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And we are willing to believe that she has still some modesty of soul left hidden under all this effrontery of fashion, and that, if she could be made to see herself as she appears to the eyes of men, she would mend her ways before too late. It is terribly significant of the present state of things when men are free to write as they do of the women of their own nation.
Am I to die because I had not firmness to resist the prayer of my captain and of your son, Colonel de Haldimar?" The president looked towards the governor, but a significant motion of the head was the only reply; he proceeded, "Prisoner Halloway, what plead you to this charge? Guilty, or not guilty?"
While she thus spoke, her glance wandered searchingly over Balby, who did not seem to remark it, or to comprehend her significant words. "Madame," said he, "allow me to remark that we have not dined. My brother, whose will is always mine, prefers taking his dinner in his own apartment, where he has more quiet comfort and can better enjoy your rare viands. He never dines at a table d'hote.
Indeed, you are very pale. Are you ill?" "No. Only I am very tired. Traveling so far by rail is harder than I imagined. I did have rather a long wait after arriving at the station, but I can't say that it was lonely." Florence Kingsley searched Madeline's face with keen eyes, and then took a long, significant look at the silent Stewart.
Meanwhile, Captain Blessington had turned and examined the miniature in fifty different ways, but without succeeding in discovering any thing that could confirm him in his original impression. Vexed and disappointed, he at length flung it from him on the table, and sinking into a seat at the side of the unfortunate Charles, pressed the hand of the youth in significant silence.
Lingering, she stood at Billy's tent front, her ear inclined to his protruding pate. He was saying something that took time, and she showed no inclination to hurry him. Miss Prime looked back, then she and Schuyler exchanged significant smiles and glances. There was rather a lingering handclasp before Amy started. Even then she looked back at the boy and smiled.
When he wished to express his affection in the vivacious and significant manner ordinarily employed among the peasantry, that is to say, by vigorous embracing and resounding kisses, he met with unexpected resistance. "Keep quiet!" was the order, "and let us talk rationally!"
Yellow: considered by Sister Emmerich as the colour of idleness, of a horror of suffering, and often given to Judas in mediæval times, is significant of treason and envy.
Again, as so often, a picture arises before our eyes most significant and full of interest.
The success attendant upon the growth of a substitute for cinchona is significant. India must have quinine in large quantities as a preventive of malaria. Experiments prove that while the genuine article does not thrive here, a kindred species, possessing nearly the same properties, although to a less degree, will grow well.
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