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You know beforehand the precise point of view that he will take upon every conceivable topic, and the channels in which his conversation is certain to flow. His entire mental horizon will be bounded by academic conventionalities in such a cast-iron fashion that it would, you are well aware, waste your time to attempt to extend its boundaries by the fraction of an inch.
But I meant no wrong, and as you referred to my sister, I can say, before God, that I would shield you as I would shield her. "I know little of the conventionalities of the world. I live but a hermit's life in it, and my letter may seem to you very foolish and romantic, still I know that my motives are not ignoble, and with this consciousness I venture.
The motives by which travellers are actuated are as various as their temperaments; some find the "propelling power" in the impulse of curiosity, some in the thirst for novelty; others in a strong and genuine love of knowledge; others, again, in a natural impatience of inaction, or a rebellion against the commonplaces and conventionalities of society, a yearning after the romantic and adventurous.
He was no stickler for conventionalities, and did not in the least object to appear at his destination where he knew no one with a baby and a carriage. "I'll get some country girl to take care of it when I am busy," he said, "and the rest of the time I'll attend to it myself.
I had some doubt about the propriety of taking Rayel to such a place, unaccustomed as he was to the refinements and conventionalities of fashionable life. However, he had set his heart upon going he was so eager to see his beloved picture and I did not oppose his wish. In writing our acceptance of the invitation I corrected Mr.
Quiet as it was at the old house, it had always been a source of happiness to us to be allowed to make a visit to Uncle John. There, if that were possible, we did more as we pleased than even at home; there were not even the conventionalities of society to restrain us; we were in the country, comparatively.
As Agnes Repplier has it: "Lothair is beloved by the female aristocracy of Great Britain; and mysterious ladies, whose lofty souls stoop to no conventionalities, die happy with his kisses on their lips."
The Swiss "adventurer" one of the most enlightened men of his age, and full of genius became colonel of this regiment; and Peter, not thinking he knew anything about true military tactics, and wishing to learn, and not too proud to learn, being born with disdain of conventionalities and precedents, entered the regiment as drummer, in sight of his own subjects, who perhaps looked upon the act as a royal freak, even as Nero practised fiddling, and Commodus archery, before the Roman people.
'I think you couldn't do better, Mrs. Carnaby replied to the last question; 'provided that She paused intentionally, with an air of soft solicitude, of bland wisdom. 'That's just what I wanted, said Alma eagerly. 'Advise me tell me just what you think. 'You want to live alone, and to have done with all the silly conventionalities and proprieties our old friend Mrs. Grundy, in fact.
Mis' Tolman's a proper good cook, if her childern have all turned out ducks, an' took to the water. Every one on 'em's took back as much as three generations for their noses an' tempers. Strange they had to go so fur!" She broke the rich brown loaf in the middle, and divided a piece with Molly. Such were the habits calculated to irritate the conventionalities of Tiverton against her.
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