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Updated: May 4, 2025
I am not fit to be a teacher; no one is who is so scornful of stupidity as I am. . . . The pearl writes quaint countrified little verses, doggerel they are; but somehow or other she always contrives to put in one line, one thought, one image, that shows you she is, quite unconsciously to herself, in possession of the secret. . . . Good-by; I'll bring Rebecca home with me some Friday, and let you and mother see her for yourselves.
These pinchbecks, these whispering tale-tellers in their bourgeois, countrified setting; these politico-police combinations whose grotesque side was always uppermost; while the terrible side, the Siberian aspect, prisons, black holes, hangings, disappearances, exiles and deaths and martyrdoms remained so jealously hidden that no one ever spoke of them!
Ever and anon he came to a water-wheel, and above the water-wheel a dam made originally by art, but now looking like a sweet little lake. They were beautiful places; the wheels and their attendant works were old and rugged, but picturesque and countrified; and the little lakes behind, fringed by the master-grinder's garden, were strangely peaceful and pretty.
The girl curtseyed in an awkward countrified manner, and ushered Mr. Carter into the hall. "Betty!" roared the master of the house, as the girl reached the foot of the stair with the detective; "Betty, come here!" She went back to her master, and Mr. Carter heard a whispered conversation, very brief, of which the last sentence only was audible.
Etienne, to initiate "his wife" into Paris life, varied this honeymoon by evenings at the play, where Dinah would only go to the stage box. At first Madame de la Baudraye preserved some remnants of her countrified modesty; she was afraid of being seen; she hid her happiness. She would say: "Monsieur de Clagny or Monsieur Gravier may have followed me to Paris."
A dignified and rustic couple, the millions of the son gilding the countrified air of the mother, like the rags of a saint enshrined in a golden chasse they disappeared in the bright sunlight outside, in the splendour of their glittering carriage a ferocious irony in their deep distress, a striking symbol of the terrible misery of the rich.
Being politely supplied with caramels, Polly sat looking and listening, feeling very young and countrified among these elegant young ladies. "Girls, do you know that Carrie has gone abroad? There has been so much talk, her father could n't bear it, and took the whole family off. Is n't that gay?" said one lively damsel, who had just come in. "I should think they 'd better go.
I am quite certain that the scar will be merely a thin white line, and not in the least a disfigurement. The silk stitches are ready to be removed and the others nearly dissolved. Yesterday that funny, countrified doctor, from down in the village, came up to see her fame of your operation having spread.
A rose, a bunch of mignonette would be to her too gay a posy for the Lord's House and the Lord's Day. And balmier breath than was ever borne by blossom is the pure fragrance of green growing things, southernwood, mint, sweet fern, bayberry, sweetbrier. No rose is half so fresh, so countrified, so memory-sweet. The benches and the pew-seats in the old churches were never cushioned.
May not this be because the children of our Nation play so well; so much better than we grown- ups do anything? One spring, not long ago, a friend of mine, knowing that I had a desire to spend the summer in the "real country," said to me, "Why don't you go to a farm somewhere in New England? Nothing could be more 'really countrified' than that! You would get what you want there."
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