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Besides, so strongly am I interested in Miss Davies's fate and welfare in the serious business of life, amid its chances and changes, that to make her the subject of a silly ballad is downright mockery of these ardent feelings; 'tis like an impertinent jest to a dying friend. Gracious Heaven! why this disparity between our wishes and our powers?
My long and dear friendship with your brother makes me feel peculiarly anxious on any point relative to his niece; and, indeed, my dear William, overrating, perhaps, my knowledge of the world and my influence in society, but not my affection for him, besought me to assume the liberty of esteeming myself a friend, nay, even a relation of yours and Miss Brandon's; so that I trust you do not consider my caution impertinent."
I have not much reason to like my mother-in-law, but I shall always be grateful to her for the way she cut the Gordian knot of my difficulties. "Young man, you are impertinent and intoxicated," she said haughtily. "Please step aside." And taking me firmly by the arm my mother-in-law walked steadily with me toward the door of the women's rest room.
They had abundant fruits, shells, corals, curios. They flashed them in the light of their torches; they baited us to bargain with them. It was a Venetian fete with a vengeance; for the hawkers were sometimes more impertinent than polite. It was a feast of lanterns, and not without the accompaniment of guitars and castanets, and rich, soft voices. After that we were eager for the end of it all.
'Anne, I declare cried Rupert. 'And, Mamma, this dreadful doggerel, proceeded Anne, 'proposed to send Fido's heart to this Mr. Hollis, and so put him in raptures with a gift from Miss Hazleby, and fill his mind with visions of a surrogate, and a wedding tour to Harrogate. Now was it not the most impertinent ungentlemanlike thing you ever heard of?
Then your eyes are good and your complexion lacks the freckles you ought to have. Your nose isn't Grecian, but it'll do we'll call it retroussé, for that sounds nicer than pug. And your mouth well, it's not exactly a rosebud one, but it doesn't mar the general landscape like some mouths do. Altogether, you're real good-looking, even if you are my sister." "Philip Reist, you're impertinent!
She has, in fact, impertinent little thing, already asked me when I am going. 'Do you allude to Hollyhock? 'Now, George, is it wise is it sensible to call those children after the flowers of the garden and the field? I assure you your manner of bringing up your family makes me sick yes, sick! 'Oh, don't trouble about us, said Lennox. 'We get on uncommonly well. They are my children, you know.
And the covenant itself was found to be no warmed and cloistered retreat, secure from the rude impact and impertinent gaze of the world. Quite the contrary! To enter the covenant was to renounce all private spiritual possessions, to give one's intimate convictions into the keeping of others, to subscribe to a very communism of the emotional life.
'Fine thing, said the old gentleman, 'education a great thing: a very great thing! I never had any. I admire it the more in others. A very fine thing. Yes, yes. Tell me more of your history. Let me hear it all. No impertinent curiosity no, no, no.
The result was that the magazine got more advertising from the manufacturers than it could possibly handle. It is very gratifying to know that this man succeeded extraordinarily as an advertiser, for not once during his long career did he ever try to "put one over" on the public or on anybody else. No advertisement should be impertinent or importunate.
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