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Lester was a little surprised at the companion her husband had brought home to breakfast with him. "Who is it?" she whispered. "That I don't know, I shall have to find out," he answered, a little nervously. "Where is her bonnet?" asked Mrs. Lester; this was the first absence of conventionality she had noticed. "You had better ask her," answered the Doctor. But Mrs.

He was everything that he was with a definite and conscious pleasure a man, a Liberal, an Englishman, an author, a gentleman, a lover, a married man. This must always be remembered as a general characteristic of Browning, this ardent and headlong conventionality. He exhibited it pre-eminently in the affair of his elopement and marriage, during and after the escape of himself and his wife to Italy.

"But there is an aeroplane," persisted the admirer. "Now pause, Anonyma," Kew warned her. "Pause and consider what you are going to say." "Consideration only unearths difficulties," laughed Anonyma. "Best go forward in faith and fearlessness." She was under the impression that she constantly laughed in a nicely naughty way at Kew's excessive conventionality.

He was able to see now that her pale composure was maintained only by an effort, that the strain of it was making her tremble. He answered in tones of careful conventionality. "I'm afraid I startled you," he said. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have ventured to speak to you at all if you hadn't " He paused. "You don't happen to remember me at all?" he asked. "No," said Annette. "If I hadn't, what?"

We talk of Poussin, of Louis Quatorze art as of its revival under David and its continuance in Ingres of, in general, modern classic art as if it were an art of convention merely; whereas, conventional as it is, its conventionality is or was, certainly, in the seventeenth century very far from being pure formulary.

Nevertheless, beyond conventionality and outward magnificence, his ideas have no range. He suggests nothing to the moral and ideal part of us. Here again was the picture of King Charles on horseback, which had interested me at Warwick.

Everyone in Trenholme's house, including the master himself on crutches, became agile in their desire to alleviate the suffering, and he received their ministrations with that civility which denoted that, had conventionality allowed, he would not have received them; for to fling all that is given him at the heads of the givers is undoubtedly the conduct that nature suggests to a man in pain.

Were it not well if in this matter we abated something of our conventionality and ostentation? I do not mean to say that interments need be stripped of every thing like ornament; in all things the middle way is the safest. A simple funeral has surely in it more that awakes true religious feeling than the pomp and splendour which are too frequently made the order of the day in these proceedings.

It was a scene both simple and tragical of that order in which in society the most horrible incidents occur without a sound, without a gesture, amid phrases of conventionality and in a festal framework! Two of the spectators, at least, besides Julien, understood its importance-Ardea and Hafner.

The futility of arguing with Mary, of attempting to free her ever so little from the coils of convention which had always bound her, was only too plainly apparent. She was and naturally, sincerely, instinctively the very incarnation and mouthpiece of the conventionality of society, as she cowered there in her grief and her quiet resentment.