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Carter," she said pathetically. "Lady Mickleham is, in short," I went on, coming to my peroration, "equally deserving of esteem and affection " "Esteem and affection! That sounds just right," said Dolly approvingly. "And those who have been admitted to the enjoyment of her friendship are unanimous in discouraging all others from seeking a similar privilege."
In his peroration he said: "If the present Government did not exert itself to elevate the condition of the people of Ireland socially as well as politically, and above all, if it did not endeavour to ameliorate the relations between landlord and tenant, that Government will deserve to be expelled from office with public contempt."
If, said Mr Wegg by way of peroration, he had erred in saying only 'Halves! he trusted to his comrade, brother, and partner not to hesitate to set him right, and to reprove his weakness. It might be more according to the rights of things, to say Two-thirds; it might be more according to the rights of things, to say Three-fourths. On those points he was ever open to correction.
Like the models of Greek eloquence, which begin with tame obviousness, rise into dignity, fire, pathos, and then close softly, without sounding peroration, so Xenophon comes upon us, an educated young man, looking out for something to do; we lose him in the autumn of his life, when he was driven from the fair retreat which the old man had hoped would be his final resting-place.
I've seen even the Quartermaster, whose ways do not lie near such matters, hopping about from one leg to the other when Jimmy's peroration rose to its height. "Have you a child, MacNab, a little wee kid?" he would begin. "I have, sargint," MacNab would answer. "Then can you imagine that wee kid with his little hands cut off? Is it a boy, MacNab?" "It is, sargint." "It is. That's good.
"Very well, speak," was the terse reply. This was somewhat disconcerting. Eleanor coughed. "Will you be good enough to state your errand without further peroration. I do not relish being interrupted in my reading." "I I thought I ought to tell you, to show you I mean you ought to see this note which I found," and Eleanor crossed the room to Miss Woodhull's side, the note held toward her.
The peroration was beautifully simple, thrilling the vast throng with a sudden deeper conviction of the speaker's earnestness: "Charity! Oh, of all the flowers that have swung their golden censers in the parterre of the human heart, none so rich, so rare as this one flower of charity.
The peroration is the only other part of my defence I shall venture to quote. It ran as follows: "Gentlemen, carry your minds back across the chasm of eighteen centuries and a half. You are in Jerusalem. A young Jew is haled along the street to the place of judgment. He stands before his judge; he is accused of what, gentlemen?
Raeburn's will had held all those thousands in check; he had kept his bitterest enemies hanging on his words; he had lashed them into fury, and still kept his grip over them; he had worked them up, gaining more and more power over them, till at length, as he shouted forth the last words of a grand peroration, the bitterness and truth of his accusations proved keener than his restraining influence.
It was a superb peroration! If the hapless flowers lying there had been a cartel of outrage to the concrete majesty of the French Army, the Army's champion could not have spoken with more impassioned force and scorn. Cecil laughed slightly; but he answered, with a certain annoyance: "There is no 'insolence' here; no question of it.
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