He had found Lydgate, for whom he had the sincerest respect, under circumstances which claimed his thorough and frankly declared sympathy; and the reason why, in spite of that claim, it would have been better for Will to have avoided all further intimacy, or even contact, with Lydgate, was precisely of the kind to make such a course appear impossible.
And it is precisely this sort of sequence which causes the greatest shock when it is sundered: for to see how an effect may be produced is often to see possible missings and checks; but to see nothing except the desirable cause, and close upon it the desirable effect, rids us of doubt and makes our minds strongly intuitive.
But then came the question whether he should have acted in precisely the same way if he had not taken the money?
" "Precisely; that is what she expressly desires.
He insisted too, and Mary, without fuss, began again in her neat fashion, with precisely the same words as before.
He had regarded Rosamond's cleverness as precisely of the receptive kind which became a woman.
"Precisely; you cannot conceive," said Mrs.
Lord Triton is precisely the man: full of plans for making the people happy in a soft-headed sort of way.
The trash talked on such occasions was the more vexatious to Lydgate, because it gave precisely the sort of prestige which an incompetent and unscrupulous man would desire, and was sure to be imputed to him by the simmering dislike of the other medical men as an encouragement on his own part of ignorant puffing.
I could add no information to this beyond anatomical or medical details, which would leave expectation at precisely the same point.
CASAUBON,—I have given all due consideration to your letter of yesterday, but I am unable to take precisely your view of our mutual position.
Casaubon's case is precisely of the kind in which the issue is most difficult to pronounce upon.
That was precisely what Will wanted.
" "Precisely.
She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.
I do not know how to express precisely the impression he made upon me.
If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.
But a wise historian is precisely what the Rev.
They were strolling along the high-road easily, the Mole by the horse's head, talking to him, since the horse had complained that he was being frightfully left out of it, and nobody considered him in the least; the Toad and the Water Rat walking behind the cart talking together—at least Toad was talking, and Rat was saying at intervals, "Yes, precisely; and what did you say to him?
He was, indeed, precisely as courteous to Mrs.
