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Never had they promenaded so proudly to martial music or waltzed so perspiringly with the fashion-plate officers whom they adored. The children were paragons of diligence and promise. In their school books and college text books everything German was lauded in the superlative; everything foreign was decried as inferior, undesirable.
If the youth of America ever wish to prove that they are of a distinct race from the sable sons of Africa, their only chance is to become paragons of perfection, and give up all their wicked ways. "Oh!" exclaimed Ailie, half amused, half frightened, as Glynn lifted her out of the boat; "oh! how funny! Don't they look so very like as if they were all painted black?"
The profitable ship will carry a large load through all the hazards of the weather, and, when at rest, will stand up in dock and shift from berth to berth without ballast. There is a point of perfection in a ship as a worker when she is spoken of as being able to SAIL without ballast. I have never met that sort of paragon myself, but I have seen these paragons advertised amongst ships for sale.
Finally my accusers, in spite of their being paragons of audacity and monsters of shamelessness, did not dare to read out Crassus' evidence in full or to build anything upon it; for they saw that at the mention of his name you smelt a rat.
The doctor smiled coldly. Mivart added, "If you had come an hour sooner, you might have seen Mademoiselle Rose; she was in the town." "Mademoiselle Rose? who is that?" "Why, Madame Aubertin's sister." At this Dr. Aubertin looked first very puzzled, then very grave. "Hum!" said he, after a little reflection, "where do these paragons live?"
"Imagine there is an Elizabethan spittoon in the middle of the table," she said, "and keep on firmly spitting into it. I want you when there's any pause to spit about two things, one, how dreadfully unhappy both Jacob and Jane will be without their paragons, the other, how pleasant is conversation and companionship. I shall be chaffing you, mind, all the time and saying you must get married.
"It's when servants have been with you for years that they become a really serious nuisance. The 'here to-day and gone to-morrow' sort don't matter you've simply got to replace them; it's the stayers and the paragons that are the real worry." "But if they give satisfaction " "That doesn't prevent them from giving trouble.
"Well, I guess she's as good as any you'd be likely to get," Mrs. Bell admitted, "and we mustn't expect paragons. If this can't be done by an average bunch of working women the world over, it can't be done that's all!" "It can be done," said the girl, calmly. "It will be done. You see." "Mr. Thaddler says you could run any kind of a business you set your hand to," her mother went on.
If they all were to pray together, the united petitions of three such paragons of piety would be so efficacious as to force God to fulfil them, and He would be induced to bring the Messiah before his time. Then Rabbi Judah wanted to know whether there were any among the pious on earth whose prayer possessed equal efficacy.
I know that if any one said to him, 'Give up your castle and eat black bread, give up your lands and become a soldier, and then there will be no more misery in the world, the human race as you call it will be saved, his real self would answer, 'Thanks, I am lord of my lands, and I am not yet tired of my castle. Oh! I know them so well, these sham paragons. How different with Edmee!
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