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"And do you WANT that?" "Of course," said Strether, "I want it. I want to play fair." But she had lost for a moment the thread. "If it devolves on the Pococks why do you stay?" "Just to see that I DO play fair and a little also, no doubt, that they do." Strether was luminous as he had never been.
Like the Arabs of the north, their chieftainship is hereditary, provided the heir be worthy, any act of cowardice disqualifies, and the command devolves upon the next successor. Their guide a sheik, Mina Tahr ben Soogo Lammo, was the seventh in regular succession. This tribe is called Nafra Sunda, and are always near Beere-Kashifery.
He will naturally regard any carelessness or indifference in this respect, at such a time, as a bad augury for the future. The Wedding Cards. The distribution of these has long been regarded as an important social duty; it devolves, as we have already said, on the bridesmaids, who meet for that purpose at the house of the bride's father on the day after the wedding.
Should a siege occur, a new and very important class of duties devolves on them, relating to the trenches, saps, batteries, etc. Not only is there in Virginia a lack of good roads, but the numerous streams have few or no bridges. In many cases where bridges have existed, one or the other of the contending armies has destroyed them to impede the march of its opponents.
For of course so long as a sitter is coldly self-conscious, and fully mindful that he is "being took," his countenance is as stiff, awkward, and constrained as that of a farmer at a dinner-party. Hence the task devolves upon the portrait-artist to bring out, by the magic of his presence, the nature of the subject.
On the other hand, if Johnny should wish to play with a knife or a box of matches, it manifestly devolves upon you to take these objects away from him, no matter how strong his desire to have them may be. But it also devolves upon you to see that such harmful objects are not very easy for him to obtain and to see to it that plenty of other harmless things are provided for him.
I need not say that on such an occasion I cannot spare myself. Mr. Egerton is ill too. All the fatigue of the canvass devolves on me. I feel, my dear and revered friend, that I am a genuine Hazeldean, fighting your battle; and that thought carries me through all. I cannot, therefore, come to you till the election is over; and meanwhile you, and my dear Mrs.
Maynard back to Greenacres the beautiful house which the latter had had built to her own design, overlooking the bay in order to inspect the pretty widow's recent purchase of a new motor-car. Trent turned to Sara with a smile. "Then it devolves on me to see you safely home, Miss Tennant, may I?"
"No; generous as you are," said Arthur, pressing his hand, "this charge devolves on me it is my right. I am the orphan's relation his mother consigned him to me. But he shall be taught to love you not the less." Mr. Spencer was silent. He could not bear the thought of losing Sidney as an inmate of his cheerless home, a tender relic of his early love.
The tribe is ruled by a king, who is not like an Eastern despot, but has about him a council of chiefs, and is bound by the themistes, the traditional customs. There is, besides, the agora, or popular assembly, where debates take place among the chiefs, and to which their decisions, or rather the decision of the king, on whom it devolves finally to determine every thing, are communicated.
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