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Somebody tapped Soames on the back, and spoke to him; and in the exchange of those platitudes over his shoulder, he missed her answer, and took a resolution. "We're just going in," he said to Bosinney; "you'd better come back to dinner with us."
"The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are 'not for an age, but for all time," says Bernard Shaw, "has his reward in being unreadable in all ages; whilst Plato and Aristophanes trying to knock some sense into the Athens of their day, Shakespeare peopling that same Athens with Elizabethan mechanics and Warwickshire hunts, Ibsen photographing the local doctors and vestrymen of a Norwegian parish, Carpaccio painting the life of St.
Constantine had gone into town, to a club of cocaine-eaters, to drug himself, utter vulgar platitudes, and kiss the hands of loose women. Leontyevna, the Cyclop maid from the Exchange, lay down on a bench in the kitchen to rest from the day's work, said her prayers, and fell into a sound sleep. The general stood on the door-steps.
It was there, where the broken steps and sidetrack met, that the first men came hurrying to meet us and blocked our way four of them, active as goats, and looking fierce enough to scare away twice their number. But they recognized Ayisha, and stood aside at once to let us pass, showing her considerable gruff respect and asking a string of questions, which she countered with platitudes.
Not that I ever saw him rough or uncourteous with the most exasperating fool that ever rubbed a man's nervous system the wrong way; but there was a quiet, lurking smile which, supported by very few words, used to seem to have the singular property of making the utterers of platitudes and the mistakers of non-sequiturs for sequiturs, uncomfortably aware of the nature of their words within a very few minutes after they had uttered them.
His gray eyes smiled as they met hers, and his manners were charming; but Betty, accustomed to grasp the salient points of character in a first interview, fancied that he could be overbearing and truculent. "Are they going to talk politics to-night?" she asked, when the platitudes had run their course. "I hope not. I've had enough of politics, all day."
Hester had never been late before, but she felt that this was not the moment to remind her brother of that fact. "I beg pardon," she said, humbly. "I fell asleep." "You fell asleep!" said Mr. Gresley, who had been wrestling all the morning with platitudes on "Thy will be done." "All I can say, Hester, is that it is unfortunate you have no occupation.
"Do you really think that if I were to go he Arabian " "He'd follow you by the next boat." "I'm sure he wouldn't." "You're not half so vain as I thought you were." "When we are alone he never attempts to make love to me. We talk platitudes. I know him no better than I did before." "He's a wary bird. But the dawn must come and with it his crow."
Emmie's hoarse laugh grated on his ears; he was overwrought and wanted to shout, to shriek, to give some vent to his feelings. But he seemed chained to the long bench, and his tongue was tied so that he could only mouth out silly platitudes about the weather and the Fifteen's chances. On his way back to the studies he felt an arm laid in his.
For the real man, as he reflected, was not the man who sat heavily self-complacent in a library chair, exuding platitudes and pride of patronage; but the man who hung upon the wall forever ridiculous while paint and canvas should last. Thus would he go down to posterity!
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