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Then he called to mind the noble life of the country doctor, all made up of courage and self-denial; he recalled his death, above all his death, and said to himself: "In paradise; he can be nowhere but in paradise. The good God may have sent him to purgatory just for form's sake but he must have delivered him after five minutes."
Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some skylarking bout he had denied it for form's sake and because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from principle.
"Very Young" Gayerson, he was called to distinguish him from his father "Young" Gayerson, a Bengal Civilian, who affected the customs as he had the heart of youth. "Very Young" Gayerson was not content to worship placidly and for form's sake, as the other young men did, or to accept a ride or a dance, or a talk from the Venus Annodomini in a properly humble and thankful spirit.
The effect of the narrative was, however, all that I could have desired: the worthy magistrate asked me a few questions, as he was pleased to observe, for form's sake, relative to the contents of the valise, which he had himself inspected, and I replied satisfactorily.
In short, the Spanish policy was in the ascendant, and no thought of the national interest or honor could restrain that basest of courts from abandoning by hundreds to the national enemy those whom it was itself meditating to immolate by thousands. It might protest for form's sake, or to quiet public clamor; but Philip of Spain well knew that it would end in patient submission.
Every one in the room must have known and realised that he had not wilfully sought this quarrel, that throughout he had borne himself as any gentleman would, yet now, when the issue was so close at hand, no one came forward to stand by him. "For form's sake, monsieur, will you choose your seconds?"
"'Fraid I lost my temper," he said casually, for form's sake. "But you put my blood up." Chandranath's fingers lay limply in his grasp. "Still so sensitive ? Then better to clear out of India. I only pushed that crazy girl aside. Englishmen knock and kick our people without slightest compunction. Perhaps you are a tourist or new to this country?"
Although there was no actual necessity for another doctor nursing and watching being, as the physician had observed, all that Miss Halcombe required I should still, if my authority had been consulted, have obtained professional assistance from some other quarter, for form's sake. The matter did not seem to strike Sir Percival in that light.
"Then you should have propitiated her by asking leave after the Scripture was done," said Agatha; "you might have known she would not let you off that." "Bother," said Vera again; "just like an M.A." "I did forget," said Paula; "and you know it was only just going through a lesson for form's sake, like the old superlative."
Carmina was still waiting and there was nothing further to be gained by returning to the subject of her mother with such a man as Benjulia. Ovid held out his hand to say good-bye. Taking the offered hand readily enough, the doctor repeated his odd question "I haven't been rude, have I?" with an unpleasant appearance of going through a form purely for form's sake.
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