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Well, old boy, how do you feel in prospect of your exam.?" "Oh, all right," said Jack, complacently. "I suppose I ought to feel in mortal terror and nervousness and despondency. I believe that's what's expected of a fellow before an exam. If so, I'm unorthodox. Perhaps it's a sign I shall be plucked." "I'm not afraid of that," said I. "Well, I have a notion I may pull through."
Will you, like the rest of this wise world, let a man's spirit rot asleep into the pit, if he will only lie quiet and not disturb your smooth respectabilities; but if he dares, in waking, to yawn in an unorthodox manner, knock him on the head at once, and "break the bruised reed," and "quench the smoking flax"? And yet you churchgoers have "renounced the world"!
"This fascinating heroine must have caused a great deal of real sorrow, or at least she would have caused it, were it not that her creator had considerably removed all relatives, except a devoted couple of unorthodox parents, who are charmed at her decision to scandalize society, and wonder why she doesn't do it sooner. Parents like that don't grow on every bush." Mrs.
Locke, the honour of this age and the instructor of the future'.... 'That great philosopher'.... 'It was Mr. 'His philosophy, it has been said, 'smells of the earth, earthy. 'It is curious, writes Mr. To all the forms of the Beautiful he seems to have been almost insensible. The same want in the followers of Locke's system, both orthodox and unorthodox, is painfully conspicuous.
Having now probably said enough in these confessions to convince every non-spiritualist that I am insane, because I believed the evidence of my senses, and even ventured to look into matters so unorthodox and unscientific as mesmerism and spiritualism, I go on to "make a clean breast," and set myself wrong with the other moiety of my readers.
Now there was something peculiarly unorthodox, in the archdeacon's estimation, in the idea of a round table. He had always been accustomed to a goodly board of decent length, comfortably elongating itself according to the number of the guests, nearly black with perpetual rubbing, and as bright as a mirror.
'Barely sixteen; you may call it a square. 'It would do very well for a round table, suggested the ex-warden. Now there was something peculiarly unorthodox in the archdeacon's estimation in the idea of a round table.
One goes to church for convention's sake because it's respectable; but suppose you were to say to a clergyman that if your soul is 'immortal' it follows in reason that it must always have existed and always will exist, he would declare you to be 'unorthodox. That's where all the puzzle and contradiction comes in so that I don't believe in the soul at all." "Are you sure you do not?"
He was very unorthodox, which frightened them; and his freakish humour excited their disapproval. "How can you have known a hundred and forty-seven of him?" asked Philip seriously. "I've met him in the Latin Quarter in Paris, and I've met him in pensions in Berlin and Munich. He lives in small hotels in Perugia and Assisi.
"And it does look like it," declares Marcia, who is delighted to ferret out unorthodox loves. "I mean to watch them." "Do no such thing," he commands. "Eugene will not be very hard hit, and your brother is quite capable of taking care of his wife. They are like two children, but it is a pity Eugene had not been wiser. If your brother had only waited until Eugene had met Miss St. Vincent.