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Shelley's wife had had the most contradictory education possible for a young girl of an ordinary and unimaginative nature the conventional surface education of a school of that time followed by the talks with Shelley, which were doubtless far beyond her comprehension. What could be the outcome of such a marriage?
* A glossary of South African words will be found at the end of the book. Stafford nodded assent. "But England is a very conventional chef," he replied. "She likes the eggs for her omelette broken in the orthodox way." "She's not so particular where the eggs come from, is she?"
He tried to hold her hand, to kiss her, to take her in his arms, but she eluded him in a careful, wary and yet half yielding way. She wanted him to propose to her, not because she was anxious to trap him, but because her conventional conscience told her these things were not right outside a definite engagement and she wanted to be engaged first. She was already in love with him.
That was not love. ... Perhaps there may have been a touch of the maternal passion about her feeling for this man. ... Nothing else nothing more than that, and the eternal indefinable charity for all boys which is inherent in all womanhood the consciousness of the enchantment that a boy has for all women. ... Nothing more. ... Except that perhaps she had wondered whether he liked her as much as she liked him.... Or if, possibly, in his regard for her there were some slight depths between shallows a gratitude that is a trifle warmer than the conventional virtue
The conversation of many of the inmates was of the widest range and the most refreshing originality, and the demeanour of all, even when most free from the conventional trammels of outside society, bore evidence of an expensive, and in some cases of a Christian, upbringing.
In what way and to what extent does the existing economic system contribute to the creation of such genuine individuals? At its best it asks of every man who engages in a business occupation that he make as much money as he can, and the only conditions it imposes on this pursuit of money are those contained in the law of the land and a certain conventional moral code.
But limited as his reading is, it has not been so limited that he does not know that very grave things have happened in matters of faith, that the doctrinal schemes of the conventional faith are riddled targets, that creed and Bible do not mean what they appear to mean, but something quite different and indefinable, that the bishops, socially so much in evidence, are intellectually in hiding.
But she was conventional; shielded girls are accustomed to lean for a certain support on the proprieties, as bridgeplayers depend on rules. Peter came back to breakfast, but ate little. Harmony did not even sit down, but drank her cup of coffee standing, looking down at the snow below. Jimmy still slept. "Won't you sit down?" said Peter. "I'm not hungry, thank you."
He is once again 'a false gallant, his amorous intentions being shown by the orange, a conventional symbol for the breasts, poised lightly in his hand. As the lady turns to greet him, she puts a dot in the circle which she has just drawn on the wall a gesture which once again contains a hint of sex. On the picture's reverse the poem records a conversation galante.
This dress is both skirt and waist, but of late years those women who live in or near our civilization discard their native dress, and wear a skirt of calico, with the velvet shirt. The Havasupai Dress. The Havasupai men and women now wear as near the conventional dress of our race as their means will allow.
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