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He enters the Last Chance Saloon down at the foot of the street and in a minute or two is out again, wiping his mustache on the back of his hand. We may safely opine that he has been taking a small ad. out in trade. At the door of the county courthouse, where he may intercept the taxpayers as they come and go, is stationed our old friend, Colonel Pro Bono Publico.
That there had been already great miracles, as those of Scripture, as the Resurrection, was a fact establishing the principle that the laws of nature had sometimes been suspended by their Divine Author; and since what had happened once might happen again, a certain probability, at least no kind of improbability, was attached to the idea, taken in itself, of miraculous intervention in later times, and miraculous accounts were to be regarded in connection with the verisimilitude, scope, instrument, character, testimony, and circumstances, with which they presented themselves to us; and, according to the final result of those various considerations, it was our duty to be sure, or to believe, or to opine, or to surmise, or to tolerate, or to reject, or to denounce.
"'The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at His reproof ... The thunder of His power, who can understand?" replied Effie Challoner reverently. "That's it!" he replied. "I opine that Job was pretty correct in his ideas don't you, reverend sir?" turning to Father Paul. The priest nodded, and held up his finger warningly. "That lady Mrs.
"That is fortunate, indeed," exclaimed Lawrence, turning round suddenly, and encountering Colonel Armytage's gaze fixed on him. "Why is it fortunate?" asked the colonel. "Because he is, I opine, a very brave officer, as your daughter says, good sir," answered Lawrence. And away he shuffled down the steps. There was a pause of some duration.
The ghost of a flush appeared in his cheeks. 'You ask about General Hannay? I'm not just exactly sure where Dick is at the moment, but I opine he's in Italy. I kicked aside the screen, thereby causing Amos almost to fall on his face. 'I'm back, I said, and pulled up an arm-chair, and dropped into it. I think the sight of me was the last straw for Ivery.
"Of all those names the one I should opine might fit him best, but for his ugliness, is that of Marie," answered the foreigner, leering, and with a contemptuous shrug he turned again to mount the carriage. At that all Garnache's self-control deserted him, and he did a thing deplorable.
"Not having risen to any later title," said Wilbur good-humoredly, "I've got to be satisfied with the one I started with. I'm generally called Wilbur." "Which is sure unfamiliar to me. I opine it's a new brand on the range." He flourished his sombrero in salute, so that his pony bucked twice and then tried to bolt.
"The preacher told me," I broke forth indignantly, determined to test him to the full, "that this same sweet Naladi compelled her savage minions to drag Madame harshly forth from the altar-house, despite her pleadings. Perchance this tender-spoken Queen has little of the angel beneath her fairness of skin." "Sacre! I hope not. I opine an angel would prove wearisome to company with for long.
We have not danced yet, and therefore have not had occasion to speak to any of the fair sex." Frank rested his hands on his hips and eyed them searchingly. "I have the word of the lady herself," he said. "I don't opine you're going to dispute a lady?"
Rashleigh and I stared in silence at this unexpected intruder, who proceeded to exhort us alternately: "Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow?
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