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"Quite true," Selingman assented. "He is. It is only recently that he came to us, but I do not mind telling you that during the last few weeks no one has done such good work. He is the very man we needed." "You have trusted him?" "I trust or I do not trust," Selingman replied. "That you know. I have employed this young man in very useful work. I cannot blindfold him. He knows."
I like settled weather, the calm of that time of life when the sins and follies have been committed, the passions burned themselves out, and the ambitions frustrated so that they do not bother, the aspirations defeated, the hopes brought low. Then you have some comfort. This turmoil of vernal striving makes me tired." "Yes, I see what you mean," the poet assented.
I can but tell you part, my friend," rejoined the other, "yet 'tis passing simple. You begin with one golden guinea ... and lose it ... then you put up two and lose again...." "Passing simple," assented Sir Michael ironically. "But after that you put up four guineas." "And lose it." "Yea! yea! mayhap you lose it ... but then you put up eight guineas ... and win.
Renouard, his uneasiness growing on him unreasonably, assented by a nod, and the other lost no time in beginning. Professor Moorsom physicist and philosopher fine head of white hair, to judge from the photographs plenty of brains in the head too all these famous books surely even Renouard would know. . . .
At dusk father, mother, and daughter seated themselves on the back porch. "There!" sighed Alma. "Isn't this restful? And isn't that moon glorious?" Mrs. Kelsey shot a quick look at her husband; then she cleared her throat nervously. "Er yes," she assented. "I I s'pose you know what it's made of, an' how big 'tis, an' an' what there is on it, don't ye, Alma?" Alma raised her eyebrows.
She is gentle and wise and good, and she seems to take her place here very sweetly, doesn't she? She seems really to belong here, don't you think so? Helen could not answer that question. 'Do you want me to tell you whether you care for her? she asked. He laughed. 'I suppose I do. 'And, on the whole, you hope I'll tell you that you do. 'Well, yes, he assented.
He continued his remarks, by making suggestions as to the course we would feel it best to pursue about a burying-place for our little daughter, in case of a refusal of Friends to allow a plain marble slab, with her name and date of birth and death in their burying-ground; and suggested the corner of our orchard as a pleasant place, to which I assented.
They demanded that I should be in their kingdom, and I refused. They demanded that I should prevent the English and Griquas from passing. I replied, These are my friends, and I can not prevent them. They came on Saturday, and I besought them not to fight on Sunday, and they assented.
We assented, but before we did so, we took another survey of the scene before us.
In arguing a doubtful question of fact before a jury, the general propositions or principles to which the advocate appeals are mostly, in themselves, sufficiently trite, and assented to as soon as stated: his skill lies in bringing his case under those propositions or principles; in calling to mind such of the known or received maxims of probability as admit of application to the case in hand, and selecting from among them those best adapted to his object.
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