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And out of mere reaction from her weeks of anguish, she believed him, she hoped again. Then he turned to speculate on the voyage to America he must now make, on his first interviews with Greyridge and Uncle Ben. 'Shall I make a good impression? How shall I be received? I am certain you gave your uncle the worst accounts of me.
He had a prejudice against peculiarity in dress, and knew that it was a terrible thing to be out of the fashion and to run the gauntlet of bold eyes on Ryde pier. At the seaside the world is idle, and has nothing to do but stare and speculate.
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university, where a few undisciplinables like T. D. may be infinitely more precious than a faculty-full of orderly routinists. As to what Davidson might have become under the conventionalizing influences of an official position, it would be idle to speculate.
Slowly, slowly the victims emerge from the lower depths of gloom, feebly smile, faintly joke, pick fearfully but wistfully at once-rejected dishes; talk about getting up, but don't do it; read a little, look at their sallow countenances in hand-glasses, and speculate upon the good effects of travel upon the constitution.
Yes; if I were alone now a bachelor, as in former days I should go to America, or the Russian Steppes there one can get rich; or I should speculate on the Exchange to-day up, to-morrow down. Oh, there one could earn money; but so tied as one is!"
"It has ever been a sore puzzle to me, and I have my suspicions, which I have held for years, but which even the thought of so frightens me that I shudder to speculate upon the consequences of voicing them aloud. Norman of Torn, if you are not the son of the old man you call father, may God forfend that England ever guesses your true parentage.
"Not on Sunday," she laughed; then went on, admiringly, "I hear you're very dashing in your speculations." "Then you've heard wrong, because I don't speculate," he returned. "I'm not a gambler except on certainties. I guess I disappointed a friend of yours the other day because I wouldn't back him on a thousand-to-one shot." "Who was that?" she asked, with an expression entirely veiled. "Corliss.
Limits Of Human Power. It is on the one hand, rash and unphilosophical to attempt to set limits to the ultimate power of man over inorganic nature, and it is unprofitable, on the other, to speculate on what may be accomplished by the discovery of now unknown and unimagined natural forces, or even by the invention of new arts and new processes.
"If she had not been an incurable invalid, George, I too might have become interested in Miss Dunross perhaps in the character of my daughter-in-law?" "It is useless, mother, to speculate on what might have happened. The sad reality is enough." My mother paused a little before she put her next question to me.
Did he steal forth and, without notice or hint of his intention, take train to some seaport, thence to embark for some distant land, leaving his affairs to take care of themselves and his friends to speculate vainly as to his whereabouts? Is he now hiding abroad, or even at home, indifferent alike to the safety of his own considerable property and the peace of mind of his friends?
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