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Braxton, on the other hand, would let slip no opportunity for sneering at Maltby's work 'gimcrack, as he called it. This was not good for Maltby. Different men, different methods. 'The Rape of the Lock' was 'gimcrack, if you care to call it so; but it was a delicate, brilliant work; and so, I repeat, was Maltby's 'Ariel. Absurd to compare Maltby with Pope? I am not so sure.
"Bound to say you'd want a rope ten times as long as that one up here, and if you had it no gimcrack of a grapnel like that would take hold of the smooth rock bottom." "Well, what else can I do? We seem to be helpless," said Lynton. Briscoe replied, in a most determined voice: "Order out the oars, sir, if you don't want the boat to be swamped and your bones to be picked by these fiends of fish."
There was nothing gimcrack to be seen, no one-and-elevenpenny ornaments, no imitations of any kind; despite its sloping roof and its whitewashed walls, it was self-evidently a lady's room, and Janet's admiration was unfeigned. "My dear, it's a lamb! I love your touches of scarlet. Dear me, you've quite a view! I shall have sloping walls when I change my room. They are ever so picturesque.
Where is the rest of the suite, young man?" "Just behind you, sir," Burton pointed out, "up against the wall." Mr. Sherwell turned and looked at a miserable collection of gimcrack articles piled up against the wall behind him. Then he consulted the catalogue. "One mahogany dining-table, two sideboards, one butler's tray, twelve chairs. These the chairs?" he asked, lifting one up.
Towards the end of the morning a gap was made, and through it they held the following conversation. "I've been stopping with my cousin at Sawston." "M'm." "It was quite exciting. The air rang with battle. About two-thirds of the masters have lost their heads, and are trying to produce a gimcrack copy of Eton.
Nevertheless, looking upon it, one could guess that once upon a time it must have been a face with a mobile, almost imperial, outline, perhaps almost insolently striking, the arrogant countenance of a conqueror. When gazing at it one gazed at the ruin, not of a cottage or of a gimcrack villa, but at the ruins of a palace.
They must live in gimcrack suburban villas, and "give parties." They must see what is going on at the theatres. Every farthing is spent so soon as earned, sometimes before. The husband does not insure his life, and the wife runs into debt. If the man died to-morrow, he would leave his wife and children paupers.
They are building gimcrack palaces, gingerbread cottages, structures which the first full blast of life will level to the ground. These women are not peculiar to city or to country. They are scattered nation-wide. You find them on farms and in mansions, in offices and in academic halls.
Since, however, I hope so to order my remaining days of life as never to be obliged to return to these gimcrack regions, there is no inducement for withholding the name of the Merle Blanc at Monte Carlo, a quite unpretentious place of entertainment that well deserves its name white blackbirds being rather scarcer here than elsewhere.
Despite his former protestations of fair play, I now began to nurse a suspicion of this befousled little gimcrack; but I'd not thought that Tommy would grow a distemper of any magnitude until the professor, rubbing his hands, announced: "Mon Capitaine says we do not sail for an hour. Let us take a small boat and fish around the mangroves! Maybe a snapper, eh? or a sheep's-head!" I was silent.
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