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I captivated everybody's friendship, and particularly the general's, who, having heard me say that I was going to Naples only to gratify an amorous fancy, entreated me to spend a month with him and to sacrifice my whim. But it was all in vain. My heart was unoccupied; I longed to see Lucrezia and Therese, whose charms after five years I could scarcely recollect.
"What always spoils carol singing," said Monty sententiously, "is that everybody's generally so beastly out of tune. They don't seem able to keep the pitch without a harmonium." "Pity we can't carry a harmonium with us!" "Why shouldn't we?" suggested Neale. "I don't mean I'm going to haul the thing on my back, so you needn't grin. I've a better notion than that.
So saying, the Practical man, rotund and fat and usually dressed in black, will project his lower lip and wrap it over the upper, nodding his head as if to add: "Solid people, those; nothing to be said against them." Ask no further; Practical men settle everybody's status by figures, incomes, or solid acres, a phrase of their lexicon.
Meanwhile, the property, I am told, was really well managed. Ah! that fellow Willy was a born genius, and could have managed everybody's affairs except his own. Will Losely is in prison on a charge; of robbing his employer." "Robbing! incredible!" exclaimed Lionel.
He kept out of everybody's way as much as possible, sat out in the wood-shed when he was not at work, and could not be persuaded to bring down his fiddle. He seemed in a fair way to be transformed into "the melancholy Jaques." It was Serena who broke the spell; and she did it in a woman's way, the simplest way in the world by taking no notice of it.
But quite of her own accord she took an extraordinary, ancient pack of cards out of Snandalia's hand. "Whose fortune shall I tell?" "Why everybody's, of course!" Paklin exclaimed. "What a dear old thing......... You can do what you like with her," he thought. "Tell us all our fortunes, granny dear," he said aloud. "Tell us our fates, our characters, our futures, everything!"
"Well, there is a strong strain of madness in our family. If you haven't noticed it yourself all your friends must have." "One is so dreadfully under everybody's eyes at Homburg. At least you might give him a preliminary trial at Etretat." "And be surrounded by Americans trying to talk French? No, thank you. I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French.
"Why doesn't your friend try attending to his own, then, the medical business, instead of interfering all the time with other people's?" The Cooney answered quite easily: "You see, he'd say this was his business." Then she smiled a little, thoughtfully, and said: "He'd say, Cally, that the world's all one family, and everybody's responsible for everybody else.
I recollect there was something that was like a duck, and some canned tomatoes, and a kind of fruit with a yellow rind. "There's two hundred in my army," says Craney sociably, "in four divisions. This is a special one. Mighty fond of drilling they are. Fact, 'most everybody's in the army. They're softening under discipline, but some of 'em are bloodthirsty yet."
"She'd be vummed," the indignant old lady said, "if she would not write to Lucy herself if Guy did not quit such doin's," and thus resolving she kept on her way, while the subject of her wrath was, it may be, more than half repenting of his decision to stay, inasmuch as he began to have an unpleasant consciousness of himself being in everybody's way.
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