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"One can imagine that she was grateful. People of that kind how snobbish I sound, but you know what I mean are rather stranded in Calcutta, aren't they? They haven't any world here;" and, with the quick glance which deprecated her timid clevernesses, she added, "The arts conspire to be absent." "Ah, don't misunderstand. If there was any gratitude it was all mine.
"Oh, I don't envy Hudson anything he possesses," Singleton said, "because to take anything away would spoil his beautiful completeness. 'Complete, that 's what he is; while we little clevernesses are like half-ripened plums, only good eating on the side that has had a glimpse of the sun. Nature has made him so, and fortune confesses to it!
With your fire-tubes, your handling of troops, and your other fiendish clevernesses, you may not be easy to overthrow by mere human means, though, forsooth, these poor rebels who yap against your city walls have contrived to hold their ground for long enough now. It may be that you are becoming enervated; I do not know.
Yet there was somehow a point of view at which, if one looked carefully, his own sort of man shriveled and the Hallowell sort towered. "I must be going," Norman said. "No don't come with me. I know the way. I've interrupted you long enough." And he put out his hand and, by those little clevernesses of manner which he understood so well, made it impossible for Hallowell to go with him to Dorothy.
"One can imagine that she was grateful. People of that kind how snobbish I sound, but you know what I mean are rather stranded in Calcutta, aren't they? They haven't any world here;" and with the quick glance which deprecated her timid clevernesses, she added, "The arts conspire to be absent." "Ah, don't misunderstand. If there was any gratitude it was all mine.
You did promise the other lady marriage. 'No doubt. No doubt I was a fool; and I paid for my folly. I bought her off. Having fallen into the common scrape, having been pleased by her prettinesses and clevernesses and women's ways, I did as so many other men have done. I got out of it as best I could without treachery and without dishonour. I bought her off.
Having finally made up his mind as to the insoluble nature of the female problem, he seems inclined to discard mere clevernesses and prettinesses and to advance into the broad arena of real life, with its diversity of actors and its multiplicity of interests. Both Bartley Hubbard in "A Modern Instance" and Silas Lapham in the book before us strike us as admirable characterizations.
He came out of his theories and clevernesses; his premature man-of-the-worldness, on which he had prided himself on his travels, "shrank like a thing ashamed" before this real sorrow.
He came out of his theories and clevernesses; his premature man-of-the-worldness, on which he had prided himself on his travels, 'shrank like a thing ashamed' before this real sorrow.
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