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Sometimes you see a space cleared in the street, and a foreigner playing, while a girl weather-beaten, tanned, and wholly uncomely in face and shabby in attire dances ballets. The common people look on, and never criticise or treat any of these poor devils unkindly or uncivilly; but I do not observe that they give them anything.
But it's all right, by Gawd only blew 'imself up, dirty foreigner little bits of 'im and no one else 'urt and now the Old Lady's comin' down the street she'll be 'ere in quarter of an 'our and won't we show 'er ... by Gawd ... flingin' their dirty bombs up there by the Marble Arch and killin' nobody but 'imself Gawd save the Old Lady " he rushed on. So that was it.
Gradually, as appetite was satisfied, tongues were loosened, and information about the wonderful foreigner, which had been fragmentary at first, flowed in a copious stream. Then commentary and question began in right earnest. "Have some more mikiak?" said Mrs Okiok to Pussimek. "No," replied Mrs P, with a sigh.
Miss Melmotte, who a very short time since had been known as Mademoiselle Marie, spoke English well, but as a foreigner. In regard to her it was acknowledged that she had been born out of England, some said in New York; but Madame Melmotte, who must have known, had declared that the great event had taken place in Paris.
"How is he Miss Gailey's half-brother?" Hilda demanded half-way through the meal. "Why! Mrs. Gailey Sarah Gailey's mother, that is married a foreigner after her first husband died." "But Mr. Cannon isn't a foreigner?" "He's half a foreigner. Look at his eyes. Surely you knew all about that, child!... No, it was before your time." Hilda then learnt that Mrs.
Altogether, the improvement is equally honourable to the genius of the architect, and the taste of the illustrious proprietor of the mansion; for no foreigner can gainsay that Apsley House has the befitting splendour of a ducal, nay even of a royal palace.
I blamed myself for not writing you sooner than I did on the event which I had long been anxious to see realized; but I took it for granted that you had long before received the official announcement from the foreign secretary that you were, at the last anniversary of the Royal Society, the recipient of the highest honor which our body can bestow, whether on a foreigner or a native. . .On going to the Royal Society to-day I found that the President and Secretaries were much surprised that you had never answered the official letter sent to you on the 1st or 2nd December by the Foreign Secretary, Professor Muller, of Cambridge.
Literature of all kinds was silent under the tyrant's gloomy frown, and the weak style of this last book seems to reflect the depressed mind of its author. The birth and parentage of Manilius are not known. That he was a foreigner is probable, both from the uncouthness of his style at the outset, and from the decided improvement in it that can be traced through succeeding books.
"Haven't you observed," went on the youthful foreigner, "that those who by temperament and circumstance are worst fitted to pronounce judgment are usually the first to judge? The judgments of Society are always childish, seeing that it's composed for the most part of individuals who have never smelt the fire.
It is to this effect: A few months previous to my visit to Seoul, a foreigner had visited the king soliciting orders for installations of telephones. The king, being much astounded, and pleased at the wonderful invention, immediately, at great expense, set about connecting by telephone the tomb of the queen dowager with the royal palace a distance of several miles!