely upshot would be, but I was interrupted in my soliloquy by a summons to reenter the Count's chamber. I was shown to a seat. Graf Wedel looked me over carefully and minutely for a considerable length of time with a frank stare of appraisal. "How old are you, Doctor?" I must confess my extreme youth always made this question one of secret annoyance.
Theodose had a presentiment, though a very vague one, that the upshot of this conference would have some influence on Cerizet's own arrangements, for he suddenly beheld on that crafty countenance the change produced by a dawning hope. "But, my dear mamma Cardinal " "Yes, my good monsieur " "What is it you want ?" "It must be decided "
She seemed to know what I would be at, and to doubt very greatly about it, whether as a child of old she might permit the usage. All sorts of things went through my head, as I made myself look away from her, for fear of being tempted beyond what I could bear. And the upshot of it was that I said, within my heart and through it, "John Ridd, be on thy very best manners with this lonely maiden."
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