United States or New Caledonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
All her life she had been asking "Why?" taking the hard and distasteful because she thought there was a virtue in it, not because she had been trained to believe goodness must have a severe side and that really pleasant things were wicked. The "Whys" had never been answered, much as she had prayed about them. She would never take the girl to bring up now.
"He saw everything, and he not only saw it, but he set about learning its whys and wherefores, and he stuck at it till he had learned all there was to be learned about it." Said another friend, "I've known Edison since he was a boy of fourteen, and of my own knowledge I can say he never spent an idle day in his life.
And if you want to know anything more about it, you will have to wait, for I am not going to make any explanations now. I am too happy to know that I have a dear uncle left to me in this world, and to know that we two are going to live together always to want to talk about whys and wherefores." "But, Olive" exclaimed the captain. "There are no buts," she interrupted.
But, once in, there was no help but to play out the game as it had been begun. Villagers are seldom very sagacious people, and elegant strangers are quite too much esteemed among them to make them very particular in knowing tho whys and wherefores about them whence they come, what they do, and whither they propose to go.
She came in, but he did not look up. "Nick," she asked earnestly, "why wilt thou be so bad, and try to run away from my father?" "I hate thy father!" said he, and brought his fist down upon his knee. "Hate him? Oh, Nick! Why?" "If thou be asking whys," said Nick, bitterly, "why did he steal me away from my mother?" "Oh, surely, Nick, that cannot be true no, no, it cannot be true.
Mike himself wasn't so much interested in the whys and wherefores of the trip; he was wondering why it was necessary to tell anyone even the crew. Why not just pack Snookums up, take him to wherever he was going, and say nothing about it? Why explain it to the crew?
Her whole temper had been irritating and irritable she was perfectly aware of it. Toward her sick mother, indeed, she had controlled herself; nor, for such a restless creature, had she made a bad nurse. But Agnes had endured much, and found it all the harder because she was so totally in the dark as to the whys and wherefores of her sister's moods.
"Bid farewell to it!" repeated Phebe; "but why?" "For a series of whys," he answered; "first and foremost, because the doctors tell me, and I believe it, that my dear wife's days are numbered if she stays another year in this climate. All our days are numbered by God, I know; but man can number them also, if he pleases, and make them longer or shorter by his obedience or disobedience.
The sigh dismissed all frivolities, all futile "whys"; the girl was now face to face with the realities of life, and the events she had so recently taken part in would soon blend themselves into a dream. Dismissing the carriage, and walking briskly through the hall, she said to the night porter, "Have a hansom at the door for me in fifteen minutes." "A hansom, my lady?" gasped the astonished man.
But suppose a literary artist ventured to go into a painstaking and elaborate description of one of these grisly things the critics would skin him alive. Well, let it go, it cannot be helped; Art retains her privileges, Literature has lost hers. Somebody else may cipher out the whys and the wherefores and the consistencies of it I haven't got time.
Word Of The Day