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I realized how high a compliment she was paying me, and I repaid it with a joke. "Take care. Those who don't live there would call it the piano snobile." "Ah!" cried the delighted lady, "they'd never have the wit!" "Did you ever hear," I continued, "the Bostonian's remark 'The mission of America is to vulgarize the world'?" "I never expected to agree so totally with a Bostonian!" declared Mrs.
You may be left in doubt about the Bostonian's character, but need not doubt his capacity to parse a sentence, or spell without any resemblance of blunder the word "idiosyncrasy." Boston, having made up its mind, sticks to it. Many years ago it decided that the religious societies ought to hold a public anniversary in June, and it never wavers.
Do you see it?" Stebbins looked into the Bostonian's face, hesitated, and said with an apologetic tone in his voice: "Well, everybody looks better one time than another. You've been working too hard, maybe." "But do I look yellow?" "Well, to tell you the truth, Joppy, you do yellow as a gourd not always, just now and then when you walk fast or run upstairs." "I've been afraid of that.
He was a civic-bred man, with an intense love of law and order; the kind of man who is the first to take that law and order into his own hands when he does not find it existing to please him. He had a Bostonian's respect for respectability, tradition, and propriety, but was willing to face irregularity and impropriety to create order elsewhere.
It gave Dan a sense of liberation, of expansion; he filled his lungs with the cosmopolitan air in a sort of intoxication; without formulating it, he felt, with the astonishment which must always attend the Bostonian's perception of the fact, that there is a great social life in America outside of Boston.
The usual statesmen flocked in swarms like crows, black and monotonous. Lodge's plumage was varied, and, like his flight, harked back to race. He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine it. Adams, too, was Bostonian, and the Bostonian's uncertainty of attitude was as natural to him as to Lodge.
As for Cyrus, he had never brought a razor into the woods since that memorable trip when the bear had overhauled his knapsack; so the Bostonian's chin was covered with a thick black stubble. Neither of the youths, however, was at present giving a thought to his hirsute adornment, about which questionable compliments were frequently bandied.
Winton nodded absently. It was one of his minor fads to ignore his lineage, which ran decently back to a Colonial governor on his father's side, and to assert that he did not know his grandfather's middle name which was accounted for by the very simple fact that the elder Winton had no middle name. "Well, that settles it definitely," was the Bostonian's comment. "Miss Carteret is of the sang azur.
Silas Osgood held out his courtly hand in welcome It would have been a very bitter mood that could have withstood the Bostonian's greeting. "We were looking for you a little earlier in the morning," he said, when the first greetings were over. "You come so seldom nowadays that we feel you ought to come as early as possible." Smith laughed.
Keep it up here's the other cheek!" On this particular night Joplin, as I have said, had broken out on diet. Some movement of Marny's connected with the temporary relief of the lower button of his waistcoat had excited the great Bostonian's wrath. The men were seated at dinner inside the coffee-room, Johann and Tine serving.
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