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"Certainly," said the girl, unhesitatingly. "I said that I thought I recognized the sound of Bob's .450. Why shouldn't I say it? Poor Bob didn't shoot his father." Her voice, though singularly musical, had a tearful ring which became almost hysterical in the vehemence of the question and its disclaimer.
The prisoner began with a modest disclaimer, saying that after the labours of Erasmus and Beza, Maldonatus and Jasenius, there was little for him to glean.
He had no intention of being disloyal to her old guardian, but he felt that Pendleton had not been frank with him since his return from Rosario. Had he ever been so with HER? He sometimes doubted his disclaimer. He was lucky in finding the General disengaged, and together they dined at a restaurant and spent the evening at the Kursaal.
Lockhart, whose general critical opinions deserve the profoundest respect, thought differently thought it, indeed, 'the most pure and perfect of all the tragedies that Scott ever penned. Perhaps there is something in this of the same ingenuity which Scott himself showed in his disclaimer to Murray quoted above, for tragedy per se was certainly not Scott's forte to the same extent as were comedy and history.
With how divine an accent did her full low voice give him the name to which he had dared aspire! He was God and her God! He perhaps divined one part of the process through which her mind must have gone; but he could not find a word to answer, whether of acceptance or disclaimer. He turned pale, his heart sick. Had the recognition of his Godhood been too tardy?
Verena sat there smiling, without a blush, but with a pure, bright look which, for her, would always make protests unnecessary. "Oh, it isn't me, you know; it's something outside!" She tossed this off lightly, as if she were in the habit of saying it, and Olive wondered whether it were a sincere disclaimer or only a phrase of the lips.
But again came silently swelling over him like a flood all that ancient peace, and quietude, and dignity, which looked so stately and beautiful as brooding round the old house; all that blessed order of ranks, that sweet superiority, and yet with no disclaimer of common brotherhood, that existed between the English gentleman and his inferiors; all that delightful intercourse, so sure of pleasure, so safe from rudeness, lowness, unpleasant rubs, that exists between gentleman and gentleman, where, in public affairs, all are essentially of one mind, or seem so to an American politician, accustomed to the fierce conflicts of our embittered parties; where life was made so enticing, so refined, and yet with a sort of homeliness that seemed to show that all its strength was left behind; that seeming taking in of all that was desirable in life, and all its grace and beauty, yet never giving life a hard enamel of over-refinement.
"My dear Irene," she said, "I hope you will not allow that stupid dispute of yesterday to worry you into sleepless nights." "But I have slept quite a long time," was the girl's smiling disclaimer. "Well, now let us consider. Mr. Royson left the camp about ten o'clock. A young lady who shall be nameless said good-bye to him half an hour later " "You saw me?" Irene flushed scarlet. "No, indeed.
But while, in harmony with your intimation, I must regard you one of the animalcules, rearing the coral reef of public opinion, I cannot admit your disclaimer of "special influence" among them in their work. Doubtless, sir, you have "special influence," and deserve to have. I make no apology for addressing you. I am one of the animalcules. I agree, and I disagree, with you.
But, in spite of his disclaimer, he devoutly desired to be where the original text and his written comment upon it were at that moment which, indeed, was a consummation even more devoutly to be wished than he had any suspicion of. The Marrow minister leaned his head on his hand and looked waitingly at the young man. Ralph recalled himself with an effort.
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