Indeed this is self-evident: for if a man knows that some particular thing is relative, assuming that we call that a relative in the case of which relation to
something is a necessary condition of existence, he knows that also to which it is related.
Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'I took her nothing, she gave me something.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'Gave me a bit of bacon.'
'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans, What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, but would have something given.' Gretel presents Hans with a calf.
"You have got something against my Natalie," he burst out; "I know it by your whispering, I see it in your looks!
One of them said, "Ring the bell!" Another said, "Offer him something, he will faint." The third shuddered, and repeated, over and over again, "Why did we do it?
For a month his mother had been very ill and that had
something to do with his sadness, but not much.
And they did talk about
something else; but her left hand was still enclosed in his, and he knew, without asking again, that all was well.
Everyone had
something to say in censure or ridicule of the luckless Madame Maltishtcheva, and the conversation crackled merrily, like a burning faggot-stack.
She caught at her breath for a moment, half closed her eyes as thought to shut out
something disagreeable.
"I don't quite see," she said, as if Katharine had challenged her explicitly, "how, things being as they are, any one can help trying, at least, to do
something."
Indeed, there was
something more than his usual expansiveness of bodily action in his appearance at that moment.
"Wait a bit, I have
something in view for you this evening." (She glanced at Helene and smiled at her.) "My dear Helene, be charitable to my poor aunt who adores you.
The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but
something more primitive than either.
She said
something about letting you know she was going."
She would really like to do
something of which her well-wishers disapproved.