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Whereas it is exactly the reverse; for these people have acquired their reputation by their parts, their learning, their good-breeding, and other real accomplishments: and are only blemished and lowered, in the opinions of all reasonable people, and of their own, in time, by these genteel and fashionable vices.
He had, besides, a turn of expression which was very far from being low and unelevated; and possessed two other accomplishments, in which no one could equal him, an uncommon clearness and accuracy in stating the points he was to speak to; and a neat and easy manner of collecting the substance of what had been said by his antagonist, and by himself.
I saw the dear old gentleman, a generation later, in New York; he had the same clear, untroubled, tranquil face as of old; his hair, though gray, was as thick and graceful as ever; his manner was as sweet and attractive; but though, in addition to his other accomplishments, he had become an advanced spiritualist, he had not yet coined into bullion his golden imagination.
In her paroxysms of dismay, he did not forget to breathe the soft inspirations of his passion, to which she listened with more pleasure, as they diverted the gloomy ideas of her fear; and by this time his extraordinary accomplishments had made a conquest of her heart.
Lady Madeleine paused one moment, and then resumed with a firm voice: "Upwards of six years have now passed since Baron von Konigstein was appointed Minister to London from the Court of . Although apparently young for such an important mission, he had already distinguished himself as a diplomatist; and with all the advantages of brilliant talents, various accomplishments, rank, reputation, person, and a fascinating address, I need not tell you that he immediately became of consideration, even in the highest circles.
Here, besides various elegant accomplishments the art of wearing a train, of composing a bouquet, of presenting a cup of tea she acquired a certain turn of the imagination which might have passed for a sign of precocious worldliness.
Lovejoy, and she could see that lady from the opposite window, looking toward the house with a very defiant expression. Mrs. Parlin opened the note with some surprise, for she had been engaged with visitors in the parlor, and did not know what had been going on up stairs. Whatever Mrs. Lovejoy's other accomplishments might be, she could not write very elegantly.
But as to my title to acquiesce in a rejection from her without an appeal to your interest, I will tell you plainly, without meaning to undervalue Miss Mac-Ivor's admitted beauty and accomplishments, that I would not take the hand of an angel, with an empire for her dowry, if her consent were extorted by the importunity of friends and guardians, and did not flow from her own free inclination.
He was, in this as in all other things, an iron taskmaster, sparing not himself nor others. If you were going to do it at all, he would see that it was done as well as you were able. After the slipshod training and the incomplete accomplishments of a girls' school, there was something at first annoying, at last exciting and bracing, in this high standard of accomplishment and perseverance.
'If it be flattery to admire your charms and accomplishments, rejoined Nicholas, laying his hand upon the scrapbook, 'you have better specimens of it here. 'Oh you cruel creature, to read such things as those! I'm almost ashamed to look you in the face afterwards, positively I am, said Miss Snevellicci, seizing the book and putting it away in a closet. 'How careless of Led!
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