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The announcement that Ella Hylton had accepted George Chapman provoked the customary sensation and surprise in their respective sets, and perhaps with rather more justification than usual. Miss Hylton had undeniable beauty of a spiritual and rather exalté type, and was generally understood to be highly cultivated.

And so likewise in Fraunce, and in Spaine: but that vertue, whiche the writers did not celebrate in particuler menne, thei celebrated generally in the people, where thei exalte to the starres, the obstinatenesse that was in them, to defende their libertie.

They consider me an exalté. It must be likewise taken into account, and they say so themselves, that Mr. Seward's oracular vaticinations about the end of the rebellion from sixty to ninety days confuse the judgment of diplomats. Mr. Seward's conversation and words have an official meaning for the diplomats, are the subject of their dispatches, and they continually find that when Mr.

Had I not once met a man in armour, not plate, but the beautiful chain armour of the thirteenth century, sitting on a bench eating his lunch, his helmet beside him? a model no doubt come from a studio for the lunch hour, or maybe he was an exalte or a fumist; a very innocent fumist if he were one, not one of the Quarter certainly, for even the youngest among us would know that it would take more than a suit of armour to astonish the frequenters of the gardens.

"We were as comfortable," said he, "as you and I are at this fire-side." The poor fellow was not twenty-one years old. "La jeunesse d'aujour-d'hui est elevee dans d'autres principes; l'amour de la gloire sur tout a jetè des profondes racines; il est devenu l'attribut le plus distinctif du caractere national, exaltè par vingt ans de succes continues.

While here he renewed the acquaintance of Miss Kitchener, a school mistress of advanced ideas, who had the care of Captain Pilfold's children. To this acquaintance we owe a great number of letters which throw much light on Shelley's exalte character at this period, and which afford most amusing reading.

Here at the edge of the wood though why she continues, a young demoiselle, to the edge of the wood does not make itself clear she beholds her ancestor, as on a pedestal, young, pale, but very handsome and exalte, pardon!" "Nothing," said Dick hurriedly; "go on!" "She beseeches him why! He says he is lost! She faints away, on the instant, there regard me! Incredible!"

He's quite exalté; living on nectar and ambrosia what he has to spare for us poor crawling things on earth is only a few dry crumbs. I didn't even ask him to come to rehearsal. Besides, he thinks you're in love with me and that it wouldn't be honourable to cut in. He's capable of that isn't it charming?" "If he were to relent and give up his scruples would you marry him?" Peter asked.

But girls must learn now to accept simpler and blunter manners from their men friends. She guessed that Pamela was in that self-conscious, exalté mood of first youth which she remembered so well in herself fretting too, no doubt, poor child! over the parting from Desmond.