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Updated: June 29, 2025
"That is most unfair," said Reckage hotly. "One must see where one is going." "The world," said Sara, "in the long run, despises those who pander to it." "Yes, but it is in the long run, and no mistake! What a fellow you are, Robert! Why don't you suggest something? Are you trying to find the civilest thing you can say of the performance?"
But we are gentlemen, and our private friends must not be thrown overboard, unless, at least, we do it in the civilest manner we can." "Fear not," said the lawyer; "you have only to say the word, and the Cabinet can cook up an embassy to Owhyhee, and send Raffden there with a stipend of five thousand a year."
Mr Gazebee had written to him the civilest notes; but every note seemed to cost him money, every word of each note seemed to find its way into some bill. His wife had died and her body had been brought back, with all the pomp befitting the body of an earl's daughter, that it might be laid with the old De Courcy dust, at his expense.
Lancelot had drawn off his travelling boots and spruced himself, and looked a comely fellow. When I entered he broke off in what he was saying to clasp my hand again, while the Captain rang for dinner, expressing as he did so the civilest regrets at my mother's absence. Then we all sat to table and dined together in the pleasantest good-fellowship.
In answer to the first, she assured him, in the civilest words which she knew how to use, that such a step was impossible; but, at the same time, she signified her willingness to obey him in any other particular, and suggested that as they must live apart, her present home with her grandfather would probably be thought to be the one most suitable for her.
Mr Sandford stood for some time in mute astonishment; but at length he was beginning the civilest speech he could think of, to refuse so great a present, when Tommy, coming up, took him by the hand, and begged him not to deny to his father and himself the first favour they had ever asked.
Poor Fanny was absolutely pained. Saville enjoyed it, for he always revenged a jest by an impertinence. "Nay," said Godolphin, "our friend does but joke. Your champagne is excellent, Fanny. Well, Saville, and where is young Greenhough? He is vanished. Report says he was marked down in your company, and has not risen since." "Report is the civilest jade in the world.
Beaumont forget to send a card of invitation, or neglect to return a visit, Lightbody was to set it to rights for her, Lightbody, the ready bearer of pretty notes, the maker always, the fabricator sometimes, of the civilest speeches imaginable.
"That man," he said lightly, "is going to the Plateau if I have to drag him there by the scruff of the neck." And he believed that he was thinking of the expedition only. Who, when they slash and cut to pieces, Do so with civilest addresses. There is no power so subtle and so strong as that of association.
Get me a glass of cherry-brandy. Club waiters, the civilest, the kindest, the patientest of men, die under the infliction of these cruel young topers.
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