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And I'm staying at a very grand hotel, which might be anywhere. A man I crossed with on the steamer took me there. I think I'd move to one of the quieter ones, the French ones, if I were a little surer of my pronunciation and the subjunctive mood." "You don't mean to say you've been studying French!" He coloured a little, and laughed. "You think it ridiculous at my time of life?
"Give me some more examples of the subjunctive, Rebecca, and that will do for this afternoon," she said. "If I had not loved mackerel I should not have been thirsty;" said Rebecca with an April smile, as she closed her grammar. "If thou hadst loved me truly thou wouldst not have stood me up in the corner. If Samuel had not loved wickedness he would not have followed me to the water pail."
Not unless we wish to emulate Southey's learned friend, who wrote whole volumes of hypothetical history in the subjunctive mood, it is hardly necessary for present purposes to discuss the internal changes which, had the missions been left to themselves, might in the long run have brought about their decay. For as a matter of fact the missions were not left to themselves.
"It would mean running away, wouldn't it?" said Bobby, still subjunctive. "I suppose so. Mamma and papa are so unreasonable." "Di," said Bobby, "I don't believe you could ever be happy with me." "The idea! I can too. You're going to be a great man you know you are." Bobby was silent. Of course he knew it but he passed it over.
Finally, one word for myself. I have not hesitated to speak strongly where I have felt strongly; and I am but too conscious that the indicative and imperative moods have too often taken the place of the more becoming subjunctive and conditional.
"If anything be anything," said Frederick Brent, "the Pennsylvania mountains are what Oscar Wilde called them." "Oh, you miserable agnostic!" exclaimed his friend Professor Helfenstein. "Can you not, in the face of this so beautiful landscape, get rid of your eternal subjunctive mood? If, indeed!"
PYTHAGORAE: chosen no doubt because tradition made Milo a Pythagorean; see n. on 27. Plaut. For the ellipsis see n. on 26. DENIQUE: 'in short'. UTARE: the second person of the present subjunctive hortative is very rare, excepting when, as here, the command is general. Had the command been addressed to a particular person, Cicero might have written ne requisieris. Cf.
Plautus, Pseud. 3, 2, 80 seems to make the same mistake. SI QUIS DEUS: the present subjunctive is noticeable; strictly, an impossible condition should require the past tense, but in vivid passages an impossible condition is momentarily treated as possible. So Cic. generally says si reviviscat aliquis, not revivisceret. DECURSO SPATIO: 'when I have run my race'. See n. on 14.
"Oh, it is the saddest tense," sighed Rebecca with a little break in her voice; "nothing but IFS, IFS, IFS! And it makes you feel that if they only HAD known, things might have been better!" Miss Dearborn had not thought of it before, but on reflection she believed the subjunctive mood was a "sad" one and "if" rather a sorry "part of speech."
Pens and ink are cheap, and you can take my classes in the summer, and give me quietness to write my book on 'The Abuses of Ut with the Subjunctive." "But I must find lodgings " interrupted Ralph. "You must find nothing just bide here. It is the house of your nearest kin, and the fittest place for you. Your meat's neither here nor there, and my lasses "
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