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Or was she, with a nicer feeling for proportion, reflecting that, had not people been so kind, she might have had to walk behind a funeral provided by the parish?
The boy withdrew, closing the door silently behind him. "We're going to have lunch here!" Janet exclaimed. "Why not? I thought it would be nicer than a public dining-room, and when I got up this morning and saw what the weather was I telephoned." He placed two chairs before the fire, which had begun to blaze. "Isn't it cosy?" he said, taking her hands and pulling her toward him.
"It's nice of you to say so, and to take it as you did nicer than I can express. I am afraid I shall never learn to appreciate that there may be other points of view toward life than my own. And I should have realized and sympathized with the difficulties of your position, and that you were doing the best under the circumstances." "No," he exclaimed, "don't say that!
But you'll get on all right. I really think Rosy is going to be nicer, now you've come, Bee." "I'm so glad," said Bee. "But I'm sorry you're going away, Colin. In three months you'll have forgotten how to tease, won't you?" she said again, smiling. "I'm not so sure of that," he answered laughingly.
"It's very much nicer," said Vane with a laugh, "to kill even a Boche in imagination than in reality. . . . Though I've seen many men," he added thoughtfully, "go blood mad." "Do you remember that description of Kipling's," said Sir James, "of the scrap between the Black Tyrone and the Pathans? Mulvaney was sick, and Ortheris cursed, and Learoyd sang hymns wasn't it?"
"I do hope he'll stay all summer," she said one morning, when speaking of him to her mother. "I think it's a heap nicer without him, though dull enough at the best. I wish we could go somewhere, some watering place I mean. There's the Tifftons, just returned from New York, and I don't much believe they can afford it more than we, for I heard their place was mortgaged, or something.
Then why should they all sympathize with Claudine about the loss of a lover?" "Perhaps lovers are nicer than husbands." "Pretty much all alike. I have known a few good husbands. Your grandfather was one, your father another. But you have said nothing about Fred. Did he look handsome? Did he make a sensation? Was he a cousin to be proud of?" "Indeed, Granny, Fred was the whole party.
She says she used to spend whole days there browsing around she really said that and poking under the counters and behind things for what she wanted. Just fancy! I think a nice polite clerk that comes up to you with a pleasant smile and says, 'What can I do for you, Madam? is much nicer, don't you? "I've saved the worst of my news for the last.
The early riser and walker, unless long habituated and naturally vigorous, returns from his exercise draggled, faint, and exhausted, to begin the digestive labors of the day, and take his food with hunger rather than appetite. Abstinence has blunted the nicer perceptions of taste, and the jaded organs lose the power not only of discriminating flavors, but of knowing when to cry, "Enough!"
But they're much nicer than flesh-and-blood children, for they have no bad traits whatever, and they're so amazingly intelligent."
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