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It is not always true that a man's character is indicated by his daily habits, nor that his intellectual tendency is definable by the qualities of his temper or by his personal tastes. Carlyle was one instance of the contrary; Lincoln was another; Bismarck was a great third, with his iron head and his delicate feminine hands.
There is in fact hardly a single distinct and definable colour that cannot be fairly matched among the 390 species of known parrots. Their habits, too, are such as to bring them prominently before the eye.
To this day we have not achieved a really native civilisation. Our art, morals, and religion, though deeply dyed in native feeling, are still only definable and, indeed, conceivable by reference to classic and alien standards.
It was not in his nature to be needlessly unkind; and though he was in the impregnable position of the man who has given a woman no more definable claim on him than that of letting her fancy that he loves her, he would not for the world have accentuated his advantage by any betrayal of indifference.
Her age was perhaps twenty-five, in her bearing was that subtle, scarcely definable, sureness of self which marks off womanhood from girlhood. She climbed from tier to tier of the amphitheatre with firm confident step; stood gazing down on her dream pictures of the scene in the arena; moved on to a fresh vantage-point.
For a second the perfume of the woman in front, mingling with other less definable odours, almost sickened her, evoking suggestions of tawdry, trivial, vulgar lives, fed on sensation and excitement; but the feeling was almost immediately swept away by a renewed sense of the bigness of the thing which she beheld, of which, indeed, she was a part.
There is, of course, the ill-defined and scarcely definable item of expenditure under the general head of Gentility, Dignity, Distinction, Magnificence, or whatever term may seem suitable to designate that consumption of goods and services that goes to maintain the high repute of the Court and to keep the underlying gentlefolk in countenance.
It seemed unsubstantial and shadowy. There were solid, definable arguments on the one side; there was a vague general impression on the other.... So the Major sat and stared at the fire, with the candle-light falling on his sunken cheeks and the bristle on his chin a poor fallen kind of figure, yet still holding the shadow of a shadow of an ideal that might yet make him dangerous.
Her aromatic presence, and in this setting, continually disturbed him: nature's perfumes, more definable, exhalations of the sea and spruce, mingled with hers, anaesthetics compelling lethargy. He felt himself drowning, even wished to drown, and yet strangely resisted. "I must go to-morrow," he said. "To-morrow why? There is a dinner, you know, and Mrs.
What did happen was that Gwen and Adrian, who a moment before were nominally a lady and gentleman chatting on a sofa near the piano, whose separation involved no consequences definable for either, were standing speechless in each other's arms speechless but waiting for the power to speak. For nobody can articulate whose heart is thumping out of all reason. He has to wait or she, as may be.
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