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Even here her fate was against her. If she had not been a woman, she would have mourned the ill-luck that brought her into the world rather late for the anti-slavery agitation. The malicious rumor, by-the-way, which declared that she wore a bib and tucker at the time of Jackson's war with the United States Bank, was wickedly false.
"We will go to him, look over his list of camps, and select one to suit us." "By-the-way," said Mrs. Dearborn, "a thought has struck me. How would you like to take Margery with you?" "Margery!" exclaimed Mr. Archibald. "That delightful little girl whom I taught to ride a tricycle when you were visiting us? I would like it ever so much." It struck Mrs.
"I should be so much happier if you could do something about it." "Well, it don't matter much. I guess the assignees can make Mrs. Mavick believe easy enough that certain things belong to her. But I would not do it for any other living being but you." "By-the-way," he added, "there is another bit of property that I didn't take, the Newport palace."
"Go on wid yer sacrifice, me dear felly. I presume, av coorse, that it will be in ordher for me to ate some av it. Let the fishes be well cooked, by-the-way, and sarved wid some kind av sauce. I'd almost as lave be devoured meself as devour raw fishes." "Really, I have some scruples," smiled the mischievous professor. "You might shock the devotional feelings of your new worshippers."
"I know better." "What do you propose doing when you get home?" "What can I do with thirty dollars, which I left with Peter by-the-way?" "We shall see what we shall see when we come face to face with Aunt Formica. I intend going the rounds with you in New York. I am a student." He carried Osgood to his country-home beyond Liverpool, where they staid till the ship was ready to sail again.
"You'll find her an uncommonly useful woman, if she takes a fancy to you; for she knows everybody and goes everywhere, though her own house is too small to entertain properly. By-the-way, Macleod, I don't think you could have hit on a worse fellow than I to take you about, for I am so little in London that I have become a rank outsider.
This, by-the-way, must be regarded as a confidential communication, since I am at present engaged in preparing a vest-pocket edition of the philosophical works of Schopenhauer in words of one syllable, and were it known that the publisher had intrusted the magnificent pessimism of that illustrious juggler of words and theories to a "moteless sunbeam" it might seriously interfere with the sale of the work; and I may say, too, that this request that my confidence be respected is entirely disinterested, inasmuch as I declined to do the work on the royalty plan, insisting upon the payment of a lump sum, considerably in advance.
"I don't quite know," she said. "It sounds rather appalling, doesn't it? Marian has such an extraordinary fashion of hurling people at each other's heads! She takes my breath away at times." "Ah, well," said Ste. Marie, "perhaps we can settle upon something when I've led you to the place where food is. And, by-the-way, what are we waiting for? Are we not all here? There's an even number."
"By-the-way," said Charlie, drawing his horse up alongside the dun-colored mare, "Joe Smith, north of us, says some neighbor of his told him there were tents on the plains further north. I was wondering. The troops haven't been sent for, have they?" "Can't say," said Rube, without much interest. Then he asked hastily, "Which way was she headin'?"
"All right," said Chide; "so long as the Herald and the Flag do their duty. By-the-way, hasn't the Herald got a new editor?" "Yes; a man called Barrington a friend of Oliver's." "Ah! a good deal sounder on many points than Oliver!" grumbled Sir James. Ferrier did not reply. Chide noticed the invariable way in which Marsham's name dropped between them whenever it was introduced in this connection.
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