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Updated: June 28, 2025
It was a banal statement, and Theydon knew it, but he blurted out the first crazy words that would serve to cloak the monstrous thought which leaped into his brain.
"I wonder she did not give us 'For manners are not idle, et cetera, or something equally banal the kind of thing we are taught in our infancy " "And fail to apply ever after," said Beth. "I see you are ready," he observed fatuously, striking the personal note again, which she resented. "I dislike that cant of the obvious which there is so much of here in town," she rejoined.
After half a mile's march, we exchanged affectionate adieus, received much prudent advice about keeping watch and ward at night, recited the Fatihah with upraised palms, and with many promises to write frequently and to meet soon, shook hands and parted. The soldiers gave me a last volley, to which I replied with the "Father of Six." You see, dear L., how travelling maketh man banal.
The time had come to descend from the heights to the dull and banal levels. He divined her wish to return to earth, and he had no reason for thwarting it. With a careless laugh he put on speed and rushed her dizzily through the throng. To Dinah it was as a rapid fall through space. She felt as if she had been suddenly shot from the gates of Olympus.
In an essay on "The Gods as Apparitions of the Race-Life," Edward Carpenter, though in somewhat Platonic phraseology, thus well states the matter: "The youth sees the girl; it may be a chance face, a chance outline, amid the most banal surroundings. But it gives the cue. There is a memory, a confused reminiscence.
He was a man of few words, and those not the most polite in tone, for when the General began with a banal remark about the weather, M. Baume replied, shortly: "I wish to have no talk;" and when Sir Charles pulled out his cigarette-case, as he did almost automatically from time to time when in any situation of annoyance or perplexity, Baume raised his hand warningly and grunted: "Not allowed."
Whereupon followed all manner of helpless, hopeless, banal and inadequate commonplaces, out of which Eddring blankly remembered only that the visit of Miss Lady to the city was to terminate that evening, at the departure of the down train.
I had actually reached the French window giving access to the drawing-room, when the skirl of a police whistle split the stillness ... and the sound came from the house which I had just quitted! To write that I was amazed were to achieve the banal. Rigid with wonderment I stood, and clutched at the open window.
"But," I said, "I always thought Lady Inley and you were very happy together." It sounded banal, even ridiculous, but I hardly knew what to say. I was startled. The tolling of the bell, too, was getting on my nerves. "One doesn't write such things," he said. "You've been abroad for years." "It's all right now?" He nodded. "I suppose so. Vere has never had the least suspicion."
"I am very fond of Ughtred," was the sole comment he was granted. "We made friends from the first. As he grows older and stronger, his misfortune may be less apparent. He will be a very clever man." "He will be a very clever man if he is at all like " He checked himself with a slight movement of his shoulders. "I was going to say a thing utterly banal. I beg your pardon.
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