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After considerable argument, pro and con, it was decided that it would be safe and certainly wise to let the girl breathe the fresh air once in a while. That morning Sam took her into the cabin through the passage. The half hour in the cold, fresh air revived her, strengthened her perceptibly. Her spirits took an upward bound.
The question assumed the angriest aspect; and, lastly, the Prussian-French war underwrote the negotiations with a finis pro temp.
The question is stated to have been this: whether he had been a fraction of the twentieth year an outlaw, his friends hoping that in such case a part might count <i>pro toto</i>. But the truth of the matter was that he had neither been an outlaw for a fraction of the twentieth year, nor even for anything like nineteen years.
Negotiations were opened the next day between the pettifogger on Bridget's side and the law agent of the noble lord, and the arguments, pro and con., lay thus: In the first place, the opening declaration was Lord Scatterbrain never would live with the aforesaid Bridget. Answered that nevertheless, as she was his lawful wife, a provision suitable to her rank must be made.
If she were bigger and more muscular, she'd have kissed and squeezed the breath of life out of me, which would have been awkward for her, as she'd then have been thrown back upon her own resources. Oh, ma petite poupee de Mere, only think of it! I go to-morrow into space. I disappear. I cease to exist pro tem. There will be no me, no Audrie, but, instead, two Ellalines.
It would be easy to imagine the arguments pro and contra which presented themselves to his mind at this conjuncture; but as they would be destitute of a historical foundation, it is perhaps best to state simply the decision at which he is known to have arrived. This was an acceptance of the Lydian offer.
After dinner I walked to Arundell House, the way very dusty, the day of meeting of the Society being changed from Wednesday to Thursday, which I knew not before, because the Wednesday is a Council-day, and several of the Council are of the Society, and would come but for their attending the King at Council; where I find much company, indeed very much company, in expectation of the Duchesse of Newcastle, who had desired to be invited to the Society; and was, after much debate, pro and con., it seems many being against it; and we do believe the town will be full of ballads of it.
One or two of the nuns were passing in and out of the house; they wore gray robes, with a bright red cape. I thought their situation most pro- vincial. I came away, and wandered a little over the base of the hill, outside the walls. Small white stones cropped through the grass, over which low olive-trees were scattered. The afternoon had a yellow bright- ness.
CHILLINGLY GORDON. "I don't see the necessity for that, Sir Peter. We may take the existence of the Baby for granted." Mr. MIVERS. "It is an advantage to the reputation of Sir Peter's work to preserve the incognito. /Omne ignotum pro magnifico/." THE REV. JOHN STALWORTH CHILLINGLY. "I don't approve the cynical levity of such remarks.
Perhaps we might be able to find out her whereabouts meanwhile, but there'd be delay before we could expect answers to inquiries, if she's playing small towns in order to knock her new play into shape. You don't want to go back to your grandmother's. We're starting off in my car to-morrow. I've undertaken the responsibility of you, so I'm your guardian pro tem.
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