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Updated: June 28, 2025
Some kind friend of Messrs. Maskelyne and Cook suggested that they were the only persons who could have done the deed, as no one else could get out of a locked cabinet. But perhaps the most brilliant of these flashes of false fire was the facetious, yet probably half-seriously meant letter that appeared in the Pell Mell Press under the heading of
"Please don't be a goose, dear! I never said a Volunteer wasn't more comfortable to live with. Those professionals are here to-day and gone tomorrow sometimes even sooner." "Not to mention," added the Doctor, more than half-seriously, "that life with them is dreadfully insecure." "Oh! I would never seriously advise a friend of mine to marry a regular soldier.
What is there in me more than any other woman that you should love; except " and here she raised her face half-seriously, half in play "I am very beautiful? Ah! if I were a man, I would have something else to be loved for; I would have eloquence, or strength, or power of command, or wisdom in philosophy.
"Is this really the fountain Ponce de Leon thought would give eternal youth?" asked Ruth, half-seriously, as they stood near the little roofed-over spring. "That is the legend," declared Paul. "Of course that's not saying it's so. But the spring has one peculiar quality." "What's that?" asked Russ. "The waters rise and fall without any particular cause.
They're not common in historic mansions, far from large population centers, so one doesn't expect to find them there. My reasons for not recognizing Camillion, without Allen's identification, are exactly the same as yours." "It's just that we expect you to know everything," Scotty said half-seriously. "Then I'm glad you're learning better.
He rose for the supper was finished and the company beginning to move and laid his hand for an instant on Calvert's broad young shoulder. "Mr. Calvert," he said, half-mockingly, half-seriously, "do not be too hard upon us! There are some excuses to be made. In your country all things are new your laws, your habits, your civilization are yet plastic. See that you mould them well!
He then half-seriously asked whether there was not something going forward about a marriage; to which he received a most decided and positive denial. "I cannot and will not have any reserve with you," he proceeded. "I will tell you at once what my own feelings are, and what I intend to do.
Your namesake would have scorned its limitations, and your young figure will be far lovelier and more graceful, to say nothing of the benefit to yourself and future generations, if you heave your armor plate overboard." It was all said half-jestingly, half-seriously, but Juno gave her head a superior little toss as she answered: "And go looking like a meal sack?
She almost added, "And it is she whom your stepmother is jealous of," but she pulled herself up in time. "What a lot you seem to know about Holliday," remarked Roger half-quizzically, half-seriously, eyeing her over the menu. She laughed cheerfully. "I do. I told you he interested me as a type. Caviare or grape-fruit? Oh, caviare. I feel like it, somehow."
What then are we to make of a remark like the following, made by Professor J. J. Thomson, perhaps only half-seriously, to the British Association at Cambridge, in 1904? "There was one law," he said, "which he felt convinced nobody who had worked on this question" the radio-activity of matter "would ever suggest, and that was the constancy of Nature."
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