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Finding myself, weakened as well as relieved, by the operation, he invited me to rest myself; and while I was recovering my strength, he discoursed with the Brahmin and myself on several of his favourite topics.

Miss Lavinia's favorite topic was the sure visitation of the sins of the father upon his children.

She changed the subject, and they talked for some time on indifferent topicssuch topics as have an interest for girls; and who are we that we may despise them?

The subject of the tragedy was naturally uppermost in everybody's mind, and the principal topic of conversation.

During this regimen of perfect quiet Lady Maulevrier was not allowed to see the newspapers; and Mary was warned that in reading to her grandmother she was to avoid all exciting topics.

The method she adopted was not, usually, to start religious topics, but "to extract from common subjects some useful and awful truth, and to counteract the mischief of a popular sentiment by one drawn from religion."

When Abe took the first mortgage on the house in order to invest in an indefinitely located Mexican gold-mine, the melodeon dropped one of its keys, but the roses nodded on with the same old sunny hope; when Abe had to take the second mortgage and Tenafly Gold became a forbidden topic of conversation, the minute-hand fell off the parlor clock, but the flowers on the back of the old chair blossomed on none the less serenely.

" "Again touching upon the dangerous topic!" rejoined the Signor.

But we turn from these considerationsthough the times on which we have fallen, and those towards which we are borne with headlong haste, call for their discussion as with the voices of departing lifeand proceed to topics relevant to the argument before us.

"This casual introduction of literary topics furnished us with ample matter for conversation while we were not engaged in contemplating the sublime ruins over which, when the sentinel returned, we climbed.

Almost the sole topic was football.

Sir John, however, intervened with smooth speeches and for the rest of supper the conversation was kept to less painful topics.

"They lead to manybut do not let us talk of them" he broke off with a light gesture dismissing as it were an unpleasant topic.

THE CONVALESCENT A pretty severe fit of indisposition which, under the name of a nervous fever, has made a prisoner of me for some weeks past, and is but slowly leaving me, has reduced me to an incapacity of reflecting upon any topic foreign to itself.

He was equal to the occasion, and delivered a discourse on his familiar topics,his own miraculous conversion and his mission to the Gentiles to preach the crucified and risen Christ,things new to Festus, who thought that Paul was visionary, and had lost his balance from excess of learning.

Bull decided that this was a conversational topic on which he must remain silent, and yet he yearned to speak of the little withered catlike fellow with the wise brain who had done so much for him.

Meanwhile, the Spectator, whom we regard as our Shelter from that flood of false wit and impertinence which was breaking in upon us, is in every one's hands; and a constant topic for our morning conversation at tea-tables and coffee-houses.

The next day it was the universal topic of conversation, and the day after that, when Edinburgh unfolded the late editions of its morning papers, it learned with horror and dismay that Lady Donaldson had been found murdered in her room, and that the celebrated diamonds had been stolen.

And so for a while we spoke of neutral topics.

The remainder of our conversation was devoted to minor topics.

" Now we will furnish some topics suitable for the investigation into the principles of rewards.

But for some reason they seemed always to find obstacles in the way of bringing forward this most vital topic.

] Chapter VI For a few days the most engrossing topic in A.P. was what shall I wear, and what will you wear.

Inasmuch as most of the experimental work of this chapter depends upon the use of the microscope and also necessarily assumes a knowledge of facts which are discussed later, it would be well to postpone experiments in histology until they can be more satisfactorily handled in connection with kindred topics as they are met with in the succeeding chapters.

I raised up the gravest topics of life; private misery, public calamity.

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