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The Greek had arrived to the end of the First Night, in which Schezehezerade commences her story, and the Sultan, who was anxious to hear the termination of it, defers her execution to the following day. "Stop," cried the pacha, taking the pipe from his lips; "how long before the break of day did that girl call her sister?" "About half an hour, your sublime highness."
If he knows nothing of the earlier work, and the mother begins with the young birds in the nest, according to his age and surroundings he should be told more or less, the mother always remembering that if she defers too long somebody may anticipate her with the kind of information she particularly desires to avoid.
"An observer deeply impressed by any remarkable spectacle," says Johnson, "does not suppose that the traces will soon vanish from his mind, and having commonly no great convenience for writing, defers the description to a time of more leisure and better accommodation.
"As his business manager I am responsible for him, after a fashion. I was glad to see Loring to-night glad he has come back. Kent defers to him more than he does to any one else; and Loring is a solid, sober-minded sort." "Yes," she agreed; "I was glad, too."
"'No, I defers them offers to moments when I'm more robust, says Enright. "'You shore oughter rode at her while you're sick that a-way, remonstrates Boggs. 'That's the time to set your stack down.
This is like God's sending of plenty in Egypt just before the years of famine came. Christians, even righteous men, are apt to lean too much to their own doings; and God, to wean them from them, ofttimes defers to do what they by doing expect, even until in doing their spirits are spent, and they as to doing can do no longer.
The knives and forks were not very bright in fact, they had been subjected to influences promotive of oxidation; and the dishes were not free from signs of former use. Nothing could be said against the tablecloth there was no tablecloth there. But the goose was fat, brown, and tender; and a hungry man defers his criticisms until he is done eating. That is what I did.
And every hour new signs of promise tell That the great soul shall once again be free; For high and yet more high the murmurs swell Of inward strife for truth and liberty." "When the toiler's heart you clutch, Conscience is not valued much; He recks not a bloody smutch On his gold; Everything to you he defers, You are potent reasoners; At your whisper Treason stirs, Hunger and Cold!"
Nelson was visibly disturbed by the rector's firm hold on the situation. "But," he stuttered, "Mr. Bascom is the richest man in the parish, and his influence is strong. You will find that everyone defers to his judgment as a matter of course." "All right; then let me add, for your own information, that I can earn my living honestly in this town and take care of myself without Mr.
"Oh!" said he, "tell him, his repentance will make him a very good minister to his spouse, and qualify him to preach on the mercy and long suffering of a merciful Being, who desires not the death of a sinner, and even defers damnation to the last judgment; this will lead him to the doctrine of the resurrection and will make him an excellent preacher to his wife."
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