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She accepted a cup of tea brought by Isobel, expressed her sorrow that if by word or look she had given cause for offence, and entered eagerly into the pros and cons of the debate which sprang up as to the best course to pursue on the following day. Everyone agreed that nothing could be done that night.
Captain Heseltine's observation was brief, but comprehensive. "Rats!" said he. Alicia nodded to him with a smile. Eleanor Scaife began to argue the pros and cons of the Accident-Liability Clause, as to which, she considered, there might fairly be a difference of opinion. Lady Eynesford cut across the inchoate disquisition by remarking, "I have never disliked Mr.
He had recognised this necessity, and considered the pros and cons precisely as if the matter were a political question. He who, without the quiver of an eyelash, had sent many a band of soldiers to certain death in order to execute a well-conceived plan of battle, was compelled to inflict keen suffering upon the woman he loved and himself, that greater interests might not be injured.
I forgot you don't know of course you don't," broke in Johnnie with a sudden dismay in her voice. "I ought to have told you that mother" she hesitated and looked at the old man "mother isn't up at the cabin any more. I left her in Cottonville this morning." "Cottonville!" echoed Pros in surprise. Then he added, "O' course, she came down to take care o' me when I was hurt. That's like Laurelly.
It was the old question about Rogers, the brewer, and whether Lord Adleston and Sir William could not get him; or else it had gone on to the great railway contractor, Dobbs, and the question how many votes his influence was really worth; and, somehow, I never got very far into the pros and cons of these discussions, which soon subsided into the fairy tale I have mentioned, and that sweet perpendicular sleep all the sweeter, like everything else, for being contraband and irregular.
His own problematic re-marriage, often discussed in all its pros and cons with Magdalen, was the only possible alliance that ever occupied his thoughts. In this respect he was an ideal parent in his daughters' eyes, an inhumanly selfish one according to his two sisters, Lady Blore and Miss Bellairs, at this moment stepping out towards Priesthope from the north lodge.
Only I like you all to know me as I am changing in feeling from time to time. There is quite enough to account for it all. A few days later he returned to Auckland, and thence wrote to me a letter on the pros and cons of a move from New Zealand.
The woman, after meditating two or three minutes, declared: "It isn't three o'clock yet. You could begin this evening and go all round the country to Tourville. You can just as well say that he's dead, seem' as he's as good as that now." The man stood perplexed for a while, weighing the pros and cons of the idea. At last he declared: "Well, I'll go!"
After many pros and cons, and at least a dozen bottles of beer for the excitement on the part of the corporal, and the exertion of the widow, had made them both dry it was resolved that the Frau Vandersloosh should demand an audience at the Hague the next morning, and should communicate the treasonable practices of Mr Vanslyperken, calling upon the corporal as a witness to the receipt of the money from the Jesuit.
The place they'll tackle will be right yere, if they tackle anything at all " I will not weary you with the pros and cons. At the time I thought, and I still think, the whole arrangement most ill advised; but against me was the united opinion of nearly the whole camp, including the most level-headed members of my own party.
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