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He could not agree with her that the leading woman was beautiful, but she laughed when he remarked, with his droll intonation, that the star reminded him of a dressed-up mannikin in a clothing-store window. "That is just the kind of thing I imagined you would say. My aunt, Mrs. Owen, says that you always say something different." "Oh, Aunt Sally! She's the grandest of women.
"You can't. So you have said. And I have asked you to tell me your reasons, that I may combat them one by one." "It's no use. We're too different." "That we are different, thank God! is a reason for and not against." "No, no; not when it's such a huge difference. We're like a bird and a fish." "Don't call me a fish. I object." "We don't think the same about hardly anything."
The great laws of morality are indeed written in our hearts, and may be discovered by reason; but our reason is of slow growth, very unequally dispensed to different persons; liable to error, and confined within very narrow limits in all.
It is something like those American photographs which seek to display what is general about a type by combining a great number of photographs of different heads over each other on one plate.
I sent my letter secretly; but no answer came, and I thought there was no hope for me. Our life in America did not last much longer. My father suddenly told me we were to pack up and go to Hamburg, and I was rather glad. I hoped we might get among a different sort of people, and I knew German quite well some German plays almost all by heart. My father spoke it better than he spoke English.
In ordinary cases, they separated, as it were, into different tracks; but this diversity was productive not of jarring, but of harmony. A romantic and untutored disposition like mine may be supposed liable to strong impressions from perpetual converse with persons of their age and sex. The elder was soon discovered to have already disposed of her affections.
Such a room as this, unless very poorly built, would not permit the in-take of sufficient air for the draft of a big fireplace, whereas in our slab cabin or log bungalow the conditions are quite different. For the ordinary room, therefore, a fair average size for the fireplace opening is three feet in width by two and a half feet high, with a depth half the width.
His talents will now be measured by a very different standard. His merits will not pass through any subordinate grades, but leap at once into the highest posts; and, as he is even more proud than ambitious, how he must bless one who raises him, without effort, into positions of eminent command!"
At hotels on the Continent of Europe different dinners are cooked at different hours; but here the same dinner is kept always going. The house breakfast is maintained on a similar footing. Huge boilers of tea and coffee are stewed down and kept hot. To me those meals were odious.
The first few times she noticed this she flushed prettily and said nothing to Mademoiselle Valle who was generally with her. But, after her attention had been attracted by the same thing on several different days, she said uneasily: "Am I quite tidy, Mademoiselle?" "Quite," Mademoiselle answered just a shade uneasy herself.
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