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But there is another man I warn you against Mr. Herbert Pryce." "A great friend of my cousins'," said Constance mockingly. "I know. He is always flirting with the eldest girl. It is a shame; for he will never marry her. He wants money and position, and he is so clever he will get them. He is not a gentleman, and he rarely tells the truth. But he is sure to make up to you.
"But when do people shoot and ride? do they ever hunt?" asked Miss Thorn, opening her wide brown eyes in some astonishment at John Harrington's description of society life in America. "Oh yes, they hunt at Newport with a drag and a bagged fox. They do it in July and August, when it is as hot as it can be, and the farmers turn out with pitchforks and stones to warn them off the growing crops."
'A virtuous woman' is not only one who possesses the one virtue to which the phrase has been so miserably confined, but who is 'a woman of strength' no doll or plaything, but 'A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command.
How prevent the devastations with which the convicts threatened the plateau? Had Neb any means by which to warn his master? And, besides, in what situation were the inhabitants of the corral themselves? Cyrus Harding and his companions had left on the 11th of November, and it was now the 29th.
"I could have got away from you if I had wanted," said the young man wearily. "But what was the use? I'm glad it is over." "I warn you, Ronald, that any statement you now make may be used against you on your trial," broke in Queensmead harshly. "My good fellow, I know all about that."
Then a short woman, evidently Lady Johnstone's maid, came quietly along by herself, stopping occasionally to look at the sea. Clare looked curiously at the party as they approached. Her first impulse had been to leave Brook and go back alone to warn her mother. It was not far. But she realised that it would be much better and wiser to face the introduction at once.
For these reasons the Singhalese, when obliged to leave their houses in the dark, carry a stick with a loose ring, the noise of which as they strike it on the ground is sufficient to warn the snakes to leave their path. I have heard of an eighth, the palla-polonga.
While Blacky was engaged in this task the door opened and Dakota came in. Moulin's admiration and friendship for Dakota might have impelled him to warn Dakota of the presence of Blanca, and he did hold up a covert finger, but Dakota at that moment was looking in another direction and did not observe the signal.
Thus Bernard began to speak, gently at first, as one who rouses a friend from sleep to warn him of danger, and fears to be rough, yet cannot be silent; but by and by, in the breathing stillness, the sweet voice was strengthened and rang like the first clarion at dawn on the day of battle, far off and clear, heart-stirring and true.
Still the problem of living things haunts my mind and, let me warn my reader, will continue to haunt it throughout the greater part of this volume. The final truth about it refuses to be spoken. Every effort to do so but gives one new evidence of how insoluble the problem is.
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