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Admirable self-assurance! I was about to answer, when Barbemouche put in; "So you, whom it was in my power to kill a hundred times over that night, are the very Tournoire whom I chased from one end of France to the other eight years ago?" And he looked me over with a frank curiosity. "Yes," I said, with a smile, "after you had destroyed the home of my fathers. And at last you have found me."
And to say the truth, it was well worth looking at, so neatly, and with such admirable skill, had it been planned and finished. The stones were put together so securely, that there was no danger of their being loosened by the tide, however swiftly it might sweep along.
"Upon my honour, sir," said the traveller, with some surprise struggling to his features, "your coolness and self-possession are quite admirable. I see you know the world." "Your lordship flatters me!" returned Lovett, bowing. "How do you decide?" "Why, is it possible to write drafts without ink, pen, or paper?"
Let us look backward in history once more for a short while, and then steadily forward till my words are done: I began by saying that part of the common and necessary advice given to Art students was to study antiquity; and no doubt many of you, like me, have done so; have wandered, for instance, through the galleries of the admirable museum of South Kensington, and, like me, have been filled with wonder and gratitude at the beauty which has been born from the brain of man.
I should like it to be recognized at schools that the one quality that was admirable was keenness, and that it was admirable in whatever department it was displayed; but nowadays keenness about games is considered admirable and heroic, while keenness about work or books is considered slightly grovelling and priggish. The same spirit has affected what is called sport.
Of Madame de Stael it was said that she wrote her books out of the talk of the distinguished men who frequented her salon. Her own conversation was directed to evoking from the brains of others what she afterward, as an artist, knew how to use better than they. Her talk small blame to her! was plundering and acquisitive. But J.R.G.'s talk gave perpetually, admirable listener though he was.
It drove back the three active army corps of the Germans and the reserve corps that it found facing it. On September 7 it pressed forward to the Courtacon-Cerneux-Monceaux-les-Provins-Courgivaux-Esternay line. During the days that followed it reached and crossed the Marne, capturing in fierce combats some howitzers and machine guns. "General Foch showed admirable sang-froid and energy.
And I saw in her the blushing sum of all perfection; the pink of maiden modesty; the nymph that my fond heart had ever woo'd in dreams, etc. etc. The Prince and his young friends hastened home to his apartment, highly excited by the intelligence, as no doubt by the ROYAL NARRATOR'S admirable manner of recounting it, and they ran up to his room where he had worked so hard at his books.
Spare one moment from your hospitable cares, and receive the congratulations of Miss Bloxam and myself upon the perfection of your arrangements. Everything is admirable; and if ever people deserved the favour of a gorgeous day, you and your companions have done so." "To have won the approbation of such an expert as Mr.
"My friend," said the architect, "do you not think that madame herself might be a better consoler than your Phedre?" "Madame is a wonderful woman. She has brains, she has heart, she has tact she is admirable." "And yet she has one gift too many." "And that is?" "Age." "Pooh! What matter her years when she can carry them like thirty? What an eye! What an arm!
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