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He consented to sell them at that price, to pleasure him, and despatched them to El Mamoun, who assigned them an elegant lodging and used to sit with them therein, marvelling at their beauty and grace, no less than at their varied colours and the excellence of their speech.
This public place of execution for ordinary criminals was singularly enough in the most elegant and frequented quarter of the Hague.
I think some of them struck against the base of his nose before they came out to strengthen the hearts of men, to rejoice God, and to thunder forever down the ages. It is, of course, more elegant to speak as we New Yorkers do. Everybody knows that. And I should advise all men to cultivate the accent and intonation all men who are at leisure to perfect themselves.
I must leave you now; take his arm, Harcourt, for half an hour, and then join us at dinner at the Piazza." Mr Harcourt was an elegant young man of about five-and-twenty. Equally pleased with each other's externals, we were soon familiar: he was witty, sarcastic, and well bred. After half an hour's conversation he asked me what I thought of the major. I looked him in the face and smiled.
One especially, which combines the upper portion of a human figure, wearing the puffed-out hair or wig, which the Parthians affected, with an elegant leaf rising from the neck of the capital, and curving gracefully under the abacus, has decided merit, and is "suggestive of the later Byzantine style."
She wished to cross the street at this point, but had to wait while a great number of carriages drove by. Most of them were occupied by gentlemen, many of whom carried field-glasses. She knew that they were returning from the races at the Prater. There came an elegant equipage in which were seated a young man and a girl, the latter dressed in a white spring costume.
This feature of our manners will perhaps serve to suggest a suspicion, in the masculine world, of the domestic drama revealed by this exceptional chemise. Caroline had put on a pair of Scotch thread stockings, little prunella buskins, and her most deceptive corsets. She had her hair dressed in the fashion that most became her, and embellished it with a cap of the most elegant form.
In a few years Mr. Jerome retired from the active management of its affairs, but continued nominally at its head as its president. He built for himself an elegant mansion in New Haven, where he gathered about him his family and the friends which his sterling qualities and upright character had drawn to him, and here he hoped to pass the remainder of his days.
Then, when all is settled, the social style with which he asks you to take a "cutlet" with him at the "Clarendon," not to go home are only to be equalled by the admirable tact on the ground the studiously elegant salute to the adverse party, half a la Napoleon, and half Beau Brummell the politely offered snuff-box the coquetting raillery about 10 paces or 12 are certainly the beau ideal of the stoicism which preludes sending your friend out of the world like a gentleman.
He took little delight in those appearances either of nature or art, for which the poet ought to have the eye of a painter. Nor had he much more sense of the elegant in numbers and in sound. There were indeed certain rounds of metrical arrangement which he loved to repeat, but he could not go beyond them.
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