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"Why not, if you chose a wife with money?" "Then she'd have to support me. Besides, I expect it would be hard to find a rich girl willing to marry a poor engineer." Allott made a sign of impatience. "Let's be frank! The matter's delicate, and perhaps requires a lighter touch than mine, but I understand that Helen has given you a hint." "She has," said Thirlwell, with some grimness.
Now, tell me, Brandon, and pray do speak in answer to my questions, and please to forget you are dealing with a woman. Can my nephew be rescued from the consequences of his folly? Is what he has done legitimate? Is he bound for life by what he has done while a boy? "Well a," Brandon breathed through his teeth. "A hm! the matter's so very delicate, you see, Helen."
"And being made the laughing-stock of all the folks among whom I mean to spend my days," interrupted Balfour. "No, no. If we go, I'll not have a soul to know of it. And mind you, if this turns out to be a mare's nest, I sha'n't be pleased, my friend." "It will not do that, Sir, you may take my word for it," answered Solomon, earnestly; "and as for going incog., that matter's easy.
"I defend him whenever the matter's discussed." "I hope you do." "Without approving his folly. I can't wash him clean." They were at the Hall-doors. She waited for any personal communications he might be pleased to make, and as there was none, she ran upstairs to her room. He had tossed her to Vernon in his mind, not only painlessly, but with a keen acid of satisfaction. The heart is the wizard.
If you ask me what o'clock it is and I tell you that I live at 95 Irving Street, my answer may indeed be true, but you don't see why it is my duty to give it. A false address would be as much to the purpose. When Berkeley had explained what people meant by matter, people thought that he denied matter's existence. When Messrs.
"That's all right, Bob," Earle was saying. "John or I will look after him till the matter's settled." Then, said Kelley, he would be going before the storm broke. He went down the steps and down the walk. There was no sun now. Mrs. Davis rose. She was a stout, motherly woman. She was dressed up as if it were Sunday. Mr. Davis rose, too.
"Nothing very, perhaps; but the matter's simply this: I've been fool enough to play cards with him for rather high stakes lately, and I fancy that I've detected my man peeping over my cards, and using a little sleight of hand in his shuffling too." "I'll be bound he has," remarked the other.
Arrived at this, he said: 'Look here, Tom. I know your ways. I shouldn't have bothered you here; I never have before; but we couldn't very well talk it over in business hours; and besides you're never at the Brewery till Monday, and the matter's rather urgent. 'Why don't you speak like that in Parliament? the old man interposed. 'Because Parliament isn't my brother, replied Mr. Andrew.
"Please, please go and see! Oh, if 'tis Billy Blee come to grief, faither will be lost. Do 'e run, Mr. Grimbal Jan, I mean. If any grave matter's failed out, send them bwoys off red-hot for doctor." "Stop here, then. If any ugly thing has happened, there need be no occasion for you to see it."
We ourselves are matter all our ideas are derived from matter and yet such is the singularly perverse character of human intellect that, while resolutely denying the possibility of matter's eternity, an immense number of our race embrace the incredible proposition that matter was created in time by a necessarily existing Being, who is without body, parts, passions, or positive nature!
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