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"That is just it," I said, quite low. I felt too mean, I could not pretend I loved him. I must tell the truth, and then, if he would not have me me Ambrosine de Calincourt Athelstan! why, then, vulgarly dramatic or no, I should have to jump into the river to make things easy for grandmamma. "What is 'just it'?" he asked. "I do not love you." His face fell.
He judged instinctively and passionately, but never vulgarly. At Venice, for a couple of days, he had half a fit of melancholy over the pretended discovery that he had missed his way, and that the only proper vestment of plastic conceptions was the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese.
By a stake in society is meant, agreeable to universal convention, a multiplication of those interests which occupy us in our daily concerns or what is vulgarly called property. This principle works by exciting us to do right through those heavy investments of our own which would inevitably suffer were we to do wrong. The proposition is now clear, nor can the premises readily be mistaken.
It was always rather quiet at Cocker's while the contingent from Ladle's and Thrupp's and all the other great places were at luncheon, or, as the young men used vulgarly to say, while the animals were feeding.
The two most prominent objects in the view were the wooded heights of Farringdon on the one hand, and those of Abingdon on the other. Proceeding along the old Roman road, still distinctly marked out, and running along the ridge of this beautiful chain of hills, they arrived at an immense Roman encampment, vulgarly called Uffingham Castle, occupying the crown of a hill.
"It is very possible that he may cure certain diseases better than I can; such, for instance, as epilepsy, vulgarly called the divine malady, although all maladies are equally divine, for they all come from the gods.
When the paper came out I had no hesitation in attributing this article, which I thought rather vulgarly overdone, to Drayton Deane, who in the old days had been something of a friend of Corvick's, yet had only within a few weeks made the acquaintance of his widow. I had had an early copy of the book, but Deane had evidently had an earlier.
Singular to relate, it was once much admired as an article of female dress! Balloons were also very generally constructed from it. A better kind of material, it appears, was subsequently found in the down surrounding the seed-vessels of a plant vulgarly called euphorbium, and at that time botanically termed milk-weed.
Yet now, sitting smoking and listening to those records of eastern rule and eastern battle, in the quiet lamp-light of the long room with its dark book-cases, faintly gleaming Chinese images, and dumpy pillars his native cheekiness faded into most unwonted humility. For he was increasingly conscious of being, to put it vulgarly "up against something pretty big."
We are seeking the same end and differ only about the means." The lawyer smiled, for the youth had allowed himself to wander away from the subject, and there where the former was going to entangle him he had already entangled himself. "That's exactly the quid, as is vulgarly said.
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