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Badman would not allow, by any means, that this should be called pride, but rather neatness, handsomeness, comeliness, cleanliness, &c., neither would he allow that following of fashions was anything else, but because he would not be proud, singular, and esteemed fantastical by his neighbours.
So home, and we dined above in our dining room, the first time since it was new done, and in the afternoon I thought to go to the French church; but finding the Dutch congregation there, and then finding the French congregation's sermon begun in the Dutch, I returned home, and up to our gallery, where I found my wife and Gosnell, and after a drowsy sermon, we all three to my aunt Wight's, where great store of her usuall company, and here we staid a pretty while talking, I differing from my aunt, as I commonly do, in our opinion of the handsomeness of the Queen, which I oppose mightily, saying that if my nose be handsome, then is her's, and such like.
Dissipated as Boyne's look was, he had a natural handsomeness which, with good care of himself personally, well-appointed clothes, a cheerful manner, and witty talk, made him palatable to careless-living Dublin. This Dublin knew little of Boyne's present domestic life.
They crossed to the farther side of the river, where the influence of the Gothic monument threw a distinction even over the Parisian smartnesses the municipal rule and measure, the importunate symmetries, the "handsomeness" of everything, the extravagance of gaslight, the perpetual click on the neat bridges.
And this beauty will be something more than mere prettiness or handsomeness of face. The man will see the beauty of the woman and she his not only in the face and features, but in the presence, bearing, and carriage, in the gestures, movements, and behaviour. Behind the outward aspect he will see the inward spirit, the real self, the true nature, the radiant personality.
He found Rose tying up her music at one end of the piano, while Langham was preparing to shut up the keyboard. There was something appeasing in the girl's handsomeness. Mr. Wynnstay laid down his airs, paid her various compliments, and led her off to Lady Charlotte. Langham stood by the piano, lost in a kind of miserable dream. Mrs. Darcy fluttered up to him. 'Oh, Mr.
Madame Timotea Ortiz, the proprietress of the hotel in which the game of Fox-in-the-Morning had been played out, told of the coming of the two guests to her house. "To my house they came," said she "one senor, not quite old, and one senorita of sufficient handsomeness. They desired not to eat or to drink not even of my aguardiente, which is the best.
"We understand each other, don't we, my girl?" "That's all right, uncle. I know what you mean," returned Miss Sellars, with equal handsomeness. "Bring him round again when he's feeling better," added Uncle Gutton, "and we'll have another look at him." "What you want," advised the watery-eyed young man on shaking hands with me, "is complete rest and a tombstone."
Margaret had joined the party in the evening. The recollection of the plentiful luxury of all the arrangements, the stately handsomeness of the furniture, the size of the house, the peaceful, untroubled ease of the visitors all came vividly before her, in strange contrast to the present time. The smooth sea of that old life closed up, without a mark left to tell where they had all been.
"No, Jane, an' it's such a splendid one. That lovely grocer man " "Ugh!" interrupted the woman, with a derisive shrug of her shoulders. "You're the beatin'est child for seein' handsomeness where 'tain't." "Oh, I 'member you don't like him much, 'cause onct he give short measure o' flour, or somethin', but he is good an' I didn't mean purty, an' just listen!"
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