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How far he sees life on one simple plane may be illustrated by his short story When the Old Century Was New, an attempt to reconstruct in fiction the New York of 1801 which shows him, in spite of some deliberate erudition, to be amazingly unable to feel at home in another age than his own.
Miss Fairweather was a sensible young woman, although amazingly beautiful, and she took a most extraordinary view of the situation. "It isn't right, it isn't fair, it isn't playing the game, Dick," she protested, resolutely releasing herself from his embrace after listening for a long time, with throbbing heart, to his song of triumph. "Poor, dear Mr. Bingle!
In the granary we found an amazingly large store of excellent barley, but only two jars of wheat, and that not very good, and neither jar entirely full. On the floor were loose piles of turnips, beets and of dried pods of coarse beans. There were jars of chick-peas, cow-peas, lentils, beans and millet, more millet than wheat.
But when a catastrophe of this kind occurred on board a British merchantman or war vessel the men had both the courage, skill, training, and, above all, the matchless instinct to clear away the wreck and carry out the refitting in amazingly short time. That was because we were then, and are now under new conditions, an essentially seafaring race.
Do you think Dickens never saw a taproom or a thief's den? or that Thackeray is unacquainted with the "Cave of Harmony"? No, all the piquancy of life comes from the slight soupçon of wickedness wherewithal we season it." "I like amazingly to have you wander off in this way; you are always entertaining, whether your ethics are sound or not." "Don't trouble yourself about ethics.
"Child," said Mr. Prohack. "What on earth do you mean 'wasting time'? Haven't you insisted, and hasn't your precious doctor insisted, that I must read the papers for an hour in bed after I've had my breakfast in bed? Talk about 'wasting time' indeed!" "Yes, of course darling," Eve concurred, amazingly angelic. "I don't mean you've been wasting time; only I don't want you to waste any more time."
The men liked him, for he had been known to "turn to" and work at a bush fire "as hearty as if he weren't a fat little image av a haythen," said Murty O'Toole; Norah was always delighted when old Ram Das came up the track, his unwieldy body on two amazingly lean legs. Even Mary would not have been scared at his appearance.
But I have no recollection of doing anything to deserve the honour. I fear I answered Gorman rather ill-temperedly. "There's nothing whatever to tell," I said. "I just crawled about in a trench, generally muddy. Everybody else did exactly the same." Gorman is still the same man he always was, amazingly tactful and sympathetic.
"I confess it is to be regretted that his mother is a lady, and that he looks you must have noticed it? so amazingly like the portraits of the young Schiller. But I only meant that Bessy forms all her opinions emotionally; and that she must have been very strongly affected by the scene Mr. Tredegar described to us." "Ah," Mr.
Folks admired the plan amazingly, but as to the "leddies," they were dainty on the matter, and contented themselves with looking from under their arms. As Johnny Bower piqued himself upon showing everything laid down in the poem, there was one passage that perplexed him sadly.
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