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It was quite apparent that he believed that when I was at home I customarily went about in chaps, a flannel shirt and a sombrero, and, knowing the English mind, I realized that nothing was to be gained by attempting to disillusionize him.
"Thank goodness Christmas is not so very far away. I'm going to lie in bed just as late as ever I want to, in Old Chester." Janet smiled to herself. She pictured Martha's shocked surprise at the very idea of staying in bed just for the fun of it, but she did not disillusionize Phyllis.
He had gone thrilling at all this for years on end, because it came from the lips of a pretty and engaging woman, with whom it was no more than a canting shibboleth. Of course it helped to disillusionize him, and he began even to see that Gertrude was not as beautiful as he had once believed her to be.
"Imagine tramping through this mud every night and morning," was Max's first contribution to the effort he meant to make to disillusionize his romantic sister, whose dreams of life in the country he considered worse than folly. He turned up his trousers widely at the bottom as he spoke. "It's such a little way, we could soon have a better path," Sally replied.
However, I hope that a year or two will wean her from the ridiculous ideas he has taken up." "I should doubt whether her cure will be as prompt as you think, it seemed to me that her ideas were somewhat fixed, and it will need a good deal of failure to disillusionize her." "She is as obstinate as a little mule," Mr. Brander said shortly.
At last he raised his head and looked fully at her. "I am going back to the East. The hardest task of my life is awaiting me there. It is a very bitter thing to disillusionize the person to whom one is a hero." She looked at him quickly. "You are speaking of your mother? You are thinking of your mother?" He bent his head. For a space neither spoke.
If I find her I shall find the boy; but what good is that going to do me, if I find either of them or both of them, if we can't disillusionize the boy?" "In a word," interrupted the doctor, rather tartly, "all you want of me is to walk across the troubled stage " "For Peggy's sake," I observed. "Of course, yes, for Peggy's sake.
Her gratitude was speechless some days, and at others broke into torrents of words. "I can have aunt to live with me back in the dear old home," she said, once. To Amelia the crimson-satin boudoir, and the negro figures, and the bears, and the stained-glass window are all household gods, and far be it from me to wish to disillusionize her.
I could live in two rooms and eat at an Italian restaurant with the right man. And I am afraid the wrong one would wake up one day and discover that I had gone. I am sorry to disillusionize you, but I don't care a fig for balls and garden-parties and salons. It would be much more fun to run away from them to the queer places of the earth with the right man.
We tend, I think, to look upon the advice that we give to young people as something that shall disillusionize them. The cynic of forty sneers at what he terms the platitudes of commencement addresses. He knows life. He has been behind the curtains. He has looked upon the other side of the scenery, the side that is just framework and bare canvas.
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