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And though I, no less cheerfully, grant that we have now living among us a creator of poetic romance immeasurably more inventive than they, appealing to our credulity in portents the most monstrous, with a charm of style the most conversationally familiar, still I cannot conceive that even that unrivalled romance-writer can so bewitch our understandings as to make us believe that, if Miss Mordaunt's cat dislikes to wet her feet, it is probably because in the prehistoric age her ancestors lived in the dry country of Egypt; or that when some lofty orator, a Pitt or a Gladstone, rebuts with a polished smile which reveals his canine teeth the rude assault of an opponent, he betrays his descent from a 'semi-human progenitor' who was accustomed to snap at his enemy.
At the same time he was slightly impatient: his faith in the dangers of Havana had been shaken by the city's aspect of profound placidity, its air of unalloyed pleasure. "You should know my friends," Andrés went on conversationally; "Remigio Florez, they are great coffee planters, and Jaime Jaime Quintara and Tirso Labrador. They will welcome you, as I."
I don't wonder he found a public school too restricted a sphere for his energies." "Has he been fighting a duel?" asked Marjory, interested. "Bushrangers," said Phyllis. "There aren't any bushrangers in Buenos Ayres," said Ella. "How do you know?" said Phyllis clinchingly. "Bush-ray, bush-ray, bush-ray," began Gladys Maud, conversationally, through the bread-and-milk; but was headed off.
Waiting for him, I suppose," he added, flicking a curl of ash into the fire. "He's a treasure of a valet," he supplemented conversationally. But Miss Craven let the observation pass. She was still staring into the leaping flames, drumming with her fingers on the arms of the chair. Once she tried to speak but no words came. Peters waited.
"Yes," he answered, turning and looking into the Count's face with a certain honest interest. He was thinking of what Eve had said about this man. "Yes I know Mallorca." The Count struck a match and lighted his cigar with the air of a connoisseur. "I am always glad," he said conversationally, "to meet any one who knows Mallorca. It was my home. Perhaps you knew?"
After paying for the telegram, Christian took possession of the bulky packet of newspapers addressed to him, and they left the post office. It appeared to Stanley, on the way home that morning, that the conversation flagged somewhat. He therefore set to himself the task of reviving it. "Christian," he began conversationally, "is there any smuggling done now? Real smuggling, I mean."
I sympathized with Prince K., who being next him at table turned his back on him and ignored him conversationally; which embarrassed the young man extremely. Apropos of his shirt, I never saw any one but the count himself wear a shirt that a real peasant would have worn; and I do not believe that even he had one of the characteristic red cotton garments which are the peasant's pride.
Linked to the jutting headland, a long range of sea-washed cliffs stretched as far as the eyes could reach. "That be Monk's Cliff," vouchsafed the driver conversationally. "Bit of a lonesome place for folks to choose to live at, ain't it?" "Who lives there?" asked Sara with interest. "Gentleman of the name of Trent queer kind of bloke he must be, too, if all's true they say of 'im.
'I think if I remember aright, said Lady Falconer, 'that she had just returned from Cintra when I met her. 'I have always heard that Cintra is a most lovely place, said Mr. Semple conversationally; 'and Mrs. Ogilvie had a peculiar love for beautiful things. 'Cintra is beautiful, and Lisbon itself is a particularly fine town, assented Lady Falconer. 'Mrs.
And again: "There are a great number of conventional ideas which are largely current, not only conversationally and among ordinary people, but in books—good and sensible books, written by people of experience—which are, in my opinion, radically and absolutely false, and yet no one takes the trouble to question them. I am always coming across them.
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