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Voltaire was furious; he tried to get the courts to take it up, but the prevailing idea was that he had gotten what he deserved, and the fact that the whole affair occurred after dark and the Chevalier did not do the beating in person, made conviction impossible. But Voltaire now quit the anapest and dactyl and devoted his best hours to taking fencing lessons.
"Look here," he began, as soon as the office-boy had closed the door behind him, "this is going it a little too strong." "What is?" I asked, leaning back in my chair and surveying him. "This proposed Maplewood Avenue Franchise. Hugh," he said, "you and I have been friends a good many years, Lucia and I are devoted to Maude." I did not reply.
I think I know almost every town in England, and I never yet in all my wanderings settled at an inn without finding that betting of some sort or other formed the main subject of conversation. Hundreds of times literally hundreds I have known whole evenings devoted to discussing the odds.
Godolphin did not undervalue Lucilla's pure and devoted heart; but he knew that the only sure antidote against the dangers of the world is the knowledge of the world. There was nothing in Lucilla that ever promised to attain that knowledge; her very nature seemed to depend on her ignorance of the nature of others. But I do not seek to excuse it, nor did he wholly excuse it to himself.
And those who have been elected by a band without discipline, by bankrupts and thieves, dare to declare publicly, that the hour has come for these thieves and bankrupts to attack the civilized world! are we not as much devoted to the truth, as they are to the lie? We should not delay to promote our system of salvation, while we are discussing their system of perdition.
I have indeed devoted to this work a degree of research which, if unusual to romance, I cannot consider superfluous when illustrating an age so remote, and events unparalleled in their influence over the destinies of England.
Jefferies was a languid beauty, or rather a languid fine lady who had been a beauty, and who spent all that part of the day which was not devoted to the pleasures of the table, or to reclining on a couch, in dress. She was one day extended on a sofa, fanned by four slaves, two at her head and two at her feet, when news was brought that a large chest, directed to her, was just arrived from London.
The afternoon was to be devoted to hog-shooting, at a spot a short distance off. We were divided into two parties Dick and I accompanied Toa, while another young chief, who had arrived with a number of ugly-looking dogs, led another party. After going some distance we arrived at a spot where the pigs had been rooting about, and away went the curs in chase.
On this a head warrior leaped up, and said they had seen, plain enough, that he was a warrior, and not afraid of dying; nor should he have died, but that he was both spoiled by the fire, and devoted to it by their laws; however, though he was a very dangerous enemy, and his nation a treacherous people, it should appear they paid a regard to bravery, even in one, who was marked over the body with war streaks at the cost of many lives of their beloved kindred.
"I did not mean that; your majesty would find, I am sure, were there occasion, followers as devoted as Salcede." "Well, duke, do not look gloomy; I am sad enough already. Do be gay." "Gayety cannot be forced, sire." The king struck the table angrily. "You are a bad friend," said he; "I lost all, when I lost my former ones."
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