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Vice will be exposed in this community, and the workers of iniquity receive their reward," responded Mrs. Wynn, oracularly, and pursing up her thin lips and sniffing her sharp nose higher in the air; "we must ferret this out, Betsey." "We must, indeed," echoed the spinster, looking as if nothing would delight her more; "such a state of affairs cannot be tolerated in our midst."
'You're not at all in love with her any more? 'After twenty years? And she a Queen? I hope I know my place. 'But if you were to meet her again? 'I should probably suffer a horrible disillusion. 'But you have found, at any rate, that "first love is best"? 'First and last. The last shall be first, he said oracularly. 'Don't you smoke? she asked. 'Oh, one by one you drag my vices from me.
By endurance they are strengthened, by suffering chastened; so let them endure and suffer." She would cleave to this view with many variations of pity. Merthyr's experience was tolerant to the weaker vessel's young delight in power, which makes her sometimes, though sweet and merciful by nature, enunciate Hebraic severities oracularly.
And to-day, complacent enough, he sat upon the rickety fence at home, oracularly disparaging the equestrian accomplishments of the town's noted champion. "I dunno I dunno," said his young companion doubtfully. "Hackett sets mighty firm onto his saddle. He's ez straight ez any shingle, an' ez tough ez a pine-knot. He come up hyar las' summer war it las' summer, now?
"Very well just imagine that I am an oracle, and come to me with some question; I'll answer you." "But you can't tell what's going to happen?" "No matter you ask me truly, and I'll answer you oracularly." "That means, like an oracle, I suppose?" said Ellen. "Well, Mr. John, will Alice be pleased with what I am going to give her New Year?"
"'A Loaf of Bread, and Thou beside me in the Wilderness' doesn't appeal to me in the least." "It will one day," retorted Gillian oracularly. "In the meantime you might go on telling me about the man who fished you out of the smash. Was he young? And good-looking? Perhaps he is destined to be your fate." "He was rather over thirty, I should think. And good-looking quite.
"Still, I think the Princess open to criticism," said Sir Midas oracularly. "Damn all criticism and critics!" burst out McFeckless, with the noble frankness of a passionate and yet unfettered soul. Sir Midas, who employed critics in his business, as he did other base and ignoble slaves, drew up himself and his paunch and walked away. The Chevalier cast a superb look at McFeckless. "Voila!
"Yet a true woman," said the Baroness, oracularly, "will follow a husband " "Till his wife makes her stop," said the little Grand Duke, his tone implying that he knew whereof he spoke. " and if the Grand Duchess loved you " "Oh, I think she would never mention it," said the Grand Duke, revolving in his mind this novel idea. "She has a great regard for appearances." "Nevertheless "
It might be heard, it would seem, in proportion as men were in touch with the Earth itself, in country life, in manual work upon it, above all by the open grave, as if, reminiscent of some older, deeper, more permanent ground of fact, it whispered then oracularly a certain secret to those who came into such close contact with it. Persistent after-thought!
And as for the crime of disobedience, it will not be gainsaid that a large part of the responsibility fell on the shoulders of the lawgivers in Paris, whose decrees, coming oracularly from Olympian heights without reference to local or other concrete circumstances, inflicted heavy losses in blood and substance on the ill-starred people of Rumania.
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