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I looked helplessly after the girl, who had fled, incontinent, to the women at work in the field. "Well, sir," I said, "I shall be pleased to hear it. If it has any pertinence to the harvesting of a second crop it would be welcome." My father sighed. He never entered very heartily into diversion nowadays small wonder! so the Provost laughed on with his counsel.

It would never have occurred to me to ask the questions that he put, but as he went on, I saw their pertinence and value. With Ruth's permission he called several of the servants and asked them a few things. Nothing of moment transpired, to my mind, but Stone was interested in a full account of where each servant was and what he was doing on the night of the murder.

"Of coorse it is," replied Mike, promptly, seeing the pertinence of the question. "You Irish thief, do you mean to say that the spear is pisened?" demanded the robber, eagerly. "Of coorse I do; ye die in less than an hour, unless the pisen is worked out of the wound." The bushrangers waited to hear no more.

Advise me what is fitting to be done. When the Vizier heard this, the tears streamed from his eyes and he replied, 'God forbid, O king of the age, that I should speak on that which is of the pertinence of the Compassionate One! Wilt thou have me cast into the fire by the wrath of the All-powerful King?

But to understand what morality really is, to recognize its claims, is to understand also its application, its critical pertinence to art and religion, to all the great and permanent undertakings of men.

Investigation will be necessary, since the needful facts are not all indubitably known; theory will be necessary too, so that those facts may be conceived in their pertinence to public interests, and the latter may thereby be clarified; and romance will not be wholly excluded, because the various activities of the mind about the same matter cannot be divided altogether, and a dramatic treatment is often useful in summarising a situation, when all the elements of it cannot be summoned up in detail before the mind.

"'I go by water, said I, 'and here's another will be for making me pay for going by oil." Anyhow, it may be suspected that this retort of Tristram's is too often passed over as a mere random absurdity designed for his interlocutor's mystification, and that its extremely felicitous pertinence to the question in dispute is thus overlooked.

To revive past moral experience is indeed wellnigh impossible unless the living will can still covet or dread the same issues; historical romance cannot be truthful or interesting when profound changes have taken place in human nature. The reported acts and sentiments of early peoples lose their tragic dignity in our eyes when they lose their pertinence to our own aims.

They had met thus as opposed curiosities, and that simple remark of Milly's if simple it was became the most important thing that had ever happened to her; it deprived the love-interest, for the time, of actuality and even of pertinence; it moved her first, in short, in a high degree, to gratitude, and then to no small compassion.

The arrangement has an obvious pertinence to an understanding of Argall's unhappy experience as governor, for he was later charged with neglect of the public interest through too great concern for his own personal interests.