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She is such a brilliant conversationalist, so interesting, so instructive and so entertaining, that it is a great pleasure and satisfaction to have the opportunity of being in her delightful presence, and of sitting within the sound of her sweet, charming, and musical voice. In physical development she is as near perfection as it is possible for a woman to be.
"I fear, very little; but I will go and see the cook, though, alas! she is not easy to inspire as regards her particular business. She is extremely entertaining as a conversationalist, but I think she was meant for society rather than the kitchen. I am sure society would be more diverting if she were in it." Hadria was just turning to seek this misplaced genius, when she paused in the doorway.
It might have been a parrot, or some other ill-natured talking bird; only Ruth saw nothing of the feathered conversationalist when Sam opened the door and ushered her in. "Here we are, wife!" he exclaimed, cheerfully. "And how's Mercy?" The reiterated declaration had stopped instantly. A comely, kind-faced woman with snow-white hair, came forward.
Again, B. is no doubt a charming conversationalist in English; but he does not know one single word of any other language. He requires every observation of their alien fellow-travellers to be translated, and then says 'Oh! discontentedly, or 'It seems to me that foreigners have no ideas. And not for one moment can A. get rid of him.
She was a born conversationalist, a creature of her country, entirely and absolutely feminine, to whom the subtle and flattering deference of the other sex was as the breath of life itself. Peter burned his homage upon her altar with a craft which amounted to genius. In less than half an hour Madame la Duchesse was looking many years younger.
And so, at last, he came to feel a genuine desire to win some feeling from her, since she was rousing so much in him; but the genuine desire seemed as vain as the former idle one, for while Olive undoubtedly enjoyed his society, since he assisted her in discovering the best sketching points, and was an able conversationalist in what he had read and seen; there was nothing beyond it, and she would have enjoyed the same, just as well, in any one else.
"Close enough," said Dave, when the dust had settled. "Well, let us jog back home." They took the return trip leisurely, drinking in the glories of the night, and allowing time for the play of conversation. Bert Morrison was a good conversationalist. Her points of interest were almost infinite. And they were back among the street lights before they knew. "Oh, we are nearly home," she exclaimed.
An issue which is essentially general and impersonal is lost in the accidental conflicts of personalities, because the quality which plays the most important part is presence of mind, not correct reasoning. A conversationalist whose argument is wholly fallacious will often, by exercise of verbal adroitness, dispose of an objection which is really fatal.
Or I indulge in conversation, in which what better guide than is to be found on page 662, 'The Polite Conversationalist, including gems of wit, apt quotations, how to gain and hold the attention, how to amuse, instruct and argue, et cetery?
To quote the same authority, "that wonderful woman, able to live in the full light of Carlyle's genius without being overwhelmed by it," had a peculiar skill in drawing out the most brilliant conversationalist of the age.
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