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"If Nanda's so like her, WAS she so exquisite?" "Oh yes; every one was agreed about that." Mr. Longdon kept his eyes on the face, trying a little, Vanderbank even thought, to conceal his own. "She was one of the greatest beauties of her day." "Then IS Nanda so like her?" Vanderbank persisted, amused at his friend's transparency. "Extraordinarily. Her mother told me all about her."
To keep still meanwhile was, for this person, more comprehensively, to keep it all up; and to keep it all up was, if that seemed on consideration best, not, for the day or two, to go back to the palace. The day or two passed stretched to three days; and with the effect, extraordinarily, that Densher felt himself in the course of them washed but the more clean.
"Not much to thank for, according to you!" observed Lady Niton, grimly. "Oh, well, he's in!" Lady Lucy drew a long breath. "But people have behaved so extraordinarily! That man that clergyman at Beechcote Mr. Lavery. He's been working night and day against Oliver. Really, I think parsons ought to leave politics alone." "Lavery?" said Bobbie. "I thought he was a Radical.
"Do you remember her, Christopher?" Christopher nodded. "Elizabeth Hibbault," went on Aymer slowly, "was extraordinarily beautiful, with the beauty of grace rather than of feature. She was as distinct from the rest of her clamorous family as a pearl from pebbles. She was an enthusiast, a dreamer, passionately sincere, passionately pitiful. She recognised truth as a water diviner finds water.
Soon the blooming hedges cease, and are succeeded by a great bare plain, out of which numerous flat hillocks raise themselves. Both hills and plain, when we passed, served for pasturage; but from August to January they are sown with rice; and fields of batata are occasionally seen. The number of streams sent down by the Isaróg, into San Miguel and Lagonoy bays, is extraordinarily large.
The Dutchman phrase is longer and at the same time less poignant; here it is brief and extraordinarily expressive; there it is not developed, nor, after some repetitions, heard again; here it is made the most of musically and appears so late as in the Dusk of the Gods. But the situations are analogous.
The girl, even at first glance, was extraordinarily pretty. She was small and very slender of build. She wore stout high-laced tan shoes, a heavy woollen skirt that fell to her shoe-tops and a short, belted coat, with a high collar buttoned tight about her throat. She was covered now with snow. Her face and the locks of hair that strayed from under her knitted cap were soaking wet.
The dauphin embraced her and pressed a glowing kiss upon her eyes and upon her lips. "You are extraordinarily affectionate to-day, my little Louis Charles," said the queen, with a smile. "What is the cause of that?" "That comes from the fact that to-day I have nothing to give you excepting kisses not a single flower.
In the last centuries of the Republic the social development had occasioned the complete decay of the Roman peasantry, and the free artisans had fared little better. In the place of the old Rome had arisen the capital of an empire, inhabited by a population of a million and of extraordinarily mixed composition.
Possibly they ate extremely little during the course of the dinner, and talked extraordinarily much on subjects that interested neither; but the main point at least was gained. They dined. The conventionalities were appeased; the silent, watchful servants who waited on them were given no food for comment.
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