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In fact, in three short months he was fully qualified to pass a connoisseur's judgment on a high-ball, to hold his own in a game of poker, and to carry on a fairly coherent flirtation in four different languages. With this newly acquired wisdom he was now setting sail for home, having accomplished his downward career with such alacrity that he did not at all realize what had happened to him.
Stark kept turning a heavy ring upon his finger, showing in face and tone that the connoisseur's dogmatism troubled him more than he wished to have it thought. "Winterbottom warrants it," he added, with a triumphant jerk of his plump body. "Then Winterbottom is either cheating or cheated. That is no Morland; take my word for it. Was that all you wanted me for?" Mr.
Not to be outdone by the colours of the flowers, the butler was clad in a red waistcoat, embroidered with gold, a green cloth coat, blue baggy trousers, and a red fez with a tassel nearly a yard long, while a connoisseur's mouth would have watered at the sight of his antique silver watch-chain with its exquisitely worked hanging blobs.
Amedee introduced himself, and at once there was a broad smile, a handshake, and a connoisseur's greedy sniffling. Then Massif opened the manuscript. "Let us see! Ah, yes, with margins and false titles we can make out two hundred and fifty pages." The business was settled quickly. A sheet of stamped paper an agreement!
I had the vision of a matronly, but not much altered Janet, mounted on horseback, to witness the performance of some favourite Eleven of youngsters with her connoisseur's eye; and then the model of an English lady, wife, and mother, waving adieu to the field and cantering home to entertain her husband's guests. Her husband! Temple was aware of my grief, but saw no remedy.
A more satisfactory one I could not have wished, and I have something of a connoisseur's eye.
But it was the look of expertness in things hardly worth the trouble of learning; it was aristocracy's highly-prized air of the dog that leads in the bench show and tails in the field. He was like a firearm polished and incrusted with gems and hanging in a connoisseur's wall-case; Josh was like a battle-tested rifle in the sinewy hands of an Indian in full war-paint.
I told Mr. Bumpus I expected to find work for her." Mrs. Maturin returned Insall's smile. "I suppose you're too polite to say that I'm carried away by my enthusiasms. But you will at least do me the justice to admit that they are rare and discriminating, as a connoisseur's should be. I think even you will approve of her." "Oh, I have approved of her that's the trouble." Mrs.
He was, too, essentially and curiously the son of his father even to his minor tastes, such as his connoisseur's palate for a good wine and his judgment in "smokes" and this feeling of a certain detachment from the larger emotions of life was always his father's pose the philosopher's. In his father's case it was perhaps engendered, if not necessitated, by his poor health and wretched nerves.
Amedee introduced himself, and at once there was a broad smile, a handshake, and a connoisseur's greedy sniffling. Then Massif opened the manuscript. "Let us see! Ah, yes, with margins and false titles we can make out two hundred and fifty pages." The business was settled quickly. A sheet of stamped paper an agreement!
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