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'Why, Providence was kind to her when it sent her me for her master, Udal said. 'I never had apter pupil saving only one. 'Shall Thomas Cromwell redress? the old man asked. 'If good learning can make a good queen, trust me to render her one, Udal avoided the question. 'But alas! being declared bastard for very excellent reasons she may not 'You owe me nine crowns, old Badge threatened him.
He now saw military treatises expounded practically by professors, like his uncle Condo, and Admiral Coligny, and Lewis Nassau, in such lecture-rooms as Laudun, and Jarnac, and Montcontour, and never was apter scholar. The peace of Arnay-le-Duc succeeded, and then the fatal Bartholomew marriage with the Messalina of Valois.
He is always troubled with small scruples, which his conscience catches like the itch, and the rubbing of these is both his pleasure and his pain. But for things of greater moment he is unconcerned, as cattle in the summer-time are more pestered with flies that vex their sores than creatures more considerable, and dust and motes are apter to stick in blear-eyes than things of greater weight.
A staunch friend and an uncompromising adversary valuing political honesty no more lightly than private honor liberal and unsuspicious to a fault in his social relations very frank and simple in speech in manner always courteous and cordial it would be hard to find, in Europe, an apter representative of the ancient régime.
We-uns owe it obejiunce, like I hearn a man say in a speech down yander in" "The law!" cried Narcissa, with scorn. "Con Hite kin tromp on the revenue law from hyar ter the witch-face, fur all I keer. Purtects! I pity a man ez waits fur the law ter purtect him; it's a heap apter ter grind him ter pomace. I mind moonshinin' 'kase it's dangersome fur the moonshiners.
He quitted the hut, on the spot, and immediately set about this self-assigned duty. "Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand." Curiosity induced me to follow the Indian, in order to watch his movements.
He bore the external signs of an infirm magician, while his face was hidden in a cloth to mark the imposition of a solemn vow. "With what apter simile," he continued, "can this person describe an imperishable set of verses which he heard this morning falling from the lips of a wandering musician like a seven-roped cable of pearls pouring into a silver bucket?
If Joseph Jefferson was not a great actor I should like some competent person to tell me what actor of our time could be so described. Two or three of the journals of Paris referred to him as "the American Coquelin." It had been apter to describe Coquelin as the French Jefferson. I never saw Frederic Lemaître.
So elaborate was the system that it was universally known as the "Labyrinth," and no apter name could have been devised. Long months afterwards, when "the strife was o'er, the battle done," I rode along this stretch of beach where the cliffs for upwards of a mile were honeycombed with caves of different sizes, all of them made by the hand of man.
Professor Robertson commenced by a brief and well-timed reference to the accomplished Hypatia, familiar to ladies from Kingsley's novel in the days when ladies used to read novels and also the Royal ladies whom Descartes and Leibnitz found apter disciples than the savants.
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