There was Bridges, earning a salary at his theatre, to be thrown out into the streets or made a star of, according to his whim; Heselton, a family man, drawing his salary, and a good one, too, also from the theatre; men whose faces were familiar to himsome of them, he knew, on newspapers in which he owned a controlling interest.

Sylvanus Power may destroy a million-dollar theatre for a whim, but so far as you and I are concerned" She sighed with content.

But would it be wisdom in the Free States to put themselves at the mercy of such a panic whenever the whim took South Carolina to be discontented?

Gail Hamilton is a humorist in her wilfulness, and flashes suggestive thought and wisdom even in her most daring caprices and eccentricities of individual whim.

Rhádamandáspes: Well, well, we turn back, though I would fain have humoured the Queen's whim.

" This sudden whim of conferring on him a degree in divinity, and her change of mannerimplying that she had been laughing at him beforeirritated him.

And darling will begin a weak argument in favor of her little unreasonable, sentimental whim represented by "Europe," although she sees that your mind is made up.

In 1790, which was seven years after the appearance of his first grammar, he published an octavo volume of more than four hundred pages, consisting of Essays, moral, historical, political, and literary, which might have done him credit, had he not spoiled his book by a grammatical whim about the reformation of orthography.

You and I must differ more widely in our notions of fair play than I hope and believe we do, if you refuse to one whose purpose is neither unjust nor ungenerous, as much license in your columns as you have accorded to Mr. Landor, when it was his whim, without the smallest provocation, to throw obloquy on the venerated author of the Excursion.

I am in a holiday humor, and it is as the whim may take me.

But you saw, and you saw clearly, that it was the sickly whim of a wanton, and you never dreamed of yielding, for you love this Rosamund Eastney, and you know me to be vile.

With this thought in mind I began not only to read and write, but to test my impulse in order that I might discover if it were a part of my very being, an abnormal impulse, or a mere whim.

My every whim was at least considered with a politeness which enabled me to accept a denial with a highly sane equanimity.

II Laughing It Out He had a whim and laughed it out Upon the exit of a chance; He floundered in a sea of doubt If life was realor just romance.

All night a bright and solitary star (Perchance the one that ever guided him, Yet gave him up at last to Fate's wild whim)

He was certainly too much governed by whim and accident.

Not long after this adventure, a whim seized the duke of going into a convent, in order to prepare for Easter; and while he was there, he talked with so much force and energy upon all points of religion, that the pious fathers beheld him with admiration.

" "A girlish whim," he broke in impatiently.

Surely this is but a mere whim!" "Have you found me to be a nervous girl, full of whims?" "No, certainly not, but" "And this is no whim, no mood.

Surely this is but a mere whim!" "Have you found me to be a nervous girl, full of whims?" "No, certainly not, but" "And this is no whim, no mood.

It's only a whim, a mood, Billie; once married I'll teach you the lesson over again.

In His "Letters to Stella" (January 16th and 21st, 1712-13), Swift makes the following references to it: "I came home at seven, and began a little whim which just came into my head, and will make a three-penny pamphlet.

" "It seems that your senses often take the whim of walking I know not where, dear Ammalát.

" CHAPTER XV A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CINDERELLA It was to all seeming a strange whim that caused Cardinal Mazarin, one day in the year 1653, to summon his nieces, daughters of his sister, Hieronyme Mancini, from their obscurity in Italy to bask in the sunshine of his splendours in Paris.

At first I had lent myself to the old dreamer's whim with a keen perception of the humor of the thing; but by and by I found that I was talking and thinking of Miss Mehetabel's son as though he were a veritable personage.