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But patience vanished at the sound of footsteps up the street. "Quit it, that's a good girl," he begged, reconnoitring. Despite the lively devil's deputy at elbow the appeal wavered on. "It's a policeman coming. He'll think " Shelby broke off his conjecture to utter some banality about the moon, to drown her invocation.

But he could find no opening. His conversational stock-in-trade, he had the sense to realize, was totally unlike theirs. He could do nothing but sit still, remain physically inert while he was mentally in a state of extreme unrest. He ventured a banality about the weather. Carr smiled faintly. Tommy Ashe observed offhand that the heat was beastly, but not a patch to blizzards and frost.

She wore a wisteria gown of soft wool. She held up her skirts daintily. A great amethyst gleamed at her throat, but her face, wearing a smile like a painted one, was dreadful. It was inconceivable, but Margaret Edes had actually in view the banality of confessing her sin to her minister. Of course, Annie was the one who divined her purpose. Von Rosen was simply bewildered.

As to the Captain, I was struck on closer view by the perfect correctness of his personality. Clothes, slight figure, clear-cut, thin, sun-tanned face, pose, all this was so good that it was saved from the danger of banality only by the mobile black eyes of a keenness that one doesn’t meet every day in the south of France and still less in Italy.

Take for instance the wonderfully subtle analysis of a woman's heart as wife and mother that we find in "Une Vie." Could aught be more delicately incisive? Sometimes in describing the apparently inexplicable conduct of a certain woman he leads his readers to a point where a false step would destroy the spell and bring the reproach of banality and ridicule upon the tale.

She must force herself to talk, and to keep the poor woman off the topic of her son; but she, who was considered ready-tongued and ready-witted, sat dumb, she had not a word to say. "There is so much difference in chairs," she said, at length. The banality did not affect Mrs Jones to laughter, as the speaker had a fear it might have done. She seized eagerly on the remark. "Isn't there?

I did not expect such a banality from you. Do you think, Mr. Henderson, we had better sell?" "Sell what?" "Our stocks. You are so occupied that I thought they might fall when you are up in the clouds somewhere." "No, I shall not forget." "Well, such things happen. I might forget you if it were not for the stocks." "Then I shall keep the stocks, even if they fall."

And yet when, as I knew her better she told me her real tariff and I saw how rumour had quadrupled it, I liked her enough to be sorry. After a while I discovered too that if she got less it was not that I was to get any more. My failure never had what Mrs. Stormer would have called the banality of being relative it was always admirably absolute.

He couldn't help this: the time, the place, the girl inspired, indeed incited, one to banality. "Why?" she persisted. "Oh, you know." He caught the intonation of her previous words precisely. She had the grace to blush and hang her head; but he received a thrilling sidelong glance. "Ah... aren't you awful to talk that way, Mr. Duncan?" "Yes," he admitted meekly.

That part of the southern coast of France called the Riviera seems now only to evoke visions of the most beautiful banality; of a life more artificial than the stage which at least aims to present reality transplanted to a scene of such incomparable loveliness that Nature herself adds a new and exquisite sumptuousness to the luxury of civilisation.

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