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Paiere, the adopted son of Ori, who was a boy when the Casco was at Tautira, claimed a vivid remembrance of many incidents. He especially had been impressed by the numbers of corks that flew in the house and on the green; and when I invited him to a bottle of champagne, he made hissing sounds and a plop to indicate that Rui had a penchant for that kind of wine.
"Because, forsooth, it is no low-browed, swarthy Greek. I have a penchant for high, broad, expansive foreheads, which are antagonistic to all the ancient models of beauty. Low foreheads characterize the antique; but who can fancy 'violet-crowned, immortal Sappho, "'With that gloriole Of ebon hair, on calmed brows, other than I have drawn her!" She held up the paper, and smiled triumphantly.
It was hard on him that the boy's plan for absence should pile up on Sally Madeira's plan, but he could understand that it would be harder on the boy to stay in the Tigmores with the inspiration of the Tigmores hushed and gone. "Not thinking of going to Italy yet, Piney?" It had come to be an accepted joke with them, that penchant of Piney's for Italy.
There was only added, she was sorry, but from what penchant she had not considered, that she had been prevented telling me her story, that she still owed it to me; and if my route should ever lay through Brussels, and I had not by then forgot the name of Madame de L-, that Madame de L- would be glad to discharge her obligation.
Falkirk, don't you think Dane had a great penchant for one of Mrs. Powder's beautiful daughters before he went abroad? 'I am not in the confidence of either party, madam, replied Mr. Falkirk. 'If he had he would have taken her with him, said another of the party. 'O that don't follow, you know. Maybe her mother thought she was too young or he, perhaps. She is a beautiful girl.
Her eyes were opened, in short; and the ordinary effect of this sort of awakening from an unworthy penchant for attachment it could not be called ensued: the temporary liking changed into aversion, and the attentions that had flattered her before became hateful.
This observation does not refer, we believe, to men with an innocent penchant for play, or the turf, or for buying pictures, or for collecting china, or for driving coaches and four, all of which tastes proclaim themselves sooner or later, but means that the most knowing, the most cautious, and the most careful, are all to be come over, somehow or another.
Yet it is probable, that had I been launched about this time into some agreeable career, that of arms, for example, for which, being the son of a soldier, I had, as was natural, a sort of penchant, I might have thought nothing more of the acquisition of tongues of any kind; but, having nothing to do, I followed the only course suited to my genius which appeared open to me.
Moreover Saltus's style may be said to possess American characteristics. It is dashing and rapid, and as clear as the water in Southern seas. The man has a penchant for short and nervous sentences, but they are never jerky. They explode like so many firecrackers and remind one of the great national holiday!... Nevertheless Edgar Saltus should have been born in France.
A man who was in the habit of cleaning my boots, had a most incorrigible propensity for garrulity, and as I like in a foreign country to obtain some insight into the ideas and feelings of all classes, I did not care to check the poor fellow in the indulgence of his favourite penchant, particularly as his remarks were always proffered with a tone of the most profound respect for my august person.
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