It was entirely owing to this deficiency in the
scheme of things that Arthur had ever brought any one into trouble besides himself.
He was a recognised part of the
scheme of things on the "We're Here"; had his place at the table and among the bunks; and could hold his own in the long talks on stormy days, when the others were always ready to listen to what they called his "fairy-tales" of his life ashore.
From an acute consciousness of herself as an individual, Mary passed to a conception of the
scheme of things in which, as a human being, she must have her share.
The banker was evidently a ruler, but there was an opposition party, and even among his supporters there were some who allowed it to be seen that their support was a compromise, and who frankly stated their impression that the general
scheme of things, and especially the casualties of trade, required you to hold a candle to the devil.
She had been taught that every created thing fulfilled some useful purpose, and she tried conscientiously to discover just what was the rightful place of the kaldane in the universal
scheme of things. She knew that it must have its place but what that place was it was beyond her to conceive.
It has no place in your
scheme of things. - Oh, I mean the real interpretative biology, from the ground up, from the laboratory and the test-tube and the vitalized inorganic right on up to the widest aesthetic and sociological generalizations."
That a creature made--in a genealogical sense--out of a man's rib, and in this particular case maintained in the highest respectability without any trouble of her own, should be normally in a state of contradiction to the blandest propositions and even to the most accommodating concessions, was a mystery in the
scheme of things to which he had often in vain sought a clew in the early chapters of Genesis.
He was charmed to see me, said he had been shedding delicious tears of joy and sympathy at intervals for six weeks on my account, had never been so happy as in hearing of my progress, began to understand the mixture of good and evil in the world now, felt that he appreciated health the more when somebody else was ill, didn't know but what it might be in the
scheme of things that A should squint to make B happier in looking straight or that C should carry a wooden leg to make D better satisfied with his flesh and blood in a silk stocking.
Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the
Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade.
Even the individuals became less watchful and alert, so that one might have thought Numa and Sabor and Sheeta entirely deleted from the
scheme of things. The shes and the balus roamed unguarded through the sullen jungle, while the greedy males foraged far afield, and thus it was that Teeka and Gazan, her balu, hunted upon the extreme southern edge of the tribe with no great male near them.
It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the
scheme of things.
"I desired," replied the Dog, "merely to harmonise myself with the Divine
Scheme of Things. I'm a child of Nature."
The man looked curiously about him on all sides, as one who among familiar surroundings is unable to determine his exact place and part in the
scheme of things. It is so, perhaps, that we shall act when, risen from the dead, we await the call to judgment.
Marilla knew Anne too well to fear this; but she felt that something in the universal
scheme of things had gone sadly awry.
They occupied an intermediate place in the
scheme of things, and they were to be watched in case they did not keep their place.