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He never countermanded an order, and never receded from a position once taken, even if in his own heart he recognised later it was an unwise one. But the forethought and caution, the deliberation in decision that were his by nature, made the occasions on which he regretted an order very seldom, and if such there were, no matter, the order stood.
A sin, however, that is committed consciously is never cancelled by righteousness. Thus say the regenerate utterers of Brahma who are conversant with the scriptures of Brahmana. Whatever acts are done by the mind with full deliberation, produce, according to their grossness or subtility, fruits that are gross or subtile.
"I'm afraid it isn't safe to send it that way," he said to himself, balancing the letter on two fingers. "It is so heavy that any one could guess what's in it, and it might wear through. I did want her to have it in gold, but I suppose it will be more sensible to send a postal order." After a moment's deliberation, he turned to the window beside the desk, and asked for a money-order blank.
And this too upon matters which, in earlier stages of a man's existence, admitted of passionate argument and anxious deliberation whether to resolve them thus or thus, with heroic hazard and experiment, which on the losing side proved to be vice, and on the winning virtue.
"Ah! Exactly so," said the chairman, greatly relieved. "Mr. Boggs Perhaps Mr. Boggs will enlighten us." Mr. Boggs arose with ponderous deliberation. "Mr. Chairman," he said, "in one sense Mr. Hayes is right when he states the arrears to be seven hundred dollars " "Five hundred dollars A'm tellin' ye," said Mr. Innes with the first sign of feeling he had shown. "And Mr.
She prayed inwardly that she might meet the ordeal before her with Christian strength and courage. The door opened. She saw two figures in the pretty, bright-colored room, William sat astride upon a chair in front of Kitty, who, like some small mother-bird, hovered above him, holding what seemed to be a tiny strip of bread-and-butter, which she was dropping with dainty deliberation into his mouth.
I cultivated a harsh accent, and spoke with deliberation and coldness occasionally with a sort of sarcastic brusquerie, carefully avoiding the least movement of hands or head during converse.
There was ample room for similar work, of which every good Christian of every school of thought might have approved. And there were many occasions on which it would appear, primâ facie, that synodal deliberation might have proved of immense benefit to the Church.
With most men marriage is un fait accompli. Jack had been lucky, but there was, no doubt, truth in an observation of Mavick's. One night as they sat at the club Jack had asked him a leading question, apropos of Henderson's successful career: "Mavick, why don't you get married?" "I have never," he replied, with his usual cynical deliberation, "been obliged to. The fact is, marriage is a curb-bit.
Not being overgifted with the good things of this world the younger sons of old British families seldom are he had, after mature deliberation, determined to try his fortunes in Canada, and settle upon the grant of 400 acres of land ceded by the Government to officers upon half-pay. Emigration, in most cases and ours was no exception to the general rule is a matter of necessity, not of choice.
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