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One of his favourite supposings was "Supposing a very poor man was coming along the road, with his dinner in a handkerchief; and supposing he sat down under the hedge to eat it; and supposing it was cold beef; and he had no mustard; and supposing there was a seed on your nasturtium plants, and he knew it wouldn't poison him; and supposing he ate it with his beef, and it tasted nice and hot, like a pickle, wouldn't he wonder how it got there?"
But Christopher's delight was to go with me to the waste places and hedges, where I had planted things as Traveller's Joy, and to get me to show them to him where they had begun to make a Spring start, and to help him to make up rambling stories, which he called "Supposings," of what the flowers would be like, and what this or that traveller would say when he saw them.
Often our vanity makes us think that this has happened to some of us in the instance of one or more women. But honest and quiet reflection may well cause us to doubt the truth of such supposings. The woman who as we believed adored us solely has probably in the course of her career adored others, or at any rate other things.
For five minutes they skated in silence, then Lady Alicia began softly, “Supposing you—you went away——” “What is the use of talking of it?” he exclaimed, melodramatically. “Let me forget my short-lived hopes!” “You have a friend,” she said, slowly. “A friend who tantalises me by ‘supposings’!” “But supposing you did, Mr Beveridge, would you go back to your—did you say you had a parish?”
A child in arms should be able to see that this idiotic notion of relaxing the military pressure on us by smashing this or that particular Power is like trying to alter the pressure of the ocean by dipping up a bucket of water from the North Sea and pouring it into the Bay of Biscay. I purposely omit more easterly supposings as to what victorious Russia might do.
Greenwood. For Mr. Neither Ben, nor the actual Simon Pure, the author, the auto- Shakespeare, could fail to know the truth about Trodus and Cressida. But Mr. On which set of supposings and averments does he stand to win?
When the supposings came knocking at his door, he cried 'Come in! and in they came! 'Suppose the figs are barren! 'Suppose the vines wither! 'Suppose the olive fail! 'Suppose the corn perish! 'Suppose the sheep starve! 'Suppose the cattle die! The prophet invites them all to come in. They jostle each other as they throng his little room.
"I am yours " I said, looking up at him. I could not say any more, but I believe Mr. Thorold understood it all, just what I meant him to understand; how that bond could never be unloosed, what though the seal of it might be withheld. He was satisfied. "You are not brave, Daisy," he said, holding me again very close; "here are these cheeks fairly grown white under my supposings.
'Now don't you have anything to do with supposings, she exclaimed. 'I know them all. "Suppose I should lose my money!" "Suppose I should lose my health!" And all the rest. When those supposings come knocking at your heart, you just slam the door, and bolt it, and don't let any of them in! It was excellent advice; yet the prophet acted on a diametrically opposite principle.
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