"It would not have mattered especially had the poor children been left in their original condition of friendless poverty," she said.

'Nothing mattered much just then, and the engagement was the business side.

It mattered nothing that the Emperor was ashamed of his weakness; that he retracted; that he vowed vengeance; that he marched at the head of new armies.

What mattered a tree or two less amid a world of trees?

He cursed them as devils, savages, no kilistanos but that mattered nothing.

Nothing else mattered now; no other laurel she might possibly win held out any attraction; she must carry off the great honor.

He had done his life's work amid all extreme fiercenesses of heat and cold, in burning droughts, in simoons and in icy wildernesses, and a ray or two more of the pale sun or a flake or two more of the gentle snow of England mattered to him but little.

But, on the other hand, he said it over and over again, and the look upon his face and the tone of his voice were the things which mattered.

Of course it would not have mattered much had it been suspected, since it was only Phebe Lane after all who entertained it,little Phebe Lane, whose ancestors, though good and well-born enough, did not hail from Morocco, and who lived, not in the West End proper, but only on the borders of it, in a street where one could not get so much as a side peep at the lake.

As if anything mattered but Colin.

Because I was so mad about you that nothing mattered.

She was so real that in that moment nothing else mattered to them.

" "As if that mattered.

Nothing would have mattered.

Nothing mattered.

" "As if that mattered.

If it could only make him believe that beyond the inevitable fact nothing mattered.

And, after all, that was the one thing that really mattered, though of course Billy would always despise her.

It was Boggley, and only Boggley, that mattered to me.

"If only he had been a man above the average," she said, as she tearfully parted from the great man, "perhaps it would not have mattered so much.

For aught it mattered, he might have opened it upside-down.

" Of course neither the wishes of the Chinese nor the question of Imperial responsibility or non-responsibility mattered greatly in 1900.

I didn't know that it mattered to you so much where I was.

Emmeline sat before her mirror, and permitted Fanny to arrange her beautiful hair as she would; to her it mattered not.

It mattered not; the captain would make the fourth passenger, and in his shadow I felt there were strength and security.