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"It won't surprise you now," said Meldon, "to hear that we look upon your life as a most valuable one too valuable to be risked unnecessarily." "I should appreciate this entirely unsolicited testimonial," said the judge, "even more than I do already, if I knew exactly who was giving it to me." "I don't suppose that you'd be much the wiser if I tell you that my name is Meldon J. J. Meldon.
There is probably a latent enmity between the necessarily under- clad and the unnecessarily overdressed, but a little kindness and good fellowship on the part of the latter will often change the sentiment to admiring devotion; if the lady in peach-coloured velvet and leopard skin had worn a pleasant expression in addition to her other elaborate furnishings, Emmeline at least might have respected and even loved her.
But not just now; there are more pressing matters claiming our attention at this moment these bonds of ours, for instance. I don't know how yours are, but mine have been drawn quite unnecessarily tight; my fingers already feel as though they are about to burst.
This meal, probably more owing to the lamp-light than to any inherent superiority, seemed an improvement on the last one, had not the diners made it unnecessarily uncomfortable by treating it as though it were a hurried snack at the counter of a railway refreshment room.
For the continuation of your cordial attitude toward me I am personally grateful. I would not unnecessarily sever the bond which holds me to the upright Christians and the learning of your country, but at the present moment this bond has no value for me. P.S. It is in your power now to wage a battle which would be of honor to you.
I have sent home the learned and witty men whom you sent to meet me, in order to detain me, and gain time for the restoration of the old nest in which I had a fancy to roost with Minerva's birds which have not, I hope, all been driven out of it in order that Sabina and her following may not lack entertainment, nor the famous gentlemen themselves be unnecessarily disturbed in their labors.
I don't want to alarm you unnecessarily, but after to-day I want Miss Winslow never to be out of sight of friends friends, I said; not one, but several." "Why what's the matter?" demanded Warrington in alarm. "I can't explain it all over the telephone," replied Garrick, sketching out hastily something of what we had overheard. "I'll try to see you before long perhaps to-day. Don't forget.
"At death's door for one man, and now going to marry another!" "Why not?" said Raby, hard pushed; "she is a woman." "And why did you not tell me till now?" asked Mrs. Little, loftily ignoring her brother's pitiable attempt at a sneer. Raby's reply to this was happier. "Why, what the better are you for knowing it now? We had orders not to worry you unnecessarily. Had we not, Jael?"
The father and mother are tired, and, moreover, the father has no other time to read his unnecessarily voluminous newspaper, and the mother has no other time to do her unnecessarily elaborate sewing, while the children generally have lessons to study.
Like many self-taught men of real merit, he overrated the value of a regular education; and this I often told him, though I had profited by his error; for he always treated me with respect, and often unnecessarily gave way to me, from an overestimate of my knowledge. For the intellectual capacities of all the rest of the crew, captain and all, he had a sovereign contempt.
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