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She told us that most of her people had gone off to fight a mountain tribe, who had threatened to swoop down on this village. These complications were getting exceedingly Gilbertian in character.
Committees and sub-committees were appointed to thresh out these details, and some of them relieved the tedium by wandering into such interesting by-ways of irrelevancy as housing and land purchase, all of which, in Gilbertian phrase, "had nothing to do with the case." The Ulster group raised no objection to all this expenditure of time and energy. For they saw that it was not time wasted.
And I certainly always do." "What, always?" "Well, nearly always." The friends laughed together, and the first said, "What a pity the Gilbertian humor has gone out so; you can't adapt it to a daily need any longer without the risk of not being followed." The other sighed. "Nearly everything goes out, except duty. If that went out, I don't think I should have much pleasure in life."
But indeed it must be confessed that few people took seriously the wax and tallow proclamation. Landladies apart, however, the populace pooh-poohed the Gilbertian decree. Some regarded it as a mere precaution against a surprise visit from the Boers. But this was wrong, for the proclamation permitted the use of electric and acetylene lights at all hours.
"They're not his banners at all, they're ours, Carey banners; that's what they are!" Mother Carey had wished the same thing, but hoped that Nancy had not noticed the Gilbertian flaw in the telegram. The Charlestown house was now put immediately into the hands of several agents, for Mrs.
He is the young fellow who is something in the City; the everyday young man of the Gilbertian song, with a stick and a pipe and a half-bred black-and-tan. In every country he is at once witty and commonplace. In every country, therefore, he tends both to the vivacity and the vulgarity of slang.
He is the only poet who was also, in the European sense, on the spot; even if, in the sense of the Gilbertian song, the spot was barred. He also knew that something rather crucial was happening to Christendom; he thought it was getting unchristened. It is even a little amusing, indeed, that these two Pro-Italian poets almost conducted a political correspondence in rhyme. Mrs.
He produced one day a copy of verses, written in the Gilbertian metre, to illustrate his mental attitude, and they strike me as so neatly worded, that I will reproduce them in full. "It is possible the student of Political Economy Might otherwise have cultivated Fame, And the Scientist whose energies are given to Astronomy May sacrifice a literary name.
"So it ought to have been," Aaron declared vigorously. "What could they do but vote for you, with Manchester staring them in the face?" Maraton's expression lightened, a gleam of humour twinkled in his eyes. "After all," he murmured, "it would have been almost Gilbertian if I had been returned to Parliament with the Labour vote against me! . . . Aaron, go and ring up Peter Dale.
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