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Thackeray's tale is written in a tone of mock mysticism, but he confesses that he likes his own story, in which the strange hero, through all his many lives or reappearances, and through all the countless loves on which he fatuously plumes himself, retains a slight German-Jewish accent.
It was incredible that she had not known why Peggy had gone out, that she should fatuously have told herself that the girl was probably working in the dairy; but in those days her mind was often half asleep with love for the unborn.
"I'm glad you're not a nun, darling!" he remarked fatuously. "If you had lived in the ancient Abbey, I shouldn't have been able to walk about the garden with you, should I?" "I suppose not," she ventured, "especially if you'd been a monk." "I dare say some of them did manage to do a little love-making sometimes, though. What's that story about the ghost?" "The White Nun, do you mean?
When we fatuously sought to make friends with him, he tucked his tail between his legs, and shivered as if we made goose-flesh come out on his spine; and once when I took him by his rope collar he fell down and shrieked.
She held tightly her hands and leaned back, awaiting the precious moment when the oracle would speak, when this modern magician of art would display his cunning. But he was fatuously commonplace in his remarks. "I have often told Madame Kéroulan that my successes in Europe do not appeal to me as those in far-away America. Dear America how it must enjoy a breath of real literature!" Mrs.
Nobody, therefore, was fool enough to admit having encountered him nobody save a half-witted youth who fatuously confided to a policeman that the had met the gentleman somewhere in the neighbourhood of the bibliographer's villa about the hour of midday. Under ordinary circumstances Signor Malipizzo would have been delighted to lay sacrilegious hands on Mr.
"You don't know anything!" Fatuously the Younger Man rose to his feet, still struggling for speech any old speech a sentence, a word, a cough, anything, in fact, that would make a noise. "Well, if little Miss Edgarton is little Miss Edgarton," he babbled idiotically, "who in creation are you?" "Who am I?" stammered the Older Man perplexedly.
We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them. Of course there was always present the harrowing consciousness of the difference in economic condition between ourselves and our neighbors.
Biddy referred with sweet cynical eyes to the fine happy stride she had thus taken in the direction of enlightened spinsterhood; and Nick hung his head, immensely abashed and humiliated, for, modern as he had fatuously supposed himself, there were evidently currents more modern yet.
'If I only saw a chance of happiness for them I shouldn't mind so much. 'Why do you think they will be miserable if they are married? 'Of course they will. People who behave in that unprincipled way before 'Why, we used to sit in the garden, said Edith timidly. 'Oh, yes, of course; after your father had given his consent. 'And once or twice before. Bruce smiled rather fatuously.
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