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But it hurts more, it hurts more when they don't blame! Thirty copecks yes! And maybe she needs them now, eh? What do you think, my dear sir? For now she's got to keep up her appearance. It costs money, that smartness, that special smartness, you know? Do you understand?
The line he knew, was always drawn at those in any category who were actually found out, for the value of these ladies and these gentlemen was not their claim to pity nothing so sentimental but their "smartness," clothes, jokes, racing tips, their "bridge parties," and their motors.
Say: 'To the ordinary class of readers this exquisite work may appear less brilliant than the flippant smartness of' any other author you like to name; 'but to the well educated and intelligent every line is pregnant with, etc. By the way, when we come by and by to review the exhibition at Burlington House, there is one painter whom we must try our best to crush.
Coming into the Touraine apartment Trudy found Gaylord showing old prints to some woman customers and advising as to the smartness of having them framed and used in sun parlours or any intriguing little nook. Trudy was de trop she was prettier than the prospective customers, but in their eyes she had only a Winter-Garden personality and Gay frowned his welcome.
After thet he could hev et every boot in ther outfit, an' thar wouldn't hev been a kick." "What became of him?" asked Kit. "Oh, he went back home with Ping an' raised a large family, an' they wuz talkin' o' runnin' him fer ther legislature an account o' his whiskers an' his smartness." "He was a smart goat, wasn't he?" said Dick. "You bet.
The great woman who wrote under the pen-name of George Eliot was a humorist, too. She had a rich, deep humor of her own, and a wit that crystallized into sayings which are not epigrams only because their wisdom strikes more than their smartness. But humor was not, as with Thackeray and Dickens, her point of view.
Hither and thither she was borne, a creature bereft of volition. Order followed order like the rattle of quick-fire, and was obeyed with something more than the Wolverine's customary smartness. From the bridge Captain Parkinson himself directed his ship. His face was placid: his bearing steady and confident. This in itself was sufficient earnest that the cruiser was in ticklish case.
He suffered, I fancy, from a kind of mental greyness; he was all subtle tones; the laughter of girls jarred upon him; foolish smartness or amiable foolishness got on his nerves; he detested, with equal sincerity, bright dressing, artistic dabbling, piety, and the glow of health.
Yet though to Vanderbank he couldn't look young he came near strikingly and amusingly looking new: this after a minute appeared mainly perhaps indeed in the perfection of his evening dress and the special smartness of the sleeveless overcoat he had evidently had made to wear with it and might even actually be wearing for the first time. He had talked to Vanderbank at Mrs.
Now and again he is content with a mere smartness, as when he says: 'There are some thoroughly excellent people who cannot get rid of their ennui except at the expense of society. But such a mood is not common.
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