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To use a very homely simile, he blew away that froth which there is on the surface of mere acquaintanceships, especially with the opposite sex; and which, while it lasts, scarce allows you to distinguish between small beer and double X. Apparently Dr. Riccabocca was satisfied with his scrutiny, at all events under that froth there was no taste of bitter.
Jones was a direct person, used to travel and the forming of chance acquaintanceships. He did not hang back. "'Scuse me," said he. "I saw you in the lounge and I'm sure I've met you somewhere or another, but I can't place you." The stranger, taking his change from the assistant bar tender, laughed. "Yes," said he, "you have seen me before, often, I should think.
He had never for any fraction of an instant wavered in his love, and use and wont had helped to set a seal of sanctity upon it With the passage of the months and years, with the growth of many intimate acquaintanceships, and not a few closer and dearer ties about him, home had grown to be as sacred to him as if the union on which it was founded had been blessed by all the priests of all the churches.
My French is bad, and his English is worse, but he understands that I am in the wholesale grocery trade. I have come to Palermo to buy currants!" "Most extraordinary! How very clever of you!" Mr. Winter drew himself up with an air of professional pride. "That is nothing, sir," he said. "We often make queer acquaintanceships in the way of business. But Gros Jean is a smart chap.
"Add to all this your nervous nature, your epilepsy, and your sudden arrival in a strange town the day of meetings and of exciting scenes, the day of unexpected acquaintanceships, the day of sudden actions, the day of meeting with the three lovely Epanchin girls, and among them Aglaya add your fatigue, your excitement; add Nastasia' s evening party, and the tone of that party, and what were you to expect of yourself at such a moment as that?"
"Are you in the habit of indulging in protracted silences?" she rallied him gently. "Between friends of old standing they're permissible, I believe, but " "A day's journey by tonga matures acquaintanceships wonderfully," he observed abstrusely. "Indeed?" She laughed. "At least, I hope so."
There were hats and coats and musical instruments, pile upon pile of well-thumbed music, and numerous dilapidated playthings that bore the marks of too ardent treasuring, all scattered about in reckless confusion. No wonder Constance had fought shy of acquaintanceships which were sure to ripen into schoolgirl visits. Poor Constance!
There were some of her intimates here in the neighborhood, but she found greater security in the society of an older set of whom she had seen little in town and in the pleasure of picking up the loose ends of these acquaintanceships she managed to forget, at least temporarily, her sword of Damocles. Olga Tcherny was one of Mrs.
He knew that Achillas, the head of the army, bitterly opposed the idea of letting Pompeius land; he knew, what was almost as much to the point, that Pratinas did not care to renew certain acquaintanceships contracted at Rome. Therefore the young Hellene calmed Cornelia's fears, and waited as best he might.
Wilson, who was not much given to forming chance acquaintanceships, was at first inclined to be suspicious, and yet it was he who made the next advance, prompted, however, by his eagerness for information. "Do you know anything about sailing lines to South America?" he asked. The older man removed his pipe. Wilson thought he looked a bit startled a bit suspicious at the question.
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