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"By force," said Mr. Penfield with engaging candour. "It desolates me to descend to rough-neck methods, but I am a larger, stronger man than you, Mr. "Sybarite," said the little man, flushing, "P. by the grace of God! Sybarite." "Delighted to make your acquaintance, Mr.
Puritan, paranoiac, sybarite, katatoniac, hardhead, dreamer, coward, desperado, beaten ones, striving ones, successful ones all flaunt their umbrellas in the rain, all unfurl their invisible umbrellas to the world. Let it rain, let it rain calamities and ecstasies tipped with fire and roaring with thunder nothing can disturb the terrible preoccupation of the plunge from youth to age.
The Sybarite, making easy way through a slight sea, with what wind there was not much on the port bow, rolled but slightly, and her deliberate and graceful fore-and-aft motion, as she swung from crest to crest of the endless head-on swells, caused the stars to stream above her mast-heads, a boundless river of broken light.
"My Gawd!" George despaired "he's off again on that hardy annual talkalogue of his!... Lis'n, P.S. " "Call me Perceval," P. Sybarite suggested pleasantly. "Wh-at!" "Let it be Perceval hereafter, George always. I grant you free permission." "But I thought you said " "So I did a few hours ago. Now I well, I rather like it.
And as the last of the guests save Marian Blessington and P. Sybarite edged out into the ante-rooms, a detachment of servants invaded the dancing-floor and bustled about setting the room to rights. A moment more, and the two were close upon the vanguard of departing guests. "You'll have a time finding your hat and coat," smiled the girl.
You see, Friend Employer was displaying a cultivated taste in vintage champagnes, but he'd been culpably negligent in not laying down a large stock for private consumption before the Great Drought set in. The Delorme found that out, then that his ancestral acres bordered on Long Island Sound, and finally that the Sybarite was loafing its head off.
There, in the midst of his blackened and sterile realms, rose the dismal Mount of Fire; while, on the other hand, winding through variegated plains, to which distance lent all its magic, glittered many a stream, by which Etruscan and Sybarite, Roman and Saracen and Norman, had, at intervals of ages, pitched the invading tent.
We started for this ranch seven miles further, soon after dark, and arrived before nine, after the most successful ascent of Mauna Loa ever made. Without being a Sybarite, I certainly do prefer a comfortable pulu bed to one of ridgy lava, and the fire which blazes on this broad hearth to the camp-fire on the frozen top of the volcano.
Instant action, inspired audacity, a little luck and the thing might possibly be accomplished. His chauffeur was crawling ignominiously out from beneath the touring car his countenance livid with grime and the pallor of fright. Meeting the eye of his employer, he grinned a sheepish grin. P. Sybarite seized him by the arm. "Are you hurt?" "Not ten cents' worth much less a thousand dollars!
We are told that one Sybarite, for instance, once ordered his slaves to prepare a couch for him of fresh rose leaves. When it was ready, he stretched himself out upon it and slept. In a short time he awoke with cries of great distress, saying that he could not sleep because a rose leaf was crumpled under him, and chafed his tender skin.
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