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And this is at least partly due to the strange drab shapelessness of his style, which never takes on any brilliant colour, or quaint individual form. Yet it is very questionable whether any other style would have suited the method so well, or would even have suited it at all.
We never can tell the person quite suited to us; it strikes us in a flash." "That they are not suited to us? Oh, no; that comes by degrees." "Yes, but the accumulation of evidence, or sentience, if you like, is combustible; we don't command the spark; it may be late in falling. And you argue in her favour. Consider her as a generous and impulsive girl, outwearied at last." "By what?"
He will have besides this, action, not tragic, nor suited to the stage, but he will move his body in a moderate degree, trusting a great deal to his countenance; not in such a way as people call making faces but in a manner sufficient to show in a gentlemanlike manner in what sense he means what he is saying to be understood.
When he came to me and wanted a gun, I handed him two or three, so that he might choose one that suited him, and by the way he handled them I could see that most likely he'd never handled one before, and so I set him up all right. He's got a good gun, and all the cartridges he'll be likely to want; and the cartridges are all like this.
"Very," said I, with a smile, "and extremely well filled." "Ah, Sir," answered my neighbour, "Cheltenham is not as it used to be some fifteen years ago. "Indeed!" quoth I, with an air of surprise suited to the information I received, "but the society is very good still, is it not?" "Oh, very genteel," replied the man; "but not so dashing as it used to be." "Pray," asked I, glancing at Messrs.
"What became of Harrington, who wanted every d Yankee killed like cats bayoneted without any quarter being shown, etc.?" "He went to Mexico after the war closed; could not live under 'Yankee' rule. He there tried to assist in establishing an empire. Was regarded by some of the Imperialists as suited to become a Duke. But things are changing with the seasons now.
Can you reproach me with a single blunder?" "Not one. Monsieur Paganel," said Mary Grant. "You are now the most perfect of men." "Too perfect," added Lady Helena, laughing; "your blunders suited you admirably." "Didn't they, Madam? If I have no faults now, I shall soon get like everybody else. I hope then I shall make some outrageous mistake before long, which will give you a good laugh.
Her hands became cold and trembled. She did not want him. Beside her the tea table was drawn up. Its equipment seemed to him very dainty. It was a picture he liked, this pretty woman by the fire, with the environment suited to her charms. Through the wall came faintly the jolly sound of their children's voices.
The brutality with which Heppner treated the dying woman was revolting to him, and his sympathy with the injured wife gradually inspired him with a positive hatred for the sergeant-major. The sergeant-major laughed at Heimert. "The Prince with the Nose" he called him, and sneered at his wife about this "lover." "You two would have suited each other well!" he jeered.
She gained her point; the Viscount wondered how he could ever be so blind as to prefer Caroline to her, and her words added weight to his resolution, to annoy the former by devoted attentions to Miss Grahame, and, if it suited his interests, make the latter his wife.
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