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"Yes, that's how I put it very clever. She has a way about her." "She has, James. Every one thinks so." "Well, Little-sing, give me a good meal, and then we'll talk." Mrs. Howland lifted the teapot and was preparing to pour out a cup of tea for Mr. Martin, when he looked at her, noticed her extreme elegance and grace, and made a spring toward her.
So far as it can be so, comedy was, in the hands of Terence, an instrument of moral teaching. Six of his comedies only remain, of which the Andrian and the Adelphi are the most interesting. If Terence was inferior to Plautus in life, bustle, and intrigue, and in the delineation of national character, he is superior in elegance of language and refinement of taste.
And he had had," she added, "his tea." Dodd had been looking all round had taken in, with the rest, the brightness, the distinguished elegance, as he supposed it, of the tea-service with which she was dealing and the variously tinted appeal of certain savoury edibles on plates.
It struck her that her attitude was unconventional, and by a lithe complicated movement, whereof Charlie noticed only the elegance and not the details, she swept round and, sitting, looked up at him. "I know who she was," she observed. "She very nearly knew who you were. You oughtn't to have come to the window." "She thought I was the ghost." "You shouldn't reckon on people being foolish."
The Ministerial Secretary glanced up from his papers, returned his friend's salutation and resumed his reading. He was dressed with his customary elegance and richness, but his form and face were fuller than when last before the reader, and his brown hair was besprinkled with gray. "I congratulate you, Beauchamp, on being the first to give the news," continued Château-Renaud.
Bland had only time enough to mutter, "I'll wait here till you register," before Johnny disappeared into the subdued elegance where Bland would not venture. "Till they throw yuh out, you boob," Bland amended his parting sentence. "Stoppin' at the Alexandria hnm!"
In the neighbourhood of Thames Court he had, indeed, many acquaintances; but the fineness of his language, acquired from his education, and the elegance of his air, in which he attempted to blend in happy association the gallant effrontery of Mr. Long Ned with the graceful negligence of Mr.
Cicero compared him with Plato for rhythm and elegance of language. He derived the manifold phenomena of the world from the different form, disposition, and arrangement of the innumerable elements or atoms as they become united. He is the founder of the atomic doctrine.
"Could heart desire more of elegance and comfort than you possess?" I glanced around the richly decorated apartment in which we were seated. "Gilded misery, Doctor!" She emphasized her words. I looked at her without speaking. She understood my expression of surprise. "I need not tell you, Doctor, that a fine house and fine furniture are not everything in this world."
Reggie took care of her, while Manisty disappeared ahead with Mrs. Burgoyne, and Aunt Pattie fell to the share of a certain Mr. Vanbrugh Neal, an elderly man tall and slim, and of a singular elegance of bearing, who had joined them at the Piazza, and seemed to be an old friend of Mr. Manisty's. Lucy looked round her in bewilderment. Before the first stroke of the bell the Piazza of St.
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