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"Well, I did. Hush! he is coming toward us," and Tamara hurriedly opened a book and looked down. "At last Mrs. Loraine has arrived on deck," she heard Millicent say; and then, for convention's sake she was obliged to glance up and bow coldly. The young man did not seem the least impressed; he sat down and pulled his rug round his knees and gazed out at the sea.
"Is it of the scavenger's daughter that you speak?" "Four weeks, then, a month. It cannot be more. I tell you, woman, for a longer time than this I cannot keep the youth at bay. Is a month decent in convention's eyes?" Mata began to sob loudly in her upraised sleeve. "I see that it is at least permissible," said Kano, grimly. "What a weak set of social idiots we are, after all.
I seem to see an intelligence naturally grave and austere donning a dress of wit for convention's sake. The author desires to entertain as much as to teach, the thinker is also a bel-esprit, the jurisconsult has a touch of the coxcomb, and a perfumed breath from the temple of Venus has penetrated the tribunal of Minos.
Farwell will make the delegates welcome in the name of the First Church Epworthians." And he did. He had his notes, pretty full ones, to which he made frequent references, but the quality in his speech which drew the convention's cheers was its frank and natural simplicity.
But it was a personal matter, something to remain locked in his own breast. So he perforce went with Nelly Abbott and was duly presented to Miss Elizabeth Gower. And he had the next dance with her, also for convention's sake. While they stood chatting a moment, the four of them, Stubby said to MacRae: "Who are you with, Jack?" "The Robbin-Steeles."
If I'm dining with you we've got to have Leila for convention's sake, if not from motives of sheer decency, which you and I seem to lack, Stephen." "We lack decency," said Siward, "and we're proud of it. As for Leila, I am going to arrange for her very simply but very beautifully. Plank will take care of her. Sylvia! There's not a soul in town and we can be as imprudent as we please."
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