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"I suppose it must be black," she murmured doubtfully. "It is much more economical than anything " She broke off to bow to a stout, red-faced man who, after a rude stare, had greeted her with a patronizing nod. Laverick frowned. "Who is that fellow?" he asked. "Mr. Heepman, our stage-manager," Zoe answered, a little timidly. "Is there any particular reason why he should behave like a boor?"
It seems that he had been working with a road-construction company about three miles out on the road to Guests. I found that out from a perfect stranger." She paused again and the line of her mouth took on a grimmer straightness. "One of the men, who brought him in a great rough boor he was had the audacity to suggest that Joseph was around there seeing what he could pick up.
"If I were that man," he remarked smiling, "I will answer for it that you could." "You! But then you are only a boy, you have nothing to conceal, and you are partial to me, aren't you? No, the man whom I want to influence is a very different sort of person. It is Scarlett Trent." He frowned heavily. "A boor," he said. "What have you to do with him? The less the better I should say."
To the astonishment and indignation of the boors, law was introduced where it had always been set at defiance; they were told that the life of a Hottentot was as important in the eye of God, and in the eye of the law, as that of a Dutch boor, and that the government would hold it as such.
"All here!" exclaimed the German, indicating the pictures and rarities. "Not von of dem haf efer gifn bain to mein boor Bons.... Here ees everydings dot he lofed, after me." Schmucke had taken his seat again, and looked as vacant as before; he dried his eyes mechanically.
For if the pretty daughters are, naturally, to marry people of very different expectations at any rate, he will be eligible for the plain ones: and if the brilliant and fascinating Myra is to hook an Earl, poor little Beatrice, who has one shoulder higher than the other, must hang on to some boor through life, and why should not Mr. Pendennis be her support?
The imagination of the vulgar is not sufficiently cultivated to see, in the emblems which art typifies, those passions or sentiments which have moved generations with enthusiasm. A Gothic cathedral is infinitely more interesting to a man of sentiment or learning than to an unlettered boor.
"What?" "It is pleasant to be appreciated and to carry away with one memories, I will not say tender, but appreciative." "I can't act like a boor. I must be decent to the girl. Besides, she isn't altogether a fool." "No, but very crude, very primitive, very passionate, and therefore very defenseless." "All right, I shall simply shake hands and go."
He entered completely attired as a Flemish boor of the better class, in the holyday suit of Peter, who expressed his interest in the young Scot by the readiness with which he parted with it for his use, and swore, at the same time, that, were he to be curried and tugged worse than ever was bullock's hide, they should make nothing out of him, to the betraying of the young folks.
It forms the central figure of a small fountain beside the Frauenkirche, and represents a country boor leaning against a small pillar, with a goose under each arm, waiting a customer in the market; from the mouth of each goose a stream of water descends.
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