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But don't indulge me in my shop, if it bores you," Hilda added lightly, aware as she was that Miss Livingstone was never further from being bored. "Oh, please go on! If you only knew," her lifted eyebrows confessed the tedium of Calcutta small-talk. "But why do you say you are lightly esteemed? Surely the public is a touchstone and you hold the public in the hollow of your hand!" Hilda smiled.
From this point Bella and the captain of dragoons cantered off into a region of small-talk whither it is not necessary that we should follow them. They were interrupted by the entrance of Colonel Crusty and Miss Peppy. The former shook hands with the captain somewhat stiffly, and introduced him to Miss Peppy. "Dinner late as usual, Bella," said the colonel, taking out his watch.
The chain of brittle glass that bound the captive beside her grew stronger. A wife who could bewitch the hours away with such music as this would be no undesirable possession for a blasé man. He stooped over her as she arose from the piano at last. "Come out on the balcony," he said. "The night is lovely, and the good people yonder are altogether engrossed in their cards and their small-talk."
She was absorbed in digesting Rolfe's every word, and fixing his map in her mind, and filling in details to his outline; so small-talk stung her: she gave her companion very short answers, especially when she disparaged Mr. Rolfe. "You couldn't get in a word edgeways," said Mary Wells. "I went to hear wisdom, and not to chatter." "He doesn't think small beer of hisself, anyhow."
A frivolous round of gaiety, a few fine dresses and jewels, small-talk, society scandal, stale compliments you think such things would have suited HER? And would she have contented herself with a love like yours? Come! Come and see how well she has escaped you!" And I beckoned him towards the door. He hesitated. "Where would you take me?" he asked. "To the chapel. Zara's body lies there."
No one can have less right than I, or, indeed, less inclination to assume the proud title of "scientific historian": no one can care less about historical small-talk or be more at a loss to understand what precisely is meant by "historical science."
Let us not prolong the small-talk of the situation further, but introduce Miss Strange as speedily as possible to Jenny also and to the little study in 3 Zion Place. Here her eager examination of the shelves was one succession of cries of sympathetic delight. "Why, you have got all the books I ever want to read again!" she exclaimed. "What wonderful people you are!
Conversation succeeded, by galvanic jerks and spasmodic starts, a conversation that Lord Castleton contrived to tug so completely out of poor Sir Sedleys ordinary course of small and polished small-talk that that charming personage, accustomed, as he well deserved, to be Coryphxus at his own table, was completely silenced.
She had no desire to take any part in the conversation that might follow but she had her own reasons for waiting near enough to hear it. In the meanwhile, Mrs. Eyrecourt turned on her inexhaustible flow of small-talk with her customary facility. No distinction of persons troubled her; no convictions of any sort stood in her way. "Delighted to make your acquaintance, Father Benwell.
Perhaps her demeanor was stiller, her laconism curter, her distaste to uninteresting companionship and current small-talk more profound, than usual; but no one seemed to see the deeper tinge of her ordinary color, and she passed muster, for her creditably.
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