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At dinner I said that I should soon be leaving for Genoa, and for my sorrow the marquis gave me a letter of introduction to the notorious Signora Isola-Bella, while the countess gave me a letter to her kinsman the Bishop of Tortona. My arrival at Milan was well-timed; Therese was on the point of going to Palermo, and I just succeeded in seeing her before she left.
Forrester and Bessie had not made any one the wiser of the well-timed appearance of the abbot's ghost which had played such an effective part in their previous night's drama, "I say," he said looking at Mr. Bessie realized that her secret had become common property, and blushed becomingly. Mr. Forrester said, "What have you suspected, John?"
I humbly thank him, and shall sleep the lighter for the fardel's loss. Now, mark me, Montagu: our kinsman, Lord Fitzhugh's son, and young Henry Nevile, aided by old Sir John Copiers, meditate a fierce and well-timed assault upon the Woodvilles. Do thou keep neuter, neither help nor frustrate it. Howsoever it end, it will answer our views, and shake our enemies."
At all events, the parson's words were so far well-timed, that they produced in Leonard very much of that state of mind which Mr.
That dexterous negotiator, whom his contemporaries compared to Demosthenes so far as a rhetorician might be compared to a statesman and the minister of a sovereign to a popular leader, had orders to display by every means the respect which the victor of Heraclea really felt for his vanquished opponents, to make known the wish of the king to come to Rome in person, to influence men's minds in the king's favour by panegyrics which sound so well in the mouth of an enemy, by earnest flatteries, and, as opportunity offered, also by well-timed gifts in short to try upon the Romans all the arts of cabinet policy, as they had been tested at the courts of Alexandria and Antioch.
The follies and the vices had decamped had scummed off, so to speak leaving the more rectified spirits behind them, to recover at leisure, as best they might, from all that ferment of dissipation. So, then, there was now neither ridicule, nor interest, to stand in the way of a young and wealthy heir's well-timed schemes of generosity.
A well-timed movement of the latter averted the blow, and the whizzing steel passed harmlessly on. A gutteral "Ugh!" marked the disappointment of the Indian, now reduced to his scalping-knife; but before he could determine whether to advance or to retreat, his opponent had darted upon him, and, with a single blow from his cutlass, cleft his skull nearly asunder.
Mind, sir, I take excellent care that you don't traffic in your sister! The Major delivered this culminating remark with a well-timed deflection of his forefinger, and slightly turned aside when he had done. You might have seen Evan's figure rocking, as he stood with his eyes steadily levelled on his sister's husband.
He felt himself impelled towards the man whom he heard called Lord David his defender, and perhaps something nearer. Lord David drew back. "Oh!" said he. "It is you, is it? This is well-timed. I have a word for you as well. Just now you spoke of a woman who, after having loved Lord Linnæus Clancharlie, loved Charles II." "It is true." "Sir, you insulted my mother."
'You'll have to pay up some time or other though, said Pat. 'And I don't know where you'll get it from. I can't go on giving you all my pocket-money. There are other things I want to get. 'Wait till you're asked, said Justin sharply. 'I can manage my own affairs. Pat thought it better to say no more, though in his heart he did not think Justin's talk of independence was very well-timed.
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