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"I have a few directions to give, and then I'm for the post-office and the Eagle." "I will precede you there," answered the other. "Allow me, sir, before we part, to express the gratification I have felt in serving, to the best of my poor abilities, a gentleman of whom the party expects so much " "Rather allow me, sir, to express my gratitude " and so on through the stilted compliment of the day.
He asked Paganini to sell him one, and the reply was, "I will not sell you the violin, but I will present it to you in compliment to your high talents." Sivori travelled to Nice to receive the instrument from his master's own hands. Paganini was then it was in 1840 in a deplorable condition, and could hardly speak.
"Thank you," she said, "I should have liked to have danced with you very much; but, after all, it is in the intention that is the greatest compliment, so I will not mind too much. I think I will be very happy even if I do not dance at all."
The boys, after the manner of their kind, were bad hands at compliment; but they managed to express in their best Russian their thanks for the extreme kindness which they had received.
As long as I'm good-looking, I won't complain because I wasn't born with the genius of a Bates." "Thank you for the compliment, Frank, though I suppose it means that I am homely. I haven't got any genius or education to spare." When Monday evening arrived ten pupils presented themselves, of whom six were boys, or young men, and four were girls. Leonard Morgan felt encouraged.
He would fain have greeted the king with some word that should show sensibility to the royal graciousness, without compromising republican severity, "clothing some great and useful truth in a fine and deserved compliment."
"Yes, the warrens are over yonder," said Tom, bobbing his head in the right direction. "What?" asked Polly, in perplexity. "Rabbit-warrens; oh, I forgot, you haven't lived in England. You seem so much like an English girl, though," said Tom, paying the highest compliment he knew of. "Well, what are they?" asked Polly, quite overcome by the compliment coming from Tom.
People shake me warmly by the hand and tell me that they like my books. It only bores me. Not that I am superior to compliment nobody is but because I cannot be sure that they mean it. They would say just the same had they never read a line I had written. If I visit a house and find a book of mine open face downwards on the window-seat, it sends no thrill of pride through my suspicious mind.
When he turned round there was a redness about his eyes, and his voice was husky: "It's a wonderful thing to me to know that Teeny-bits has had you two to look out for him all these years, and it's the best compliment I ever had for you to say that you'd like to adopt me too. We'll share Teeny-bits together and I'll be satisfied if I can make him care as much about me as he cares about you."
Your speech upon this occasion is the greatest that has been made by any of us, for which we wish to honor and defend you. This I consider no ordinary compliment, coming from Lincoln, for he was no flatterer nor disposed to bestow praise where it was undeserved.
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