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His style is singularly fascinating, graceful, various, subtle, and with a charm all its own. Works, Edinburgh ed. Life by Grahame Balfour , Letters, S. Colvin . Philosopher, s. of Matthew S., Prof. of Mathematics at Edin., was b. in the Coll. buildings, and at the age of 19 began to assist his f. in his classes, receiving the appointment of regular assistant two years later.
It must be a strictly logical result of all that has preceded it. Having begun with a certain intention, the true artist must complete his pattern, in accordance with laws more rigid than those of life; and he must not disrupt his design by an illogical intervention of the long arm of coincidence. Stevenson has stated this point in a letter to Mr. Sidney Colvin: "Make another end to it?
The little lady seemed to have thought of everything to make the day pleasant to them. Mrs. Fairchild's children were not so rich as Miss Darwell, but they were as well brought up; and Mrs. Colvin had heard this, and was glad to have the opportunity of seeing these children.
Your father's name, now, was " "Amos Colvin, sir." "Good Lord!" exclaimed Standifer, rising and unbuttoning his tight coat, excitedly. "Are you Amos Colvin's daughter? Why, ma'am, Amos Colvin and me were thicker than two hoss thieves for more than ten years! We fought Kiowas, drove cattle, and rangered side by side nearly all over Texas. I remember seeing you once before, now.
"He has to get out. What are you going to do?" He had Weston's answer immediately. "Ask you for my time." "Well," said Colvin, with a gesture of expostulation, "I guess you know your own business. Still, I'm quite willing to keep you."
Armour had had the presence of mind to send for Colvin; but presently, when the general spoke, she thought it better that Marion should go, and counselled returning to breakfast and not making the matter of too much importance.
He had a sort of target on the window, and every time he blew a putty ball Mrs. Doubletongue heard the spirit. Am I right, sir?" The host bowed. "The fumes, whatever they were, killed swiftly?" "They did. Instantly; mercifully. Too mercifully." "How could you know it was fumes?" demanded Mr. Thomas Colvin McIntyre.
Writing to Sir Sidney Colvin, she says: "I am very much exercised by one thing. Louis has the most enchanting material that any one ever had in the whole world for his book, and I am afraid he is going to spoil it all. Louis says it is a stern sense of duty that is at the bottom of it, which is more alarming than anything else ... What a thing it is to have a man of genius to deal with!
Then Grenfell came to him with a rueful face. "I've had an interview with the manager," he explained. "Well," said Weston, sharply, "what did he say?" Grenfell shrugged his shoulder. "Told me to get out of camp right away." Just then Colvin approached them, and his manner was for once slightly deprecatory. "It doesn't pay to know more than the boss," he said; and then he looked at Weston.
The Legislative Committee having secured a bill allowing women to watch at the polls, watchers' schools were held in every important city under the direction of Mrs. Colvin, with the result that at the election 1,657 of the 1,891 polling places in the State were supplied with trained women watchers.
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