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We are still inclined to take a conventional attitude toward the poor, seeing them through the comfortable haze of our own excellent intentions, and content to know that we wish them well, without being at any great pains to know them as they really are.
It was a conventional song of the camps and trail, running at its beginning as near as may be to these words: Don't you monkey with my Lulu girl Or I'll tell you what I'll do and so on. The roan was inured to it, and did not mind. But even the poorest singer will, after a certain time, gain his own consent to refrain from contributing to the world's noises.
A few moments afterwards they mounted from the lower terrace and came towards us. Lackaday's face was set in one of its tight-lipped expressionless moods. Lady Auriol's cheek was flushed, and though she smiled conventional greeting, her eyes were very serious. "I am sorry to have put into danger the General's health, madame," said she in her clear and British French.
Besides, over yonder every one is pinched and trimmed back to the same conventional pattern. They sacrifice too much for uniformity." "Still," said Ida, once more harping on the idea that troubled her, "there are only wild flowers in the wilderness. One understands that we have nothing like your peerless English blooms." Weston looked at her with a little gleam in his eyes.
A little later Miss Smithson shook hands with Suzanna's father, murmuring something conventional about his being fortunate in the possession of such an interesting family. Then she was gone. The children, bidding father good-bye, hastened on home. They burst into the house, anxious to tell mother all about the meeting with Miss Smithson. Mrs. Procter listened interestedly.
Lascelles had inspired me with a certain sympathy and dispassionate regard. Cultivated she was not, in the conventional sense, but she knew more than can be imbibed from books. She knew life at first hand, had drained the cup for herself, and yet could savour the lees. Not that she enlarged any further on her own past. Mrs.
She had soon found that he expected no conventional solemnity; he laughed himself at the idea of Addie Tristram wanting people to pull long faces, and keep them long when pulled, because she had laid her burden down and was at peace. Cecily found she might be merry, and merry she was.
I always liked a scoop myself, but folks don't know much nowadays. What do you think of it, young man?" Geoffrey thought it looked like a lunar halo, but he did not say so; he said something prim and conventional about its being very pretty and becoming. "Are you going to sit down?" asked Mrs. Tree. "I can't abide to see folks standing round as if they was hat-poles."
Impossible for me to change. Have invested everything. Expect letter." Mechanically he counted the words when he had written this. On the fair presumption that the company would send "everything" as one word, there were still two more than the conventional ten, and, from force of habit, he struck out the words "for me." But he had no sooner done this than he felt a sense of shame.
Ault arose and shook hands cordially, and then went on, without delay for any conventional talk. "I sent for you, Mr. Burnett, because I wanted your help, and because I thought I might do you a good turn. My wife has been reading your story. I don't have much time for such things myself, but her constant talk about it has given me an idea.
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