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Therefore I can only add that it was a figure, a poise, absolutely faultless, youthful, beautiful, erect, wholesome, gracious, graceful, charmingly buoyant and well, I cannot describe her figure, and I shall not try." "Exactly; don't try." "No," said Harren mournfully, "it is useless"; and he relapsed into enchanted retrospection. "Who was she?" asked Mr. Keen softly. "I don't know."
Far in front the cavalry the 5th Lancers and 19th Hussars with the Natal Volunteers were sweeping over the patches of plain and struggling up the hills in search of that reported laager. But not a Boer of it was to be seen. At nine o'clock, having advanced eight or nine miles, the whole column took up a strong position, with all its baggage and train in faultless order, and went to sleep.
That there is no portion of human wisdom so select and faultless that it does not contain the seeds of its own refutation. That he who is in the clutches of the law may think himself lucky if he escape with the loss of his tail. That liberty is a convertible term, which means exclusive privileges in one country, no privileges in another, and inclusive privileges in all.
This is a good style of its kind; and the following passage from Cecilia is also in a good style, though not in a faultless one. We say, with confidence, either Sam Johnson or the Devil: "Even the imperious Mr. Delvile was more supportable here than in London. Secure in his own castle, he looked round him with a pride of power and possession which softened while it swelled him.
Ay, even if the brother she was expecting should bring a companion, or a patron of art who desired her father's work, the room need not fear a critical eye; and she was so well assured of the faultless neatness of her own person, that she only passed a hand over her brown hair, and with an involuntary movement pulled her simple white robe more tightly through her girdle.
His form was faultless tall, erect, and well developed, his eyes penetrating rather than piercing, his voice strong and commanding. His was a noble, generous soul, cool and brave almost to rashness. He was idolized by his troops and beloved as a comrade and commander. Under the guise of apparent sternness, there was a gentle flow of humor.
If I found him a man capable of regarding human nature from a stand-point of his own, I should close with the offer at once. If, on the contrary, he was a common-place man, who made faultless responses, and cherished the friendship of the undertaker, I should decline.
Though, of course, you're not to blame for not coming to see two frights as we must look not having been educated to be able to do up our dresses in that faultless style and perhaps not having the entire control over an establishment like you; yet, I suppose that, even if the Alcalde did give us carte blanche of the laundry HERE, we couldn't do it, unaided even by Mrs. Markham.
Or was it in the perfection of a faultless, if somewhat slender and still undeveloped figure, half concealed by the vivid "Cardinal" cloak she wore, which one little hand held loosely together about her, while the other dabbled in the water by her side?
"I'm not in the mood to make a spectacle of myself. I have been shown how one perfect member of society regards me, and I am not equal to meeting any more faultless people to-night." "Oh, nonsense!" cried Stanton, irritably. "You must come down." "Break in the door then, and carry me down," was the sharp reply.
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