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Cook was frigid, Peggy desperate, but difficulty had the effect of stimulating her faculties, and she approached the offended dignitary in a manner at once so ingenious and so beguiling that her anger melted away like snow before the sun. "Emergency," quoth Miss Peggy grandiloquently, smiling into the sullen face "emergency is the test of genius!
"To the long-lost nephew, Mr. William C. Dagget. To the bed of roses. And to the eminent lawyer, Theobald D. Snark, Esq., who has mended a poor fortune with a better brain. Gentlemen," he concluded grandiloquently, slowly surveying the little room as if it were an overcrowded Colosseum "gentlemen, with your permission, together with that of the immortal Mr.
"Ah, my Betty, we've deserved well of the state, you and I. We've reared nine healthy children, and the boys shall serve their king; the girls shall cook and sew and in their turn breed healthy children." He turned to Sally, and to comfort her for the anti-climax of the contrast added grandiloquently: "They also serve who only stand and wait."
"It will be a lesson to me for life not to interfere with the business of others, and take the bread out of the mouths of professionals by amateur interference," she concluded grandiloquently, and Rob smiled in his grave, kindly fashion.
Sam, balancing himself on the narrow, projecting ledge which the chart in the passenger-office had grandiloquently described as a lounge, began to feel the depression which marks the second phase. He almost wished now that he had not been so energetic in having his room changed in order to enjoy the company of his cousin Eustace. It was going to be a tight fit.
I am not in the least sure that even Eve would quite approve." Mr. Bundercombe smiled the smile of a man of the world. "One can't tell one's womenkind everything!" he declared grandiloquently. I was a little puzzled. I felt convinced that Mr. Bundercombe was concealing something from me.
He was candid in his expression that Boyle would make a case against Agnes if he wanted it made, for there was enough to base an action upon and make a public showing. When it came to guarding that part of the people's heritage grandiloquently described as "the public domain," the Boyles were not always at the front, to be sure.
"I'd sooner have one full-grown oak standing in its pride alone," said young Gresham, rather grandiloquently, "than all the exotics in the world." "They'll come in due time," said the duke. "But the due time won't be in my days. And so they're going to cut down Chaldicotes Forest, are they, Mr. Sowerby?" "Well, I can't tell you that. They are going to disforest it.
One doesn't like to talk grandiloquently, but, alone with you, there is no harm in saying that I have a message for our time. We have reached a point in social and political evolution where all the advance of modern life seems to be imperilled by the growing preponderance of the multitude. Our need is of men who are born to guide and rule, and I feel myself one of these.
Said a friend of the present writer's to a waiter in a country hotel where one of these "lords" was staying for a few days: "I want a letter to catch to-night's post, but I'm afraid the mail has gone from the hotel. Could you send some one to the post-office with it?" "Oh yes, sir!" replied the waiter grandiloquently. "The servant of the Lord will take it!"
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