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Those two had been 'miserably brought up, had never had a chance of finding their proper place, of understanding that they were just two callow young things, for whom Life had some fearful knocks in store.
Judge Baronet tells me not to worry, that he will keep close watch." "Well, take it straight from me that he will do it," I assured her. "Let's let the widower go his way. He talks about me; says I'm 'callow, that's it, just callow. I don't mind being callow, as long as it's not catching. Look at the river, how it glistens now.
Lovel, with an absent meditative air, as of a man who discusses the most indifferent subject possible. "I hope he may. It would be a pity for such a place to fall into such hands. She would make it a phalanstery, a nest for Dorcas societies and callow curates." "But if she does good with her money, papa, what more could one wish?" "I don't believe that she would do much good.
Up to the very hour of their talk, the callow little curate had gained no inkling of what his rector had been passing through. To his young mind, the experience was no less cruel to himself than it had been to Brenton. It shocked him unspeakably to find that any man had dared to tear up that pattern and draft a fresh one for himself.
The children, playing noisily in the back yard on the wood-pile, paused for a moment to gaze with callow interest at them; but the spectacle of "The'dosia's sweetheart" was too familiar to be of more than fleeting diversion, and they resorted once more to their pastime. Mrs.
'I tell you, sir, she's let, Abel repeated. 'A bargain's a bargain! It occurred to him that the Callow garden might, with fifty pounds, be filled with beehives from end to end. 'Mister, he said, almost in tears, 'you didn't ought to go for to 'tice me!
The Duchess tittered. "Dear heart! how tragic you are!" she sighed. "Suppose she did, what then? And besides hum! This time it is young D'Arcy, it seems, callow, pink, and quite harmless." "Madam?" said Barnabas, wondering. "Over there behind the marble faun, quite harmless, and very pink, you'll notice. I mean young D'Arcy not the faun. Clever minx! Now I mean Cleone, of course there she is!"
You gentlemen will bear with me if I go into personal details a little. I suppose I've always had the newspaper idea. When I was a youngster of twenty, I tried myself out. Got a job as a reporter in St. Louis. It was just a callow escapade. And of course it couldn't last. I was an undisciplined sort of cub. They fired me; quite right, too. But I did learn a little.
"By Gad!" he finished. "You know, I feel like a raw schoolboy, talkin' like this!" Morrell leaned forward, his reserve of manner laid aside, his whole being radiating sympathetic charm. "My dear chap, don't," he begged, laying his hand on Sansome's forearm. "A genuine passion is the most glorious thing on earth even in callow youth! But when we old men of the world " The pause was eloquent.
It is not enough that we have edified her a pedestal and perform impossible rites in celebration of her altitude and distinction. It does not suffice that with never a smile we assure her that she is the superior sex a whopper by the repetition whereof certain callow youth among us have incurred the divine vengeance of belief.
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