On the completion of the Columbiad the
public interest centered in the projectile itself, the vehicle which was destined to carry the three hardy adventurers into space.
Fortunately for him, at this period so difficult for him from the failure of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American alliance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritualism, were definitely replaced in
public interest by the Slavonic question, which had hitherto rather languidly interested society, and Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been one of the first to raise this subject, threw himself into it heart and soul.
She had read the letter to the family, and Rowena had danced away to see to the cleaning and airing of the room by the slave woman, Nancy, and the boys had rushed abroad in the town to spread the great news, for it was a matter of
public interest, and the public would wonder and not be pleased if not informed.
A fourth ill effect of the exclusion would be the banishing men from stations in which, in certain emergencies of the state, their presence might be of the greatest moment to the
public interest or safety.
As
public interest was in question, and transatlantic communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted.
Gradually it leaked out that Scarlett Trent was the buyer, and
public interest leaped up at once.
Yet in reality those personal interests of the moment so much transcend the general interests that they always prevent the
public interest from being felt or even noticed.
At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter
public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.
Treason, then -- deep menaces, concealed under the semblance of
public interest -- such were Colbert's maneuvers.
What qualifications were necessary in those who are to be created new lords: whether the humour of the prince, a sum of money to a court lady, or a design of strengthening a party opposite to the
public interest, ever happened to be the motive in those advancements?
The
public interest, the necessity of the case, imposed upon them the task of overleaping their constitutional limits.
Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and
public interest turned to other idols.