He spoke in a
perfectly natural tone in reply to Rouletabille's question.
But the important point to notice, is that these cells are always made at that degree of nearness to each other, that they would have intersected or broken into each other, if the spheres had been completed; but this is never permitted, the bees building
perfectly flat walls of wax between the spheres which thus tend to intersect.
P-, in charge of the deck, hooked on to the windward mizzen rigging in a state of perfect serenity; myself, the third mate, also hooked on somewhere to windward of the slanting poop, in a state of the utmost preparedness to jump at the very first hint of some sort of order, but otherwise in a
perfectly acquiescent state of mind.
I may safely say that Falk is absolutely true to my experience of certain straightforward characters combining a
perfectly natural ruthlessness with a certain amount of moral delicacy.
I have thought it all over I assure you, and I can
perfectly account for every thing that at first seemed strange to me as well as to you."
A number of these sweatings and plungings having, as he supposed, rendered his person
perfectly "inodorous," he resumed his trapping with renovated hope.
We had been friends, quite good friends; but never could I get beyond the same comradeship which I might have established with one of my fellow-reporters upon the Gazette,--perfectly frank,
perfectly kindly, and
perfectly unsexual.
I'm
perfectly willing to own up that I'm glad I consented to keep the child and that I'm getting fond of her, but don't you rub it in, Matthew Cuthbert."
"I understand that
perfectly, sir," the man answered.
This would not have mattered a jot--the horrible old woman might have shouted as much as she pleased--had it not been that, in the first place, there was the disgrace of it, and, in the second place, she had somehow learned of our connection, and kept proclaiming it to the household until I felt
perfectly deafened, and had to stop my ears.
But though he had, as we have said, formed his morals on the Platonic model, yet he
perfectly agreed with the opinion of Aristotle, in considering that great man rather in the quality of a philosopher or a speculatist, than as a legislator.
"Antonio, it carries me clear out of myself just to hear you tell it; it must have been
perfectly splendid.
