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If the history of that time, and especially that of the year in the middle of which our narrative commences, were not indissolubly connected with the two names just mentioned, the few explanatory pages which we are about to add might appear quite supererogatory; but we will, from the very first, apprise the reader our old friend, to whom we are wont on the first page to promise amusement, and with whom we always try to keep our word as well as is in our power that this explanation is as indispensable to the right understanding of our story as to that of the great event itself on which it is based.
Connoisseur that he was in the joys of living, he confessed to a new sensation when, for the first time, he found himself plodding over the seared, round-shouldered hills, spongy with the supererogatory wetness of a three days' downpour. The rain had ceased temporarily, but the sky wore a look of ineffable gloom, and the feathery mist trailed along the earth like an uneasy ghost.
"Then, let us assume that the sacrifices to the Devil are not preceded by preliminary murders. Perhaps in some cases they aren't. The worshippers probably content themselves with bleeding a foetus which had been aborted as soon as it became matured to the point necessary. Bloodletting is supererogatory anyway, and serves merely to whet the appetite.
'Very well, she said, with resignation. 'But it was quite a work of supererogation on my part. 'That you proposed it in a supererogatory spirit does not lessen your obligation, having once put yourself under that obligation. St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Hebrews, says, "An oath for confirmation is an end of all strife."
Dodge and Monday, Mademoiselle Viefville passed an hour in the state-room of Miss Effingham, during which time she made several supererogatory complaints of the manner in which the editor of the Active Inquirer had viewed things in Paris, besides asking a good many questions concerning his occupation and character.
She had made her nest admirably and lay upon her sofa in a becoming dressing-gown and cap, resting from her labours. She hated what she called the mess of the ship and the idea, if she should go above, of meeting stewards with plates of supererogatory food. She judged this to be a limited privilege, for on the deck before we left the wharf she had taken a view of our fellow-passengers.
In a word and no man but one who, like The Agent, has travelled Europe over, can appreciate the gift there is no city on earth's surface so well supplied with fish as London! "With respect to our meats, all praise is supererogatory.
"I am dreadfully sorry to be late," she said. "We went for the shortest little drive, and all at once it was two o'clock and we were three miles away." "You must have done something to the speed-limit, madam," said Peter in his stiffest manner, "for you are in ample time." "How do you do, Mr. Hare?" "Excellently well, thank you, Mary. It is supererogatory to ask you." "Pinky," said Mrs.
Our countesses, moreover, were adored by their husbands; these gentlemen were enslaved by the charm possessed by every woman who loves; and, with even supererogatory simplicity, afforded us that just sufficient spice of danger which increases pleasure. Ah! how quickly the wind swept away our talk and our happy laughter!
Will you kindly let me have the remaining volumes, and when you have a spare quarter of an hour I want a little assistance from you. Of course I shall have to read over the whole series; but meanwhile will content myself with your references. Have you the Arabian Nights published in Turkish by Mr. Clermont Ganneau? You will want it for the supererogatory.
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