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The very cleverness of the imitation of the precious stone betrays how deep a sense of the beauty of the real gem you had, how expert you were in the trade of diamond cutter. Into the shaping of your bad works of art there went a temperament, a playfulness, a fecundity, a capriciousness, a genius that many better artists have not possessed.
All the laughter and playfulness of the past came back again, and the one dream of worthy Madame Desvignes, amid her pride at being a grandmamma, was of completing her life-work, hitherto so prudently carried on, by marrying off Marthe in her turn. As a matter of fact it had seemed likely that there might be three instead of two weddings at Chantebled that spring.
He made another mistake when he failed to discern the meaning of certain smiles which flitted over Louise's lips from time to time; and instead of keeping himself to himself, he indulged in the playfulness of the young rat emerging from his hole for the first time.
Talk of knouting indeed! which we did at the beginning of this paper in the mere playfulness of our hearts and which the great master of the knout, Christopher, who visited men's trespasses like the Eumenides, never resorted to but in love for some great idea which had been outraged; why, this man knouted his way through life, from bloody youth up to truculent old age.
And men shall say, when they look on your portrait, in ages to come: No wonder he was such a painter when he had such a woman to paint." He spoke the words with a certain tone of dignified playfulness. "When shall the woman sit to you again, painter?" said Florimel sole reply to his rhapsody. The painter thought a little. Then he said: "I don't like that tire woman of yours.
Lydia arched her dark eyebrows inquiringly. She was always sensitively responsive, and now had forgotten, like a sweet-tempered child, her momentary pique. He smiled suddenly, moved, as people often were, to an apparently irrelevant tenderness for her. His voice softened into a playfulness like that of a person speaking to an imaginative little girl.
"How will I harm myself?" she persisted. "Well, one day, you will want a a husband. With all that money it is only right and proper you should marry " "No, Mr. Lancelot, I don't want a husband. I don't want to marry. I should never want to go away from you." There was another painful silence. He sought refuge in a brusque playfulness. "I see you understand I'm not going to marry you." "Yessir."
To Stella, in the midst of his political warfare, he could write with the playfulness that nursemaids use for children, and most men keep for their kittens or puppies.
"Only twenty men out of our hundred million could read that! Code of our most exclusive circle. The silly wretch has been raiding country banks in the middle west and carried his playfulness too far. He's in jail now but not at all worried merely bored.
And the healthy change and playfulness of this just does in the stone-work what it does on the tree boughs, and is a perpetual refreshment and invigoration; so that, however long you gaze at this simple ornament and none can be simpler, a village mason could carve it all round the window in a few hours you are never weary of it, it seems always new.
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