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And did she think I wanted it, poor deluded, infatuated, extravagant lady? My gondolier, behind me, must have seen my ears red as I wondered, sitting there under the fluttering tenda, with my hidden face, noticing nothing as we passed wondered whether her delusion, her infatuation had been my own reckless work. Did she think I had made love to her, even to get the papers?
Of course you're one of the young people too, Mr. Smith." "I don't think there's much of youth to choose between you and me, Mrs. Bloomfield," said I, "if I may venture to say so. But I fear I do belong to the young people, if a liking for extravagant stories, so long as they mean well, you know is to be the test of the classification. I fear I have a depraved taste, that way.
Burnet or Mitchell, who waited quietly until Rayner's extravagant delight should have spent itself. The other men, too, began to see how ridiculous Rayner was making himself. They soon moved off, by twos and threes, back to their work; and presently Rayner found himself alone with his employer and the new man just come down from London. "I suppose," said Mr.
Its officers were either bound to him as his debtors, or, as his creditors, closely connected with his interests, and the preservation of his power. The regiments he had entrusted to his own relations, creatures, and favourites. He, and he alone, could discharge to the troops the extravagant promises by which they had been lured into his service.
As Hill neatly puts it, "Monasticism was healthy, active and vigorous; it became idle, listless and extravagant; it engendered its own corruption, and out of that corruption came death."
"They are like a row of Japanese lanterns, all blown out long ago and swinging about in a wind," she wrote an extravagant image that yet conveys something of the large, empty, unilluminating effect of a sort of social intercourse very vividly.
Kirkwood! And it's all because of me! You've beggared yourself " "Not precisely; I was beggared to begin with." He hastened to disclaim the extravagant generosity of which she accused him. "I had only three or four pounds to my name that night we met.... I haven't told you I " "You've told me nothing, nothing whatever about yourself," she said reproachfully.
Why, just look at it! How much, now? Give me a bid but don't be rash; be prudent, be prudent, men; remember your Purser's accounts, and don't be betrayed into extravagant bids."
John; the impetuous spirit of Hollis, violent and sincere, open and entire in his enmities and in his friendships; the enthusiastic genius of young Vane, extravagant in the ends which he pursued, sagacious and profound in the means which he employed; incited by the appearances of religion, negligent of the duties of morality.
Nothing, however is more true, than that, even among the richest of the Quakers, there is frequently as much plainness and simplicity in their outward dress, as among the poor; and where the exceptions exist, they are seldom carried to an extravagant, and never to a preposterous extent.
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