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Give him credit for five hundred more," he added and the clerk showed Rimrock out. There are certain formalities that the richest must observe before they can borrow half a million and it was nearly noon before Rimrock was free and on his way to the hotel. He was just leaping out of his taxicab when he saw Mrs. Hardesty reeling towards him.
The ceremony was brief enough; 'Have you anything to say? 'Don't interrupt his Worship; prisoner! 'Give over talking! 'A month's hard labour. This is about all I heard, or at any rate realised, until a vigorous push landed me into the presence of the officer who booked the sentence, and then off I went to gaol. I need not linger over the formalities of the reception.
There were a few formalities gone through in the matter of tasting of dishes served to the royal children, but they sat round the table without ceremony; and when the chaplain had pronounced a blessing, which was listened to reverently by the young people, who were all very devout and responsive to religious influences, the unconstrained chatter began again almost at once, and the Welsh lads lost all sense of strangeness as they sat at the table of the king's children.
This thought would never have come if Mrs. Gurrage had not passed into another sphere of mental living. I would not have wounded her for the world. I settled all the details in my mind, on my voyage home, and no sooner got to London than I executed them. The law is a slow and delaying business, and even a deed of gift requires endless formalities to go through. Amelia was overcome.
At a former dinner I remember seeing a gentleman in small-clothes, with a dress-sword; but all formalities of the kind are passing away. The Mayor's dinners, too, will no doubt be extinct before many years go by. I drove home from the Woodside Ferry in a cab with Bishop Burke and two other gentlemen. The Bishop is nearly seven feet high.
Equally long formalities preceded his departure, and our Tano had in this manner, between reception, residence, and leave-taking, spent more than a year at the Rito de los Frijoles. During that time he had acquired a knowledge of the Queres language, and spoke it therefore not fluently, but still intelligibly.
What a spectacle! On the one hand, the infinitely ramified division of society into the most varied races, which confront each other with small antipathies, bad consciences, and brutal mediocrity, and precisely because of the ambiguous and suspicious positions which they occupy towards each other, such positions being devoid of all real distinctions although coupled with various formalities, are treated by their lords as existences on sufferance.
Doubt had come into her eyes; she was looking half fearfully at him, and he saw that she half suspected him of being a desperado, intent on doing harm. He grinned, moved to mirth. She was reassured; that smile had done it. She returned it, a little ruefully. And she felt that, in view of the circumstances, she might dispense with formalities and get right down to business.
But granting this, would he be equally able to hide his feelings when he was obliged to submit to the humiliating formalities that awaited him formalities which in certain cases can, and must, be pushed even to the verge of insult and outrage? No; Lecoq could not believe that this would be possible.
MY DEAR SIR or let me at once break through the formalities of a first acquaintance, and say, dear Smith; Dear Smith, I am delighted to have been at last introduced to a real member of the theatrical profession a bonâ fide flesh and blood, silk-stocking'd and tinsel-rapier'd "pride of Astley's stage."
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