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He lifted himself on one elbow, and for an instant something seemed to be wrong with the brace under his chin. Beasley sprang to him and adjusted it tenderly. Then he bowed elaborately toward the mantel-piece. "Mrs. Hunchberg," he said, "may I have the honor?" And offered his arm. "And I must have MISTER Hunchberg," chirped Hamilton. "He must walk with me."
The marble mantelpiece was elaborately carved in Chinamen and pagodas. There were Chinese curiosities of a miscellaneous kind on the tables, and the beautiful remains of an Indian carpet underfoot.
Do you see those two men elaborately doing nothing by the railings opposite. You do? Well, they are watching me. They have been dogging me for three days. And if anything happened now, a sudden illness on your part, anything to postpone to-morrow's ceremony, I should pass the next day in jail. You did not think it was as bad as that, did you?"
The disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, the lofty mien; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.
Such matters as these have been fought out by an expert in the archaeology of Cleveland the late Canon Atkinson, who seemed to take infinite pleasure in demolishing the elaborately constructed theories of those painstaking historians of the eighteenth century, Dr. Young and Mr. Lionel Charlton. Many facts, however, which throw light on the early days of the abbey are now unassailable.
""Arundhati said, 'The great progress I have been able to achieve in penances is due to your consideration for me in thus remembering my poor self. With your gracious permission I shall now discourse on duties that are eternal, on duties that are high mysteries. I shall discourse thereon with the causes on which they depend. Listen to me as I discourse to you elaborately.
To the left lay the chancel, fitted with exquisitely carved and gilded stalls, tall, elaborately worked brass standards for lamps, gaudily painted and gilded statues of various saints, a superb reredos in marble surmounted by a cross bearing a fine lifesize figure of the Redeemer; the whole illuminated by the rainbow tints which streamed in through the beautiful stained glass of the magnificent east window, and a faint odour of incense still clung to the air of the place.
The Colonel returned his salute less elaborately. "The Maître d'Armes Lemoine?" he said. "Yes, sare, that is me. At your service!" "I am a stranger in Tralee, and I have been recommended to apply to you. You are, I am told, accustomed to give lessons." "With the small-sword?" the Frenchman answered, with the same gesture of the open hands. "It is my profession."
The man who prides himself on a hard head, which would usually be better described as a thin head, may and constantly does fall into a confirmed manner of judging character and circumstance, so narrow, one-sided, and elaborately superficial, as to make common sense shudder at the crimes that are committed in the divine name of reason.
"This" proved to be a newly built lodge which appeared on the left of the road. Stafford slowed up, and a lodgekeeper came and flung open the new and elaborately wrought iron gates. "This the way to to Sir Stephen's house?" asked Stafford. The man touched his hat reverentially. "Yes, sir," he replied. "Sir Stephen's arrived. Came an hour ago." Stafford nodded, and drove on.
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