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She took up her letter again, and read it carefully, weighing each word. Then: "Good old Jane!" she said; "that is rather neatly put: the 'safely abstract' becoming the 'perilously personal. She has acquired the knack of terse and forceful phraseology from her long friendship with the doctor.
"I cannot claim to have an order from him, General." "Then make way, or take the consequences!" He began to argue the case, for he was like the rest of the tribe, always ready to fight with words, not acts; but in the midst of his gabble Joan interrupted with the terse order: "Charge!" We came with a rush, and brief work we made of that small job. It was good to see the Bailly's surprise.
Incidentally, though he did not mention it, this young captain was one of three who had been recommended by the British admiral to his government for the Distinguished Service Order. The captain's report, which I read, is terse, and needs to be visualized.
They eyed each other with the measuring glance. Keith said in his dry, terse way: "I asked Miss Gower to come with me because I wish her to hear what I have to say to you." "You mean my wife," said the general with a gracious smile. "I mean Miss Gower," returned Keith. "As you know, she is not your wife."
I regret I cannot give here his exact answer, for all who read this would wish to know the very words he used on this momentous occasion. No doubt they were, like all he said, terse, pithy, and in such scriptural phrase as was with him so habitual.
"Why, yes, I'm well, child, if it wasn't for bein' so tumbled about in my mind." "What has tumbled you, Penelope?" asked Evadne with a merry laugh. "The Scribes and Pharisees," was the terse rejoinder. "I've just cum from a Committee meeting of the Missionary Society an' I'm free to confess my feelin's is roused tremendous.
We opened out a little to port and starboard as we went, in order that we might show as small a mark as possible for our antagonists to fire at, and, having already passed the heavy pinnace, I was fast creeping up into the leading position, when Ryan, who saw what I was after, sheered alongside and in sharp, terse language ordered me to change places with him.
Willard will bear a favorable comparison with any other American historian, let him be ever so famous. Mrs. Moodie and her gifted sisters, Mrs. Trail and Miss Strickland, have acquired a world-wide reputation by their pens. Which of our living authors possesses a more terse or vigorous style than Gail Hamilton?
But he is himself; and, in his plain and terse fashion, he forces upon our attention one truth which, on the principle that an inch of fact is worth a yard of theory, is, if well in the mind, more useful than acres of metaphysics which leave us very much where we were. His broad affirmation is, that temptation does not, and cannot, put sin into a man's mind or heart.
'Then the whole wound up with another short prayer, also repeated standing, a commendation of the individual, the Brotherhood, the nation, the world, to God. The phrases of it are terse and grand. One can see at once that it has laid hold of the popular sense, the popular memory. The Lord's Prayer followed. Then, after a silent pause of "recollection," Elsmere dismissed them.
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