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He shrugged one round shoulder, by way of assent, held his head a little on one side and stretched out his black hand with the glass in it, to the light. He tasted it, smelt it, and looked up at Stefanone before he drank in earnest. "Black soul!" he exclaimed by way of an approving asseveration. "This is indeed wine!" "He took it for vinegar!" observed Stefanone, speaking to the air.
At the asseveration, "I can say honestly," a sudden illumination came over her face, as if every cloud had been instantaneously swept away. Persons conversant with such subjects maintain that the plain words, "I will," are generally first used by the bride in church, when she promises to worship M. or N. with her body.
'Is that really all? 'The sum total of the whole, as sure as said Harry, pausing for an asseveration, and ending with 'as sure as your name is Dick May; whereat they both fell a-laughing, though they were hardly drops of laughter that Harry brushed from the weather-marked pucker in the comer of his eyes; and Dr. May gave a sigh of relief, and said, 'Well, that's right!
With this solemn asseveration, which is not lightly made, but which is the result of sixty years' experience, I leave you.
This creature, that looked so like a fiend, came erect into the middle of the tent with a single bound, as if that moment vomited forth by hell, and yet with a grander carriage and princelier presence than he had worn in time of peace; and even as he bounded he crossed his tomahawk and narrow wooden shield, to signify that his answer was no vulgar asseveration, but a vow of sacred war.
This was a matter of great convenience, as he felt no scruple in breaking his asseveration when made in any other form than that which he accounted as peculiarly solemn; and therefore readily granted any engagement which bound him no longer than he inclined.
She labours hard after the marvellous! She has been angling again in the muddy pool of paradox, and has hooked up a new dogma! And what is it? Why nothing less than an asseveration that the promise she made me is not binding! Promises are non-entities: they mean nothing, stand for nothing, and nothing can claim.
All these valorous vaporings had a considerable effect in convincing certain profound sages, who began to think the general a hero, of unmatchable loftiness and magnanimity of soul; particularly as he was continually protesting on the honor of a soldier a marvelously high-sounding asseveration.
To face them would mean useless discussion, useless admission that she could not love him, useless asseveration from him about the girl, which she would not believe, useless denials of all sorts. Hopeless! He was very irritable, and seemed especially to resent her music lessons, alluding to them with a sort of sneering impatience.
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