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It is not saying more than the truth will allow me, or admitting more than my own poignant feelings may to such expression give justification, when I confirm with my lips the belief that I have for much time dispassionately held that Alfred Stevens, with Turner, were the first artists that England produced from the middle of the eighteenth to that of the nineteenth centuries; and that, compared with the great oracles of the past, he reasonably approaches Michael Angelo, who he unquestionably touches and sometimes surpasses.
'Yes, Colney said; 'we unfold the standard of extremes in this country, to get a single step taken: that's how we move: we threaten death to get footway. Now, mark: Society's errors will be admitted. A gentleman spoke. He began by admitting Society's errors.
A doubt stole into her mind whether she might not have mistaken the depository and mode of concealment of those historic treasures; and after once admitting the doubt, she was afraid to hazard the shock of uplifting the stone and finding nothing.
"I should be delighted to think so," he answered, "but admitting the fact, see how chance favours her, and makes it a most difficult thing for you to prove your innocence. "The young lady disappeared three months ago.
The under side of their toes is expanded into cushions, beneath which folds of skin form a series of flexible plates. By means of this apparatus they can run or crawl across a smooth ceiling with their backs downwards the soft soles, by quick, muscular action, exhausting and admitting air alternately.
The body-guard of Augustus had been so composed; the praetorians were generally selected from the bravest frontier troops, most of them Germans. 'Thus, he continues, 'in many ways was the old antagonism broken down, Romans admitting barbarians to rank and office; barbarians catching something of the manners and culture of their neighbours.
"How disagreeable it is not to have a clerk!" he said. He went to open the door with an eagerness that he had not shown to Saniel, which proved that he had no fear of admitting people when he was not alone. It was a clerk from the bank. "You will permit me," Caffie said, on returning to his office. "It will take but an instant." The clerk took a paper from his portfolio and handed it to Caffie.
Instead of going to Bloomsbury Place at once, she stopped at Griffith's lodgings on her way, and rather scandalized his landlady by requesting to be shown into his parlor. Only the grave simplicity of the small, slight figure in its gray cloak, and the steadfast seriousness in the pretty face reconciled the worthy matron to the idea of admitting her without investigation.
All this time she was admitting to herself that she had been much startled by this news about Rosa Elsworthy, much startled. To be sure, it was not like Mr Wentworth, and very likely it would impair his influence; and it was natural that any friend taking an interest in him and the district, should be taken a little aback by such news.
They are the last new craze; and admitting that you have not seen them being out of the question, as a lover of veracity I counsel you to do so at once." We lunch and dine at a good many places that we would rather not; entertain, and are entertained by, a good many people for whom we feel a by no means dormant aversion.
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