I soon became keenly interested in politics (I suppose it is in the bloodall the men in my family in America were politicians) and in the discussion of the various questions which were rapidly changing France into something quite different.

The few visits and tête-à-têtes had always begun by conventional commonplace phrases and embarrassment, and had ended in a delightful sympathy, in animated conversation, in a flowing confidence and gaiety, and in long discussions on books, and art, and principally people.

There were many discussions in the monde (society not official) "as to whether one should wear mourning for the Saint Pere."

He had just returned from a discussion with a butcher, (from the effects of which the latter now sleeps in the valley,) when a party of his fellow-townsmen entered the store in which he was loafing, and ordered a coil of half-inch rope from New York by the morning's train.

There was a long discussion as to the punishment he ought to endure.

" The chapter concludes with a discussion between an old man and his wife, in which the policy of encouraging manufactures, is argued.

You watched by the marshy pool, and caught the 'peeper' in the act, took him 'in flagrante, delicto,' as the lawyers say, and thus ended the theoretical discussion about the 'peepers.'

He was evidently a kind-hearted man, who did not seem so much desirous of provoking discussion by the questions which he put, as of obtaining information at any rate.

" More wriggles, and some discussion at his feet!

Marcia was not willing to keep it to themselves; she wanted to have it talked about in League and Sunday school and prayer meeting, and then, when everybody had been given the chance to add to it, and to improve on itbut not to weaken itthat it be put out for general discussion among all the churches.

Convicted of having received a large sum of money in connection with the mining concession, he was brought before the Peers, and being led from question to question and from discussion to discussion, soon made a confession of his crime.

A hurried succession of orders stopped further discussion for the time.

This is a point open to a good deal of discussion from both sides.

He and W. used to plunge into very long, learned discussions over antiquities and medals.

Mr. Ward bottled up his temper until the family met at dinner, when he requested Madame Esmond to stay, and laid the subject of discussion before her.

This resulted in particular from a certain discussion during which Lepailleur had wished to make Gregoire swear, that, after his death, he would never dispose of the moorland enclosure, hitherto kept uncultivated with peasant stubbornness, to any of his brothers or sisters of the farm.

But we have seen that a general diminution of warfare is rendered possible only by the union of small political groups into larger groups that are kept together by community of interests, and that can adjust their mutual relations by legal discussion without coming to blows.

"Mr. President," he cried, passionately, "I know this is not the time or place for a discussion like this, but ask that senatorial courtesy permit me to ask"then he concluded strongly before he could be stopped"what is the evidence in support of this preposterous charge?"

In forming stipulations, the commissaries are often ignorant, and often negligent; they are, sometimes, weary with debate, and contract a tedious discussion into general terms, or refer it to a former treaty, which was never understood.

The great growth of free discussion through the cheap press has done no little to work out this salutary change.

I retain that, because I am sensible I am very deficient in the politics myself; and I have torn updon't be angry; waste paper has risen forty per cent, and I can't afford to buy itall Bonaparte's Letters, Arthur Young's Treatise on Corn, and one or two more light-armed infantry, which I thought better suited the flippancy of London discussion than the dignity of Keswick thinking.

He felt that too much was at stake, and he lifted the discussion out of the atmosphere of professional procedure into that of their common manhood.

In this year I was much engaged on schemes for compasses, and in June I sent my Paper on Discussions of Ships' Magnetism to the Royal Society.

"The Bulgarian atrocities" became a theme of discussion throughout Europe; and in England, while Disraeli and his government made light of them, Gladstone was aroused to all his old-time vigor by his humanitarian indignation.

Young as I was, I had heard much political discussion amongst my elders in England, and the state of affairs in France was perfectly familiar to me.