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"I assure you it is not conscience that would have restrained me." "The fear of remorse, if I may use an ugly word." "But intelligent persons have no remorse, my dear child, because they reason before the deed, and not after. Before acting they weigh the pros and cons, and know what the consequences of their actions will be to others as well as to themselves.
Even the optimism of two-and-twenty recognised that such straws as these could not weigh against the hard- headed logic of a business man! It was in the last degree unlikely that Ronald would make any striking success in literature in the time still remaining under the terms of the agreement, unless as she herself had hinted desperate measures were adopted to meet desperate needs.
"Say, Mr. Inspector," he remarked, "you're a fine man in your way but you weigh too much that's what's the matter with you. Boys," he added, turning around, "what's the best exercise for reducing flesh?" "Dancing," they shouted. Long Jim grinned. He fell a little back. Suddenly he lowered his gun and shot into the ground, barely an inch from French's feet. The Inspector leaped into the air.
or Yeats' lines Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved, wherein he takes pride in the reflection: Weigh this song with the great and their pride; I made it out of a mouthful of air; Their children's children shall say they have lied. But a more vibrantly personal note breaks out from time to time in the most original verse of the last century, as in Wordsworth's testimony,
In you endless sunshine bright, Oh! what bliss 'twould be to dwell! How the breeze on yonder height Must the heart with rapture swell! Yet the stream that hems my path Checks me with its angry frown, While its waves, in rising wrath, Weigh my weary spirit down. See a bark is drawing near, But, alas, the pilot fails! Enter boldly wherefore fear?
Tournai was the first place towards which the enemies directed their arms. After a short resistance it fell into their hands. Villars, as I have said, was coriander in Flanders. Boufflers feeling that, in the position of affairs, such a post must weigh very heavily upon one man, and that in case of his death there was no one to take his place, offered to go to assist him.
A smile of her lips, parted in an anguish of expectancy, went to death over Renee's face. She looked at him tenderly. 'The truth, she murmured to herself, and her eyelids fell. 'I am ready to bear anything, said Beauchamp. 'I weigh what you ask me, that is all. You a burden to me? But when you ask me, you make me turn round and inquire how we stand before the world.
It was suggested that the taxation upon tea, tobacco, and spirits, which weigh more heavily on Ireland in proportion to her relative capacity, because of the habits of the people, and the larger proportion in Ireland of the poorer classes, might be reduced and a part of the burden transferred to other commodities.
Edward did so, and the animal fell dead. They went up to the carcass, which they estimated to weigh at least fifty stone. "It is a noble beast," said Edward; "I wonder we never thought of killing one before?" "They aren't game, Edward," replied Jacob. "No, they are not now, Jacob," said Humphrey; "as you and Edward claim all the game, I shall claim the cattle as my portion of the forest.
We stood on, but as yet no sign was perceptible of chase being made after us. It was possible, we thought, that no ship's company could be induced to weigh in pursuit. They well knew that we should prove a tough bargain, had any single ship come up with us. Should we prove victorious, every man might have been hung as a pirate. As to Parker, he dared not leave his fleet, as he ventured to call it.
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