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Quite the reverse. "You mean that slim hedge-fence in lavender?" I asked. "By jove, yes!" said he. "That's Lady Khorset, the wickedest woman in London, with the possible exception of Lady Virginia Pure the Bicyclyste, you know." I did know. Had I not that very morning seen in a Piccadilly window a photograph of almost all of her?
It is one of the privileges of old persons to compare the young with this or that parent. "You are flattering me. Dad used to say that I was as homely as a hedge-fence." "Now you're fishing, and I'm too old a fish to rise to such a cast." "I heard you sing in Paris a few years ago," said M. Ferraud. "Yes?" Hildegarde von Mitter wondered who this little man could be. "And you sing no more?" "No.
"Say hedge-fence and be done with it," said Perkins. "I'm glad of it. What's the use of providing a good dinner for your friends if they are going to spend all their time looking at the waitress? When I give a dinner it makes me tired to have the men afterwards speak of the waitress rather than of the puree or the birds. If any domestic is to dominate the repast at all it should be the cook."
Our little domain was shut in by the house on one side, and in other directions by a hedge-fence and a brick wall, which last was concealed or softened by shrubbery and the impaled fruit-trees already mentioned. Over all the outer region, beyond our immediate precincts, there was an abundance of foliage, tossed aloft from the near or distant trees with which that agreeable suburb is adorned.
Our little domain was shut in by the house on one side, and in other directions by a hedge-fence and a brick wall, which last was concealed or softened by shrubbery and the impaled fruit-trees already mentioned. Over all the outer region, beyond our immediate precincts, there was an abundance of foliage, tossed aloft from the near or distant trees with which that agreeable suburb is adorned.
"Certainly," said John Miles, considerably astonished. "I want to ask you a few questions." "Go ahead, Mrs. Brown." "Am I hump-backed?" "Certainly not. Who said you were?" "Just attend to my questions, if you please, stranger. Am I squint-eyed?" "Mrs. Brown must be crazy," thought Miles. However, he answered in the negative. "Am I as homely as a hedge-fence?" pursued the widow.
"Beautiful as he be?" drawled Chet, in exaggeration of bucolic twang, looking amusedly at the lank and lazy squatter himself who lay snoring on the platform before the hut. "Huh! she's a sight purtier than he be. Why, he's as humbly as a hedge-fence an' ye can see, Purt, that the girl takes after her mother." "It sure is too bad how they rig you, Pretty," laughed Jess.
She thought Eben's long, lank, broad-shouldered figure very manly, and it shocked her beyond speech to hear one of the trainers avow that, for her part, she thought his thin, Yankee face, with its big features and keen eyes, as homely as a hedge-fence. Lydia said nothing, but she wondered what people could expect. She was a greedy novel-reader, and she had shy thoughts of her own.
A man may walk through the city of New York with a face "as homely as a hedge-fence," thinking about it all the time, and wondering what people think of it, and not a man of all the throng will even see it. It is so in the world at large. Our personal peculiarities, our personal failures, our personal weaknesses, our personal affairs generally possess very little interest for others.
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