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Good thing I'm free on the fifteenth to haul you away from all this". Perhaps because they had first met at an age when eighteen months seemed an immense gap between them, Lance had never quite dropped the elder-brotherly attitude of St Rupert days. "Yes a rare good thing " Roy echoed, and stopped with a visible jerk. "Well, what's the hitch? Hit out, man. Don't mind me."
His is essentially the artistic temperament, and he is a creature of moods, impish in some, poetic in others; an extraordinary fellow, like no one I ever saw, yet curiously fascinating, and I find myself growing oddly fond of him, in an elder-brotherly, protecting sort of way.
Begins with an 'e' and means being a jolly sight too clever." "Elaborate, sir?" "That is the exact word I was after. Too elaborate, Jeeves that is what you are frequently prone to become. Your methods are not simple, not straightforward. You cloud the issue with a lot of fancy stuff that is not of the essence. All that Gussie needs is the elder-brotherly advice of a seasoned man of the world.
He called his age and his disillusions to the rescue; he posed to himself as stooping to her in some sort of elder-brotherly fashion: and if every now and then some disturbing memory of that strange scene between them would come to make his present rôle less plausible, or some whim of hers made it difficult to play, why then at bottom there was always the consciousness that sixty hours, or thereabouts, would see him safely settled in that morning train to London.
Worst of all the scene at the Vicarage, the book held in her slender fingers, her look of bewilderment and distress what a pompous ass he had been, how stupid and coarse! He thought of writing to her; he did write but the dignified patronage of his elder-brotherly style sickened him, and he tore up his unfinished letter.
He did not seek them as Dunham did; their society was not a matter of life or death with him; but he had an elder-brotherly kindness for the whole sex. Lydia waited awhile for him to say something more, but he added nothing, and she observed, with a furtive look: "I presume you've seen some very severe storms at sea." "No," Staniford answered, "I haven't.
"That's not for me to say," was Amy's grim reply, but her lips would smile, and there was a traitorous sparkle of the eye which betrayed that she knew her power and enjoyed the knowledge. "You are not engaged, I hope?" and Laurie looked very elder-brotherly and grave all of a sudden. "No." "But you will be, if he comes back and goes properly down on his knees, won't you?" "Very likely."
"But look here, Mary, tell me about yourself. What have you been doing? dancing riding, eh?" He threw himself down beside her, and began an elder-brotherly cross-examination, which lasted till Lady Tranmore returned and begged him to go at once to his father. When he returned to the drawing-room, Ashe found his mother alone.
Give us your purse, and I'll make him as happy as a king," said the boy, laughing, as he looked up admiringly at our tall friend, who looked down on him with an elder-brotherly air pleasant to see.
She felt that she ought to resent his interference, but the mild entreaty of his pale blue eyes, or the elder-brotherly injunction of his smile, forbade her. "Did she ask for me?" "No." "I'll go to her," she said, and she kept herself from smiling at the long sigh of relief he gave as she passed him on the stairs. Mrs.
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