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Updated: June 15, 2025
"I wish," he said, "you could stay for a later train and have lunch and meet her. She's not the ordinary thing. She's different." Benham plumbed depths of wisdom. "Billy," he said, "no woman IS the ordinary thing. They are all different...." For a time this affair of Prothero's seemed to be a matter as disconnected from the Research Magnificent as one could imagine any matter to be.
Beloved peoples of Europe, dying for the last two years on your dying land. Have you at length plumbed the depths of woe? Alas, the worst is yet to come. After so much anguish, I dread the fatal day when, no longer buoyed by false hopes, realising the fruitlessness of their sacrifices, the masses, worn out with misery, will blindly wreak their vengeance where they may.
At first she looked down at her hands in her lap, at her fingers idly interweaving; but midway of her drawn-out soliloquy for she seemed to be talking to herself she turned him her eyes, and he plumbed their depths in vain. "It's very nice of you to be interested in me. You are much more interested than I am and it's a compliment, a great compliment.
Ponds were dragged, wells were plumbed, telegrams were despatched down the lines of railways and to the nearest seaport town-twelve hundred miles away; but Imray was not at the end of the drag-ropes nor the telegraph wires. He was gone, and his place knew him no more.
Each was an exceedingly pleasant man of the world; and, though Leopold Travers could not have plumbed certain deeps in Chillingly Gordon's nature, and in every man's nature there are deeps which his ablest observer cannot fathom, yet he was not wrong when he said to himself, "Gordon is a gentleman."
The pilot again came aft, and through his interpreter, King, informed us that the Fiord had never been plumbed, although the endeavour had been made very frequently by scientific men, and Danish naval officers.
Like the remainder of her companions in misfortune, she was drenched to the skin. That physical drawback, however, was only a minor evil in this almost unpleasantly hot retreat; but Hozier, able now to focus matters in fairly accurate proportion, felt that Iris had not yet plumbed the depths of suffering. Their trials were far from ended when their feet rested on the solid rock.
I consulted the most experienced seamen upon the depth of the channel, which they had often plumbed; who told me that in the middle, at high water, it was seventy glumgluffs deep, which is about six feet of European measure; and the rest of it fifty glumgluffs at most.
So far from being affected by the intense enthusiasm and feverish excitement that prevailed, he was just as cool and collected as though the occasion was some little tea party affair or a ward meeting, instead of the greatest indoor political demonstration ever held in Birmingham. As already stated Mr. Chamberlain quickly perceived and plumbed to the bottom Mr.
I looked at his float, which had given a slight bob, and then another; but that was all. "Off again. Didn't want worms," he said; "wants paste." There was another long pause. "Not deep enough," said Mercer again. "Ought to have plumbed the depth."
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