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"Shew me your room," said I. She took me there in her mother's company. "Here is something to make you a winter dress," said I, skewing her the silk. "Is this from the marchioness?" "No, it is from me." "But where are the three dresses she said she would give me?" "You know very well on what conditions you were to have them, so let us say no more about it."
To this predilection has been attributed his alleged cruelty to the stranger from Sorrento, who dared to emulate the fame of his idol; an extraordinary, though perhaps not incredible, mode of skewing a critic's regard for poetry. But Tasso, while he laments his severity, wonders at it in a man so well bred and so imbued with literature, and thinks it can only have originated in "orders."
After skewing myself at the two principal walks of Paris, amusing myself by the astonishment depicted on certain faces well known to me, I went and returned the ear-rings to my dear Manon, who gave an astonished but a happy cry when she saw me.
I had no difficulty in skewing myself a good guesser, because I always gave answers with a double meaning, one of the meanings being carefully arranged by me, so as not to be understood until after the event; in that manner, my cabalistic science, like the oracle of Delphi, could never be found in fault.
"Shew me your room," said I. She took me there in her mother's company. "Here is something to make you a winter dress," said I, skewing her the silk. "Is this from the marchioness?" "No, it is from me." "But where are the three dresses she said she would give me?" "You know very well on what conditions you were to have them, so let us say no more about it."
I had no difficulty in skewing myself a good guesser, because I always gave answers with a double meaning, one of the meanings being carefully arranged by me, so as not to be understood until after the event; in that manner, my cabalistic science, like the oracle of Delphi, could never be found in fault.
"Then I am angry with her for skewing too much, for I like to see the face and the general outlines of the form and to guess the rest." "But the imagination is often deceptive!" "Yes, but it is with the face that I always fall in love, and that never deceives me as far as it is concerned.
"I don't want to do that," said I, "as besides publicly disgracing her I should be skewing my own weakness, and proclaiming that I was not the master in my own house, and that I could not prevent her establishing herself with me." "I think so, too," said the wife, "and I am glad you gave way to her.
Slipping out of the big shirt once more, and borrowing Cis's mirror, he contrived, by skewing his head around, chinning first one shoulder, then the other, to get a meager look at his back. He appraised his spindling arms and legs. He thumped his flat chest. "Gee! Mister Perkins is dead right!" he admitted soberly. "I'm too skinny, and too thin through, and my complexion's too good."
"Not so, give me a little time to collect myself." "I tell you, go!" "Calm yourself, and don't be afraid of my skewing you any violence; that would suit your game too well." "My aunt shall pay dearly for this." "She will find me her friend. I won't touch you, so shew me a little more of your charms." "More of my charms?" "Yes; put yourself as you were when I came in." "Certainly not.
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