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Perhaps little persuasion was necessary for a second reading of so delightful a novel as Waverley, but the author's piquant notes to the present edition would alike tempt the matter-of-fact man, and the inveterate novel reader to "begin again."
There was Olga, sitting in his window, all unasked, and demanding lunch, with her silly ridiculous crystal in her hand, wondering if Lucia was psychical. Her silvery laugh was a little shrill. It started a full tone above its normal pitch. "No, dear Miss Bracely," she said. "I am afraid I am much too commonplace and matter-of-fact to care about such things.
He was holding something to her lips, and she drank mechanically. "That's better," he said. "You've had a rough time, I'm afraid, but it's over now. Think you can walk, or shall we carry you?" The matter-of-fact tones seemed to calm the chaos of her brain. She looked up at him with a faint, brave smile. "I will walk, of course. There is nothing the matter with me. What has happened at Kurrumpore?
But it was even more remarkable because of the transformation that took place in the travelers. For a mob of four millions of people was changed into a well-organized nation. The explanation given is fully as remarkable as the trip, and the transformation. It must strike very strangely on the cold, matter-of-fact ears of this materialistic world we dwell in.
He said to me one day, with a face of great solemnity, "What must have been that man's feelings, who thought himself the first deist?" ... He knew how many false conclusions and pretensions are made by men who profess to be guided by facts only, as if facts could not be misconceived, or figments taken for them; and therefore, one day, when somebody was speaking of a person who valued himself on being a matter-of-fact man, "Now," said he, "I value myself on being a matter-of-lie man."
He had never seen her, but knew that this grave, hard-featured person, not totally unlike a born gentlewoman, must be Mary Woodruff. And in her eyes he read a suspicion of his own identity. 'Is Miss. Lord at home? he asked, in a matter-of-fact way. 'Yes. What name shall I mention? 'Mr. Tarrant. Her eyes fell, and she requested him to enter, to wait in the hall for a moment; then went upstairs.
Sooth to say, I might not stand there gawking. Once, by a demure sideways glance, she betrayed knowledge of my presence. Her own transaction was all matter-of-fact, as if engaging passage to Benton of Wyoming Territory contained no novelty for her. Could she by any chance live there a woman dressed like she was, as much
The matter-of-fact Scot felt a strange sensation as of the presence of some greater power. "The sacrifice, Duncan?" he asked in a tone of surprise. "Ye ken they will na' heed the one great Sacrifice that's already been made." "Yes, oh yes, that's jist it, Andra." Duncan's voice sank to a whisper. "They have rejected the Sacrifice and the Lord will require one from among us.
"Oh, I don't mean that I didn't want to come," protested Leslie, flushing a little. "I I've been thinking of coming but it isn't always easy for me to get away." "Of course it must be hard for you to leave Mr. Moore," said Anne, in a matter-of-fact tone.
I next told him in as matter-of-fact a manner as possible how I examined the bag, and how, when all other hope of a clue to the owner failed, I read Miss Jenrys' letters; how, when the first letter failed to give me the owner's address, I read the second in full.
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