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Wharton laid down the letter, making a wry mouth over some of its phrases. "'Put us both wrong with honour and conscience. 'One more reason for despair of life' 'All was over for me at Mellor' dear! dear! how women like the big words the emphatic pose. All those little odds and ends of charities that absurd straw-plaiting scheme!
While Amber watched he held his pose, a living menace like some fantastic statue bulking black against the grim red dawn. Like many a wiser and a better man, Amber was able upon occasion to change his mind without entertaining serious misgivings as to his stability of purpose. Therefore, on second thought, he elected to journey India-wards via the Suez Canal rather than by the western route.
Now Laura had understood that Uncle Tom he needed but a pair of gold earrings to pose as the model for a Spanish Grandee that Uncle Tom WAS odd, in this way: he sometimes took more to drink than was good for him; but she had never suspected him of being "dreadful", or a byword in Wantabadgery.
I am not an impostor, nor do I desire to pose as the goddess of a new creed. But you, Irving Baldur, are a man among men who will appreciate what I may show you. You love, you understand, perfumes. You have even wished for a new art don't forget that there are others in the world to whom the seven arts have become a thrice-told tale, to whom the arts have become too useful.
"They're excellent likenesses," she went on indifferently. "That's a good composition. I don't care so much for this one. That's a poor pose." She had come now to the bottom of the pile. This last print was one of those spirited profiles by which Muller, master-photographer, so illuminates character. "Oh, that's a wonder," cried Eleanor. "Such a profile!"
It may change its pose from time to time, or its drapery, but the setting is to be always the same, and the people who take their turns in seeing it are to be explicitly reassured, one after another, that there's nothing in it, you know. The fun will be in seeing how each one takes it, after they know what it really is." "Then you're going to give us a study of temperaments." "Yes," she assented.
At this unforeseen circumstance Mrs Verloc abandoned her pose of idleness and irresponsibility. With a sudden snatch at her skirts and a faint shriek she ran to the door, as if the trickle had been the first sign of a destroying flood.
He was quick enough to fathom my distaste, but he clasped my hand tighter and, bending slightly so that he could look straight into my eyes he said, lazily smiling: "You are the most charming prevaricator I know. You come pretty near to hating me, little lady. But you won't dislike me long. I'll make a bet with myself on that." "Hold that pose just a minute. Don't move. It's simply perfect."
No. 4 was now selected, in the person of a big burly man; and I could not help thinking, as she manipulated him, what a capital pose it would have been for Hercules and Omphale. I shall be glad if they will refrain." I was quite innocent of exercising conscious control, and did not quite know what the phrase meant.
There was no touch of carefully considered eccentricity in hair or costume, no pose of self-conscious Bohemianism about him. His face, with its clear brow, firmly moulded chin, and brown moustache, was that of a man who understood himself as well as music.
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