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You may try if you like, but I won't have you using any tools. It's a fine old piece of wood, and I don't want it spoiled." They readily promised not to do any harm to the box, and as soon as dinner was over they hurried off to the old part of the house, Alan feeling rather flattered by Marjory's suggestion that he might be able to find some way of opening the chest.
All this, as will be readily perceived, afforded fine opportunities for the display of rich carvings and intarsia; and there was much rivalry between the guilds in the splendor and adornment of their places of meeting.
Clement Austin readily promised to bring about an apparently accidental meeting between Margaret and Mr. Dunbar, and this is how it was that Joseph Wilmot's daughter had waited in the office in St. Gundolph Lane. She had arrived only five minutes after Mr.
The blow he had given Alla ad Deen was intended to make him obey the more readily, and give him the lamp as soon as he should ask for it. But his too great precipitation, and his fear lest somebody should come that way during their dispute, and discover what he wished to keep secret, produced an effect quite contrary to what he had proposed to himself.
As soon as victory permitted me to restore your ancient laws to your capital and to a part of your provinces, I have done so readily, without, however, prolonging a war which would have shed the blood of my subjects. "I love your nation. For sixteen years I have seen your soldiers by my side on the fields of Italy as on those of Spain.
Pip, one of those two prisoners sat behind you tonight. I saw him over your shoulder." "Steady!" I thought. I asked him then, "Which of the two do you suppose you saw?" "The one who had been mauled," he answered readily, "and I'll swear I saw him! The more I think of him, the more certain I am of him."
There was usually little difficulty in doing so, for the sheep knew the way and did not readily wander out of it; while, even if they had deviated a little from the direct route, no great harm would at this stage of their passage have resulted. It was quite different when they came down to the lawns near the house.
Haney should endeavor to do what she can for herself this is a duty incumbent on every one; but you must not let her suffer, as she has thrown herself upon me; your advances on this account will be allowed always, at settlement; and I agree readily to furnish her with provisions, and for the good character you give of her daughter make the latter a present in my name of a handsome but not costly gown, and other things which she may stand most in need of.
And those propensities which are already actively in the field under some related form of expression, which are aided by the pointed suggestions afforded by a current accredited scheme of life, and for the exercise of which the material means and opportunities are readily available these will especially have much to say in shaping the form and direction in which the new accession to the individual's aggregate force will assert itself.
It is doubtful, however, whether the best-trained man can get any clear notion of a thousand miles that is, can present it to himself in imagination as he may readily do with shorter intervals. The most difficult part of the general education which the student has to give himself is begun when he undertakes to picture long intervals of time.
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