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I will call on you if I see anything." For several minutes, Craig and I busied ourselves looking about, and we did not have to feign interest, either. "Often things are not as represented," he whispered to me, after a while, "but a connoiseur can tell spurious goods. These are the real thing, mostly." "Not one in fifty can tell the difference," put in the voice of Sato, at his elbow.
Prétendu Connoiseur qui sur l'Antique glose, Idolatrant le hom, sans connoitre la Chose, Vrai Peste des beaux Arts, sans Gout sans Equité, Quitez ce ton pedant, ce mépris affecté, Pour tout ce que le Tems n'a pas encore gaté. Ne peus tu pas, en admirant Les Maitres de la Grece, ceux d l'Italie Rendre justice également A ceux qu'a nourris ta Patrie?
The whole family looked at them with great respect. "Oh, they are indeed swell boats!" Monsieur Dufour repeated gravely, as he examined them like a connoiseur. He had been in the habit of rowing in his younger days, he said, and when he had spat in his hands and he went through the action of pulling the oars he did not care a fig for anybody.
"The banks of Nith," remarked Helen, examining the pretty Scotch landscape with the air of a connoiseur. "Yes, I believe Jennie will like that," said Marguerite, taking the proffered sketch. "Like it? she will adore it! for if she be like me she will admire anything that is Scotch Scotch music oh, girls! is there anything on this earth more enchanting than a quaint old Scotch ballad?"
The rooms were charming. There was a generous, kindly warmth about them that suggested luxury, refinement and the hand of a connoiseur. The rugs were of rare quality, the furnishings elegant, the appointments modern and complete. She could not suppress a long breath of surprise and relief: it was no easy matter to convince herself that she was not in some fastidious English home.
Our honest neighbour's goose and dumplings were fine, and the lamb's-wool, even in the opinion of my wife, who was a connoiseur, was excellent. It is true, his manner of telling stories was not quite so well. They were very long, and very dull, and all about himself, and we had laughed at them ten times before: however, we were kind enough to laugh at them once more.
The whole family looked at them with great respect. "Oh, they are indeed swell boats!" Monsieur Dufour repeated gravely, as he examined them like a connoiseur. He had been in the habit of rowing in his younger days, he said, and when he had spat in his hands and he went through the action of pulling the oars he did not care a fig for anybody.
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