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The short-lived treaty, for which the sanguine Mr Stanhope claimed that it had gained for England 'a friendly, an independent, and a strong Afghanistan, may now be chiefly remembered because of the circumstance that it gave effect for the moment to Lord Beaconsfield's 'scientific frontier.
I went up to him and said, 'is all well? He answered, 'Behold this strange sight; mermen are dancing in the stream, with pearl, oysters, and branches of coral in their hands. If any other had related this circumstance so contrary to reason, I should not, indeed, have believed it. I imagined what my brother said to be true, and bent down my head to look at it.
As soon as he received the letter, he dismissed his attendants, and began to prepare for his journey to Macedonia; and a few days after set out. This circumstance saved the money at Ephesus.
At this time the buffaloes were attended with their young ones, who were striking about them; and it appeared that the elks would soon exhibit the same enlivening circumstance.
Such circumstance is sufficiently characteristic of both the workmen and the work. All is mere show and pretense.
And, thereupon, with the volubility of a man whose head is easily unhinged, he gave him several orders respecting the vehicles and the transport service, deploring the circumstance that it would be impossible to conduct the patients to the Grotto immediately on their arrival, as it was yet so extremely early.
Perhaps I was conscious, too, that it would be impossible for me to come to a decision on the spot. One circumstance, he continued, had given him hope that I might feel ready to make the sacrifice he asked, provided that I returned his love, and that was the earnest spirit of interest I had shown in the work he had undertaken.
The consequence was that he was hardly civil to him, a circumstance which L was slow either to notice or resent. It happened, one day, that the tailor of Briarly asked him if he knew any thing about L . "Not much," replied Briarly. "Why do you ask?" "Do you think him a gentleman?" "How do you estimate a gentleman?" asked the young man. "A gentleman is a man of honour," returned the tailor.
He must also reserve another case for his opposition; and this would be, if the evils of which it took cognizance should appear not to have been well founded. He had written to his constituents to be made acquainted with this circumstance, and he must be guided by them on the subject. Mr. Martin was surprised how any person could give an opposition to such a bill.
It didn't seem quite the right remark under the circumstance, but there was a power of truth back of it. That girl of mine was regularly struck on Old Dibs, and, being a Tongan, was full of the Old Nick, and would have bit my ear off if I had lifted my hand to him.
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