From the beginning of operations, the young officer seems to have been summoned to the councils of war, and General Scott particularly mentions that held at Vera Cruzso serious an affair, that "a death-bed discussion could hardly have been more solemn.

And when you connect fortune-telling and our duties in the present, you make it too serious an affair.

" How much more baffling and intangible this new forest, and how deeply serious a business now for those who were still thoughtlessly and selfishly juggling with human affairs.

An easy-going, idle nature, never serious, but also never down-hearted, a weak, irresponsible character; but he managed to find food, such as it was, and kept himself and his alive from day to day; managed to keep them somehow.

Nothing serious the matter, only put down and kept down; not agreeable, but necessary.

There wouldthey, no doubt, thoughtbe an undeniable piquancy, a distinct flavour of semi-scandalous incongruity in listening to the Word of Life from the lips of this loose-tongued droll; and the more staid and serious the sermon, the more effective the contrast.

It is ridiculous, however serious the subject.

Indeed all extrinsic songs in dialogue, however serious the theme, were considered 'Jigs'.