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And my engagement-book I can leave with perfect confidence to my wife." "Mary is no doubt a very capable woman; I noticed that afresh, when last she was with us," returned John; and went on to tick off Mary's qualities like a connoisseur appraising the points of a horse. "A misfortune that she is not blessed with any family," he added.
We can carry back what we like personally, but for Maud to carry home a doubtful picture into the atmosphere she has to live in why, it would be intolerable with her uncle a connoisseur, all her friends owners of masterpieces." Uncle Ezra had a flowing style. "It would expose her to annoyance, to mortification constant, daily.
Spread these articles throughout your rooms as though you were a connoisseur, and on Thursday next when Mr. Harold Van Gilt calls upon you to see your collection you will sell it to him for not less than eight thousand dollars." "Aha!" said I. "I see the scheme." "This you will immediately remit to me here," she continued, excitedly. "Mr. Van Gilt will pay cash." I laughed. "Why eight thousand?"
When some of them tried their infantile hands at composition he encouraged them. Pepys heard at least one of their achievements, and records his pleasure. And it must be remembered that Pepys was a composer and connoisseur he would go many miles to hear a piece of music. Cooke died in 1672, and Pelham Humphries became master of "the children."
He judged his heroes' achievements with the intelligent impartiality of a connoisseur, and he permitted no other prejudice than an unfailing loyalty to interrupt his opinion. And when in the manner of a bookseller's hack he compiled a Comical and Tragical History of the Lives and Adventures of the most noted Bayliffs, adoration of the Royalists persuaded him to miss his chance.
"You are thinking of the Valdez sapphire, are you not? Some day," he went on with forced composure, "I may have the pleasure of showing it to you. It is at my banker's just now." Miss Panton's steps were heard in the hall. "You are well known as a connoisseur, Mr. Acton," he went on hurriedly. "Is your collection valuable?
His step, his voice, his words now and then to the friend or two whom he had the habit of bringing in with him, the mere knowledge that he "made pictures," such pictures as she looked at in the windows and in art-dealers' rooms, where any shop-girl, as freely as the most elegant connoisseur, can go in and delight her eyes, and inform her perceptions, these, without the face even, which had turned its magnetism straight upon hers only once or twice, and whose revelation was that of a life related to things wide and full and manifold, gave her the stimulating sense of a something to which she had not come, but to which she felt a strange belonging.
"You can do a great deal for me, Count," answered von Schalckenberg, composedly. "But first of all," he continued, "I have a little thing here that I wish to show you; you are a connoisseur in such things, and it will interest you." So saying, the professor slipped his hand into his pocket, and produced a pistol, made apparently of polished silver, but really of aethereum.
There was other furniture in the garret, certainly more interesting to a connoisseur and hunter of antiquities; but Barrie was neither. She had contrived to seize upon a good deal of queer miscellaneous knowledge outside lesson hours, yet she did not know the difference between Sheraton and Hepplewhite.
The memory of the Californian stranger was perpetuated in the game of poker which became popular in the capital of Celebes from that time and in a powerful cocktail, the recipe for which is transmitted in the Kwang-tung dialect from head boy to head boy of the Chinese servants in the Sunda Hotel even to this day. Willems was a connoisseur in the drink and an adept at the game.
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