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Giulietta came to her for advice, saying that she longed to throw over Count Gallenberg for "that beautiful horrible Beethoven if it were not such a come-down." She did not condescend, as we have seen, and lived to regret it bitterly. The idolatry of the pupil finally seized the teacher. Beethoven came to dote upon the large heart, the pure soul, and the serene mind of Thérèse.
The roar of laughter was sufficient to make Fleming forget all about impositions. But Mansell did not perform very well on the Lower ground, and Gordon overheard Lovelace remarking to Meredith that Mansell was really rather a come-down for a School House cap. But, whatever his football performances, Mansell was a continual source of laughter.
As the wife of a wealthy man, Caroline would be All Right. He had had his doubts before, at times, because he really felt it was a come-down for a young fellow in a seed-merchant's office to be engaged to a servant.
“Let me alone,” said Alyosha suddenly, with a weary gesture of his hand, still looking away from him. “Oho! So that’s how we are feeling! So you can shout at people like other mortals. That is a come-down from the angels. I say, Alyosha, you have surprised me, do you hear? I mean it. It’s long since I’ve been surprised at anything here. I always took you for an educated man....”
I've heard it put about that her father used to keep one; and quite likely, now you mention it, she stuck her husband in the doorway to hide the come-down." "The pot-plants were lovely," Miss Oliver sighed; "they made me feel for the moment like Eve in the Garden of Eden." "Then I'm thankful you didn't behave like it. I was stiff enough by time we reached the drawing-room."
He ran upstairs whistling. It would be a great come-down for her that had always been such a pet of his father's to be spoken to about her conduct.... The door had swung ajar, so Mr.
A good deal of what was transshipped to the Rozinante was manufactured goods which would compete with merchandise produced on Gram. "That load will be a come-down, after what the Space Scourge took back, but we didn't want to send the Rozinante back empty," he said. "One thing, I had time to do a little reading, between stops." "The books from the Eglonsby library?" "Yes.
But when he had left the office, Jonathan shook his head and sought out his bookkeeper. "That's a very nice young man, Miss Summers," he said. "Mr. Quentin, I mean." Miss Summers agreed. "But I'm afraid he's pretty heartsore yet." Miss Summers looked a question. "He's a young architect," Jonathan explained, "who didn't make good. I'm afraid this work seems a come-down to him."
"Nothing at all," said Corny; "she can't talk a word of English. If she could, she might get along better. I suppose her people want somebody over them who can talk English. And so they've just left her to sell peppers, and get along as well as she can." "It's a good deal of a come-down, I must say," said I. "I wonder how she likes it?"
When in full view of each other they were as close-mouthed as clams. The singing became a special feature. My brethren in other churches considered this a terrible "come-down" at first, but changed their minds later and copied the thing, borrowing the best of my good slides and not a few of the unique ideas accompanying the scheme.
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