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A child's voice issued from this tiger's mouth. General Fabvier delivered from the tribune speeches learned by heart, graceful, flowery, full of allusions to the woods and country veritable idylls. In the tribune this Ajax became a Nemorin. He spoke in low tones like a diplomat, he smiled like a courtier. He was not averse to making himself agreeable to princes.
It was just the talk so profuse sometimes that she wondered what was left for their real meetings of the very happiest people. Their real meetings must have been constant, for half of it was appointments and allusions, all swimming in a sea of other allusions still, tangled in a complexity of questions that gave a wondrous image of their life.
"I trust, Master Bridgenorth," said the Lady Peveril, not fully comprehending the drift of his discourse, "that we shall, as your entertainers, carefully avoid all allusions or reproaches founded on past misunderstanding." "We would expect no less, madam, from your candour and courtesy," said Bridgenorth; "but I perceive you do not fully understand me.
Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topick of merriment or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated.
"Won't you accept it, Vine?" he said, obviously disconcerted but pretending not to understand her allusions. "Not unless you tell me honestly how you got it, sir," she replied, decisively. "O, picked it up somewhere; don't remember now," he evasively answered. "That, now, is a thumper, I know," she rejoined, with a pretty toss of the head. "But you don't put me off so.
I see that some remarks by the Rev. R. J. Campbell, dealing with social conditions in America, are reported in the press. They include some observations about Sinn Fein in which, as in most of Mr. Campbell's allusions to Ireland, it is not difficult to detect his dismal origin, or the acrid smell of the smoke of Belfast.
It was impossible for Lucy Hardinge to write to one she loved, and not exhibit the truth and nature of her feelings. These appeared in every paragraph in which it was proper to make any allusions of the sort. But the letters had other charms. It was apparent, throughout, that the writer was ignorant that she wrote to an invalid, though she could not but know that she wrote to a recluse.
There were allusions in the writing on the walls of the tomb to the seven stars of the Great Bear that go to make up the Plough; and the North was again and again emphasized. The same symbols were repeated with regard to the "Magic Box", as we called it. We had already noticed those peculiar translucent spaces in the stone of the box.
He wanted to explain the case, and clear up the mistakes, and expose the rascalities of the plaintiff's witnesses; and the trial was adjourned until the next morning. When the case was resumed the following day, Bart, in a clear, simple way, stated his case, and the evidence in support of it, making two or three playful allusions to his profound and accomplished opponent.
These are varied with digressions of a graver cast: philosophical sentiments, patriotic allusions, gentle moralisings, and rare gems of ancient legend, succeed each other in the kaleidoscope of his shifting fancy, whose combinations may appear irregular, but are generally bound together by chains of the most delicate art. His chief faults are exaggeration, vanity, and an inordinate love of words.
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