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Hunch Dorrigan was stealing catlike down the stairs, his bloated vicious face leering threateningly at her over the railing. "You old she-wolf!" roared that elegant young man. "Where's His Nibs?" Aunt Agatha moistened her dry lips and, gurgling fearfully, fainted. When at length she became conscious again. Hunch, glowering fiercely, was returning from a futile chase.
Rollo looked, and saw that the ladies and gentlemen on the broad walk before them were moving to one side and the other, to make room for a most elegant little omnibus, drawn by six goats, that were harnessed before it like horses.
Bernard died, only forty-eight years old, March 6, 1850. Charles de Bernard was a realist, a pupil of Balzac. He surpasses his master, nevertheless, in energy and limpidity of composition. His style is elegant and cultured.
But, John, if you would only go, I would be more proud of you than even anything and all of my elegant dress. Now, John, dear, please say yes," and she laid her hand on his arm, and looked up, as she vainly hoped, irresistibly in his face. But John shook off her hand impatiently, not deigning even to respond to her look. "Silence gives consent, and you will go," she said.
And a society that has attained its end in all possible culture, entire refinement in manners, in tastes, in the art of elegant intellectual and luxurious living is there nothing pathetic in that? Where is the primeval, heroic force that made the joy of living in the rough old uncivilized days?
"She works a great deal worse than little Blanche," said Miss Winter, "and though it may not be the fashion to say so in these days, I consider good needlework far more important than accomplishments. Well, then, Margaret, I should wish you only just to look at her writing." And Miss Winter opened a French exercise-book, certainly containing anything but elegant specimens of penmanship.
"Invite them to the house when you choose," said Mr. Forbes, hospitably, if curtly. "Oh, no, sir," said Dotty, quickly. "They wouldn't fit in." Mr. Forbes chuckled. "You have a sense of the fitness of things, Miss Rosy. Why wouldn't they fit in?" "Why, they're plain people. Not grand and elegant like you." "Oho! So I'm grand and elegant, am I? And are you grand and elegant, too?"
There could be no harm, certainly, in these grave compliments; but yet they charmed and frightened her, and to find favour, for reasons however obscure, in the eyes of this elegant, serious, and most unfortunate young gentleman, was a giddy elevation, was almost an apotheosis, for a country maid. But she was to be no more exercised; for Mr.
We deeply regret, in the interest of elegant manners, that these arguments are not more generally known. Heaven grant, therefore, that our book may have an immense success, as women will obtain this advantage from it, that they will be treated as they deserve, that is, as queens. In this respect, love is much superior to marriage, it is proud of indiscreet sayings and doings.
Mallet's Life of Bacon has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; but Mallet's mind was not comprehensive enough to embrace the vast extent of Lord Verulam's genius and research. Dr.
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