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The rich clothing became him well, and had just a hint of foreignness, as if commonly he were more roughly garbed. Which was indeed the case, for he was new back from the Western Seas, and had celebrated his home-coming with a brave suit.
This new, strange, solitary life, cut off from her adulatory society, both by the shock that made the abyss and by the utter foreignness, threw her in upon her natural forces, recasting her, and thinning away her memory of her past days, excepting girlhood, into the remote. She lived with her girlhood as with a simple little sister.
"You think it very clever, my distinguished friends, to discuss me before my face," commented the old picture-dealer indifferently. He fingered the bright-colored decorations on his breast, looking down at them with absent eyes. After a moment he added, "and to show your in-ti-mate knowledge of my character." Only its careful correctness betrayed the foreignness of his speech.
"It is very good of you, as always," said the old man. "No, I am not well. Yes, I am SEEK." "Ask monsieur to sit down," said Mademoiselle Nioche. "Garcon, bring a chair." "Will you do us the honor to SEAT?" said M. Nioche, timorously, and with a double foreignness of accent.
We wanted something thoroughly and uncompromisingly foreign foreign from top to bottom foreign from center to circumference foreign inside and outside and all around nothing anywhere about it to dilute its foreignness nothing to remind us of any other people or any other land under the sun. And lo! In Tangier we have found it.
It would be better to give up the word 'rational' altogether than to get into a merely verbal fight about who has the best right to keep it. Perhaps the words 'foreignness' and 'intimacy, which I put forward in my first lecture, express the contrast I insist on better than the words 'rationality' and 'irrationality' let us stick to them, then.
If there was any warm feeling below the unruffled surface of the girl's deliberate eyes while gazing on him, it was that he who had saved her brother must be nearly brother himself, yet was not quite, yet must be loved, yet not approached. He was her brother's brother-in-arms, brother-in-heart, not hers, yet hers through her brother. His French name rescued him from foreignness.
This is mercy unalloyed and purest bounty; it is light for the world and all its peoples; it is harmony and fellowship, and love and solidarity; indeed it is compassion and unity, and the end of foreignness; it is the being at one, in complete dignity and freedom, with all on earth.
Without replying to my greeting, he asked: "Is this the road to Kilburn?" with a faint flavour of foreignness in his words. "I think it is," I replied, and I noticed as he lifted his hand to thank me that one finger was missing and that the hand itself was cruelly twisted and scarred.
She had been a little vexed that Peter had not administered more of a push toward the Hôtel de Hollande, clear as it had become to her now that there was a foreignness in Peter which was not to be counted on and which made him speak of English affairs and even of English domestic politics as local and even "funny."
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