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If they were, he for one would 'scratch. This time he had a larger backing; and, amid a good deal of chaff and laughter, had carried his point. That open clash between them slight though it was had jarred Roy a good deal. Lance, characteristically, had ignored the whole thing. But not even the inner jar could blunt Roy's keen anticipation of the whole affair.
The immediate successors of Francis I. continued to visit, Chambord; but it was neglected by Henry IV., and was never afterwards a favorite residence of any French king. Louis XIV. appeared there on several occasions, and the apparition was characteristically brilliant; but Chambord could not long detain a monarch who had gone to the expense of creating a Versailles ten miles from Paris.
To begin at the end, I will say that the "landing" surprised me by a slight and very characteristically "dead" sort of shock. I may fairly call myself an amphibious creature.
One remark I may make in this connection, viz., that those enormous vases and other similar articles of Japanese ware which have long been so greatly prized in Europe, and many of which are magnificent specimens of decorative art, are not, in one sense, characteristically Japanese. The Japanese has always, if I may so express it, used art as the handmaiden of utilitarianism.
So many circumstances connected with Boyce's visit were of a nature that precluded confidential discussion with Marigold, that precluded, indeed, confidential discussion with anyone else. The suddenness of his departure I learned that afternoon from Mrs. Boyce, who sent me by hand a miserable letter characteristically rambling. From it I gathered certain facts.
Our love was interwoven with all our other interests; to go out of the world and live in isolation seemed to us like killing the best parts of each other; we loved the sight of each other engaged finely and characteristically, we knew each other best as activities. We had no delusions about material facts; we didn't want each other alive or dead, we wanted each other fully alive.
They're getting ready for it. I want to see it!" "Oh, Alice. Suppose it should be a blizzard!" "Well, I want to see it anyhow. If it's going to come I can't stop it; but I can enjoy it," Alice remarked in her characteristically philosophical way. There was a curious humming in the air, as though someone, a great way off, were moaning in pain.
For with the fourteenth century comes Dante, who, in the utterance of scorn, leaves all other poets in the world far behind, and who, if only on account of his great picture of the deceivers, must be called the chief master of colossal comedy. What stores of wit were concentrated in Florence during this century is most characteristically shown in the novels of Franco Sacchetti.
And it's a better thing for this world that some of us think a little earthly common sense is more valuable than too much heavenly knowledge." On one occasion Miss Anthony had the doubtful pleasure of reading her own obituary notices, and her interest in them was characteristically naive.
The backwoodsmen were above all things characteristically American; and it is fitting that the two greatest and most typical of all Americans should have been respectively a sharer and an outcome of their work.
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