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But my poor affair had been in an earlier day, and my namesake wove novelty into the woof of his. For in that wonder-book of the fertile-minded Gaskell was a form of letter which Calvin Blake Denney began to copy early in December, and which by the following spring he could write in a style that already put my own poor penning to the blush.
Denney, how far more refined it were to say 'God's acre, or 'the marbled city of the dead'? I now turn from mere solecisms to the broader question of taste.
By tact alone had he achieved that which open sneers, covert insult, abuse, ridicule, contumely, and forthright threats had failed to consummate, and in the first flush of the news we all felt much as Westley Keyts said he did. "Solon Denney is some subtler than me," said Westley, in a winning spirit of concession; "I can see that, now.
Then I bore my fainting burden to the dry sands and revived her with cocoanut milk and breadfruit, while the natives crowded respectfully about and made us their king and queen on the spot. We lived there forever. How flat of sound were it to say that we lived happily! And yet I doubt if Solon Denney ever suspected me of aspiring to be his rival.
And when they sang, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow!" my voice soared fervently in the words, for I had satisfied myself by much craning of the neck that Solon Denney was not present. Even now the Doxology revives within me that mixed emotion of relief at his absence and apprehension for the approaching encounter with her.
A jury of Little Arcadians would have multiplied it tenfold without a blush; for, while that little hoard endured, any citizen, however public spirited, could flavor with a certain grace his refusal to subscribe for a book. To Solon Denney the thing came as a deep and divine relief.
On every hand were good fellowship and kind words, the light-hearted salute, the joyous mien. It was an occasion that came near to being festal, and Solon Denney was its hero. He sought to bear his honors with the modesty that is native to him, but in his heart he knew that we now spoke of him glibly as the Boss of Little Arcady, and the consciousness of it bubbled in his manner in spite of him.
I had never less liked the way she said this, as if it were a boon at which I would snatch, instead of a penalty imposed. Solon Denney followed me, glibly enumerating the industries of a great and busy state. But I could not listen.
But at his retort the lady merely elevated her rather fine brows and remarked, "Really, Mr. Denney, you speak much as you write you must not let me forget to give you that little book I spoke of." As we went down the stairs Solon placed "One Hundred Common Errors in Speaking and Writing" close under his arm, adroitly shielding the title from public scrutiny.
Denney rightly argues, some rational relation between our necessities and what Christ has done before we can speak of His act as a proof of His love.
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