supposable

As to corruption, the case is not supposable. He must either have been very unfortunate in his intercourse with the world, or possess a heart very susceptible of such impressions, who can think it probable that the President and two thirds of the Senate will ever be capable of such unworthy conduct.

It is easily supposable that the thief was concealed in the house; that he knew of this box, and of its owner's habit of counting its contents and arranging his accounts at night--if he had that habit, which I do not assert, of course--that he tried to take the box while its owner slept, but made a noise and was seized, and had to use the knife to save himself from capture; and that he fled without his booty because he heard help coming.

It is not supposable that he intended a satire upon Babcock's own asceticism, for this would have been a truly cynical stroke.

Had it been altered, the only supposable motive for murder on the part of the suspected would have been the ordinary one of revenge; and even this would have been counteracted by the hope of reinstation into the good graces of the uncle.

that during slow and successive stages of material extinction some nearness--of the personal quantity departing to the personal quantity remaining, and in the name of personal association and personal affection, and to the abasement of utter personal eclipse--might be supposable; and that this is what we miss.