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After taps that is, when by the regulations of the Academy all the lights were supposed to be extinguished, and everybody in bed Slocum and I would hang a blanket over the one window of our room and continue our studies he guiding me around scores of stumbling-blocks in Algebra and elucidating many knotty points in other branches of the course with which I was unfamiliar.
I was with the Queen when the King, having finished his researches, informed her that he had not found anything among the secret papers elucidating the existence of this prisoner; that he had conversed on the matter with M. de Maurepas, whose age made him contemporary with the epoch during which the story must have been known to the ministers; and that M. de Maurepas had assured him he was merely a prisoner of a very dangerous character, in consequence of his disposition for intrigue.
And, therefore, taking for granted that there is energy and intellect enough in Winchester to conquer these difficulties in due time, I go on to ask you to consider, for a time, a subject which is growing more and more important and interesting, a subject the study of which will do much towards raising the field naturalist from a mere collector of specimens as he was twenty years ago to a philosopher elucidating some of the grandest problems.
"The speaker made the past a living present, and led the audience, unconscious of time, with him in his walks and talks with famous men. When engrossed in his lecture his facial expression is a study. His countenance conveys more quickly than his words the thought which he is elucidating, and when he refers to his Maker, his face takes on an expression indescribable for its purity.
I shall leave for Paris to-morrow morning, and shall immediately let you know the result of my search. Will that suit you?" "It will suit me when I get hold of Hayle," he replied. "Until then I shall know no peace. Surely you must understand that?" Then, imagining perhaps, that he had gone too far, he began to fawn upon me, and what was worse praised my methods of elucidating a mystery.
"That will do, Margaret," said the teacher. "We will next ask you, Marion, to assist us in further elucidating the subject.
Balder Plowden a tall, heavily-built youth, with enormous shoulders and thick, hard hands, and pale straw-coloured hair and brows and eyelashes had amiably sauntered beside him, and was elucidating for his benefit now, in slow, halting undertones, some unfathomable mystery connected with the varying attitude of two distinct breeds of terriers toward rats.
The Greek historian invented speeches for his principal characters; this was a conventional way of elucidating the situation for the benefit of his readers. Everyone knows how Thucydides, the most conscientious historian in antiquity, habitually uses this device, and how candidly he explains his method.
The illustrations of friendly visiting in the preceding pages have been given with a view to elucidating some particular part of visiting work.
So much of the feudal still survives in British society that Mark Twain's merry and elucidating assault on the past seemed to some almost an insult to the present. But no critic, British or American, has ventured to discover any irreverence in 'Joan of Arc, wherein indeed the tone is almost devout and the humor almost too much subdued.
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