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Well, she was a handsome daredevil little minx. It amused him to make love to her, and in spite of his parsonical cousin, he should continue to do so. And that the proceeding annoyed Richard Meynell made it not less, but more, enticing. Parsons, cousins or no, must be kept in their place. Hester ran home, a new laugh on her lip, and a new red on her cheek.
She nodded and went off to her game, and informing Mr. Petherbridge that Lady Bruce was a platitudinous old tabby, flirted with him up to the nice limits of his parsonical dignity. But Marmaduke did not mind. "Games are childish and somewhat barbaric. Don't you think so, Lady Bruce?" "Most young people seem fond of them," replied the lady. "Exercise keeps them in health."
"What Seer?" the little parson inquired, with parsonical curiosity. I noticed the man with the overhanging eyebrows give a queer sort of start. Charles's glance was fixed upon me. I hardly knew what to answer. "Oh, a man who was at Nice with us last year," I stammered out, trying hard to look unconcerned. "A fellow they talked about, that's all." And I turned the subject.
He was penitent before his uncle, admitting, first, that the men were not in want of an example of the contempt of death, and secondly, that he doubted whether it was contempt of death on his part so much as pride a hatred of being seen running. 'I don't like the fellow to be drawing it so fine, said Everard. It sounded to him a trifle parsonical.
So long has the narrow, parsonical, cynical contempt for the understanding of the lower classes prevailed through our fault a reversal to blind worship of the masses, of the immature and the unsuccessful, is not inexcusable. We are here to love mankind all mankind, the outcast as well as the weak every man and all men. But the masses are not quite the same thing as mankind.
'I canvass poor men accustomed to be paid for their votes, and who get nothing from me but what the baron would call a parsonical exhortation. I'm in the thick of the most spiritless crew in the kingdom. Our southern men will not compare with the men of the north. But still, even among these fellows, I see danger for the country if our commerce were to fail, if distress came on them.
He walked quickly, though he was tired and hot; tall, upright, and thin, in a grey parsonical suit, on whose black kerseymere vest a little gold cross dangled. Above his brother's house, whose sloping garden ran down to the railway line and river, a large room had been built out apart.
How did he behave in church this morning? 'You should have come to see, said Mrs. Waltham, mildly censuring her son's disregard of the means of grace. 'I like Mr. Wyvern, observed Adela, who was standing at the window looking out upon the dusking valley. 'Oh, you would like any man in parsonical livery, scoffed her brother.
He was penitent before his uncle, admitting, first, that the men were not in want of an example of the contempt of death, and secondly, that he doubted whether it was contempt of death on his part so much as pride a hatred of being seen running. 'I don't like the fellow to be drawing it so fine, said Everard. It sounded to him a trifle parsonical.
'I canvass poor men accustomed to be paid for their votes, and who get nothing from me but what the baron would call a parsonical exhortation. I'm in the thick of the most spiritless crew in the kingdom. Our southern men will not compare with the men of the north. But still, even among these fellows, I see danger for the country if our commerce were to fail, if distress came on them.
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