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The commissary bowed his head in apparent acquiescence, but when he and the squire were left to their wine he recurred to the matter. "I look to ye, Meredith," he said, "to overcome your wife's absurd whimsey." "'T is useless to argue with Matilda when her mind 's made up," answered the husband, dejectedly. "That I have learned time and again."
No doubt there was some quarrel, some whimsey on the part of William, who, though a good fellow, was a little exacting sometimes something that a woman could put right. But though he inclined to take the easiest view of his responsibilities, he cared too much for this daughter to let things be. "I confess I find great difficulty in following you.
If there are, mine, which is not yet divorced from its means to material action, declines to be influenced by any irresponsible whimsey, emanating from a place whose denizens appear to be actuated by a mere frivolous antagonism to all human order and progress." "But supposing you, a murderer, to be haunted by the presentment of your victim?" "I will imagine that to be my case.
It was, as Jeanne had said, a sore thing to Willan Blaycke to be forced to seek a night's shelter in the Golden Pear. "Tut, tut!" said the other, "what odds! It is a whimsey, a weakness of yours, boy. What's the woman to you?" Victor Dubois, who had come up now, heard these words, and his swarthy cheek was a shade darker.
Understand, this is my whimsey only. I may be entirely wrong. My idea is that the man who shot him waited here at the cross-roads to head off either or both of them in case they were not winged by men stationed farther up. Of course, that must be quite obvious to all of you. My friend De Soto is inclined to the belief that they were trying to get across the border. I don't believe so.
While popular piety bubbled up into all sorts of emotional and captious sects, each with its pathetic insistence on some text or on some whimsey, but all inwardly inspired by an earnest religious hunger, academic and cultivated Protestantism became every day more pale and rationalistic.
"Hang me," cries Dawson, "if I thought it was anything but a whimsey of your honour's." "I should like to know if we may carry out this stratagem honestly," says I. "Aye," cries Jack. "I'll not agree for cutting of throats or breaking of bones, for any money." "I can tell you no more than this," says the Don.
"I was a bit skeptical at first, it all seemed so silly, such a whimsey for a rich man to fancy taking such big risks just for the thrill he got but the more I picked up about the man the less inclined I became to doubt, and by now I'm convinced it is the truth."
"It was a whimsey of mine once to compile a dictionary of the Carib lengua. So, I understood your order. Perhaps now you will " He cut short his words, for he heard the dull "swish" of iron scraping along tin. The admiral had drawn the cutlass of Pedro Lafitte, and was darting upon him.
Lamb was the slave of quip and whimsey; he stuttered out puns to the detriment of all serious and improving conversation, and twice or so in the year he was overtaken in liquor. Well, in spite of these things, perhaps on account of these things, I love his memory. For love and charity ripened in that nature as peaches ripen on the wall that fronts the sun.
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