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"Now is it not strange," quoth the Corporal, soliloquizing, "that this dirty little bit of paper its intrinsic value not one cent, its representative value fifty dollars, is it not strange, I say, that this flimsy trifle, that an instant's application to the sickly flame of a penny candle would destroy, can procure food for the starving, clothing for the naked, shelter for the homeless?
"Well, I have two," said Mr. Manning "one in Oxford University and one in Kensington." He caught up and went on with a sort of clumsiness: "Let me present you with them and be your voter." There followed an instant's pause, and then Ann Veronica had decided to misunderstand. "I want a vote for myself," she said. "I don't see why I should take it second-hand. Though it's very kind of you.
If, indeed, it has thus affected him, if he can still remember the scene at the farm-house beyond the suburbs with emotions such as these, he will not now be unwilling to turn again for a moment from the gathering clouds to the spot of blue, he will not deny us an instant's digression from Ulpius and the city of famine to Antonina and the lonely plains.
Perhaps he felt it so, for he went on after an instant's pause, as if he had waited for something in vain, and his tone was changed. Annesley thought it, by contrast, almost businesslike. "You mustn't be afraid," he said, "that I mean to stay at the Savoy myself. Even if I'd been stopping there, I should move if I were going to put you in the hotel. But I have my own lair in London.
Jack was fond of wild schemes, you know. I left it in his hands." She had pronounced the dead man's name so composedly that Miss Saidie, after an instant's hesitation, brought herself to an allusion to the girl's loss. "How you must miss him, dear," she ventured timidly; "even if he wasn't everything he should have been to you, he was still your husband."
"And having secured it, it remains Mont," added his companion abruptly, but without the slightest change of tone, "don't stop to ask me why, but step quickly through the door and into the house, and keep out of sight for a few minutes." "I understand," said Sterry, obeying without an instant's hesitation.
"Like the psalmist she went forth weeping and has returned bearing her sheaf with her in the form of a fairly substantial fiancé." Dinah ventured to cast a lightning-glance at Scott to see how he took the information and was conscious of an instant's shock. He looked so grey, so ill, like a man who had received a deadly wound.
"But, gentlemen of the jury, this old and well-worn pocket-book, the companion of my client's wanderings, and hard fortunes; the letter from the father to the son, received as authentic, without an instant's hesitation, by the defendants themselves; the marriage notice of the deceased father and the step-mother, now his legal opponent, are not the only proofs to be drawn from this portion of our testimony."
I cannot even say whether it ran on all-fours, or only with its forearms held very low. After an instant's pause I followed it into the second heap of ruins. I could not find it at first; but, after a time in the profound obscurity, I came upon one of those round well-like openings of which I have told you, half closed by a fallen pillar. A sudden thought came to me.
"My son?" The cry was a pitiful one. Then, as ever, the boy was the dearest to his mother's heart. "Very dear Lady, no. Your daughter." It was painful to see how the sudden gleam died out of the weary eyes. "Ah, well!" she said, after an instant's pause. "Well! I asked but for one, and when man doth that, he commonly gets the lesser of the twain. Well! I shall be glad to see my Jeanne.
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