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He had not thought of this; there was a new complication. "Almayer must die," said Lakamba, decisively, "to make our secret safe. He must die quietly, Babalatchi. You must do it." Babalatchi assented, and rose wearily to his feet. "To-morrow?" he asked. "Yes; before the Dutch come. He drinks much coffee," answered Lakamba, with seeming irrelevancy.
"Why?" asked Diana, secretly astonished by the irrelevancy of the remark. Lucian plucked a red rose from the bush which grew near the statue and placed it on the pedestal. "Because I would lay my offering at the feet of the goddess, and touch her knees to demand a boon." "What boon would you ask?" said Diana in a low voice.
From sport and its justification, they became inconsequential; and she was beginning to enjoy the freshness of their chance acquaintance, his nice attitude toward things, his irrelevancy, his gaiety.
Back of us a ragged and wild landscape being broken or leveled by builders, by the opening of streets and roads. Abigail was truly my friend, wise and sympathetic. Her clear-cut thinking sheared away accidental things, fringes of irrelevancy. I was so glad to get her opinion on the various things that perplexed me. She advised me to make the best fight I could against Fortescue.
In a tone of forceful mildness the speaker began: "It must be conceded that, other things being equal, and granting the investiture of all insensate communication, that a psychic moment may or may not, in accordance with what under no circumstances could be termed irrelevancy, become warily regarded as a coherent symbol by one obviously of a trenchant humor.
We've got an awfully big house, you know, and of course I want to keep everything as nice as if Mother were up. Everybody expects me to do that!" "I had a great-aunt," began Rankin with willful irrelevancy, "a very wonderful old woman who taught me most of what I value. She was considered cracked, so maybe that's why I am a freak, and she was as wise as wise!
Boys, we felt to be their special danger; none others were of that exact pitch of cheerful irrelevancy to exercise a kindred sway upon their minds: but before the attractions of a boy their most settled resolutions would be war.
I almost laughed, picturing the scene the girl bewildered by his absurd question Grayson calm, superbly courteous. It was a mental peculiarity of his this irrelevancy and it was like him to end a matter of life and death in just that way. "I told her I should send her one.
Then he resumed didactically, but with some irrelevancy, "I tole ye t'other day ez how ye war old enough ter be a-studyin' 'bout gittin' married." "They don't think nothin' of ye ter our house, Jacob. Dad 's always a-jowin' at ye." Cynthia's candor certainly could not be called in question.
By the irrelevancy of the punishment to the crime, and by the intrusion of secondary matters into the complaint, the "Chesapeake" issue, essentially clear, sharp, and impressive, became hopelessly confused with other considerations.
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