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The stationer, fitting shelves in his back shop, was a man of observation and some eccentricity. "Poll," said he to his wife, "it's an uncertain business, is the book-trade. A Court Guide hasn't been asked for over that counter, no, not for six months, and here's two parties come in and look at it in a morning. There's nothing goes off, to depend on, but hymns.
The architecture is generally of the pointed Gothic style, but there are likewise carved arches over the doors and windows, and a variety which does not produce the effect of confusion, a magnificent eccentricity, an exuberant imagination flowering out in stone.
Other works were Panopticon, in which he suggested improvements on prison discipline, Discourse on Civil and Penal Legislation , Punishments and Rewards , Parliamentary Reform Catechism , and A Treatise on Judicial Evidence. By the death of his f. he inherited a competency on which he was able to live in frugal elegance, not unmixed with eccentricity.
He has a reputation for eccentricity which he feels he must keep up, and this notion of assuming a name evidently appealed to him as an inspiration." "But why did he come out here?" I asked. "Can you tell me that?" Miss Thorn flushed slightly, and ignored the question. "I met the 'Celebrity, as you call him," she said, "for the first time last winter, and I saw him frequently during the season.
When she's hungry, which I should judge was all the time, she drops in casually upon a patient and humorously raids the pantry all with that air of nonchalant good fellowship which shields her from much criticism, since what in reality is miserliness and gluttony passes very well for amusing eccentricity." Dan Treu laughed. "You've got her sized up right in that way, Dago.
It is a crotchet and an eccentricity in a man to desire a wife with a bright mind, but since there are such persons, it is just as well to pay a slight attention to the mind in odd moments when one is not engaged upon the more urgent business of the body.
It is the common belief that between eccentricity and insanity a great gulf is fixed; and in courts of justice this notion is often used with great effect to overthrow the conclusions of the medical expert, who, while he admits their essential difference, finds it not very easy to avoid the trap which a quick-witted lawyer is sure to make of it.
"No, no!" she almost faltered, bending under the storm of unreserve which had broken in this reserved man. "An eccentricity, when I was just being simply myself, doing what I was meant to do, what I could do, drawing my inspiration not from the fashions of the moment but from the subjects, the words, the thoughts, which found their way into my soul.
On the contrary, shocked by the idle and gay turn of the knight's conversation, the frivolities of his mind, and his heretical disregard for the forms of the religious sect which she so zealously espoused, she was utterly insensible to the points which redeemed and ennobled his sterling and generous character; utterly obtuse to his warmth of heart, his overflowing kindness of disposition, his charity, his high honour, his justice of principle, that nothing save benevolence could warp, and the shrewd, penetrating sense, which, though often clouded by foibles and humorous eccentricity, still made the stratum of his intellectual composition.
In those early days there was no regular librarian, the professors taking turn and turn about in keeping the reading-room open for a few hours, three or four days a week. They gave a shrug of surprise at his eccentricity, investigated briefly his eminently sober-minded college career, and heaved a sigh of relief as they granted his extraordinary request.
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