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"You'd better come and dine with us to-night, Mallory," said Fenton, pausing as they were about to leave. "Penelope and I are due at the Albert Hall later on, but we shall be home fairly early and you can entertain Nan in our absence. It's purely a ballad concert, so she doesn't care to go with us it's not high-brow enough!" with a twinkle in Nan's direction. She glanced at Peter swiftly.
"For God's sake, don't be so high-brow and altruistic." "How about it, Frank?" Billy said, turning to Merrill. "Well," said Frank slowly, "I don't exactly know how to answer that question. I don't know what you mean by the word right. I take it that you mean what our right would be if these flying-maidens permitted themselves to become our friends.
"My poor, innocent Ban! If you were to try and talk books and poetry, 'Shakespeare and the musical glasses, to the average society girl, as you call her, what do you suppose would happen?" "Why, I suppose I'd give myself away as an ignoramus." "Heaven save you for a woolly lambkin! The girl would flee, shrieking, and issue a warning against you as a high-brow, a prig, and a hopeless bore.
It is a splendid thing that this serious time has also aroused the poets, the thinkers and artists as political and diplomatic advisers, and we should not let ourselves be crowded out of this profession, for which, thanks to our minds, we are not less fitted than the high-brow Lords and Counts.
Rather was it a realistic memory of what such war means that made the new America eager to keep the peace as long as it might. There was observable, it is true, a certain amount of rather silly Pacifist sentiment, especially in those circles which the Russians speak of as "Intelligenzia," and Americans as "high-brow."
She, the yearningly friendly, sympathetic, sensitive, praise-craving Sylvia, came to be known, half respected and half disliked, as proud and clever, and "high-brow," and offish, and conceited, and so "queer" that she cared nothing for the ordinary pleasures of ordinary girls.
I don't mean it in the high-brow sense of people who live in unsuccessful plays and garden cities, but in the ordinary common-sense way of the world. Here you are, young, strong, educated, intelligent " "I'm not strong," said Doggie. "Oh, shucks! A month's exercise would make you as strong as a mule. Here you are what the blazes are you going to do with yourself?"
We had a conference after the dress-rehearsal, and our friend Mr Goble told him in no uncertain words in the whole course of my experience I have never heard words less uncertain that his damned rotten high-brow false-alarm of a show I am quoting Mr Goble would have to be rewritten by alien hands. And these are them! On the right, alien right hand. On the left, alien left hand.
She had said "I'm done" quite as unconsciously as he had let slip words inadmissable in polite converse. "It isn't piety done up in homoeopathic pills the world wants," she went on. "No, it's punch," he broke in; "and what's the use of dickering with a little two-for-a-cent high-brow, superior, exclusive, self-righteous rag of a daily that will reach only a handful of sissy people?
"She never has time for me any more; I'm not high-brow enough for her. She's getting on like a streak, you know, exhibiting everywhere." "I know she is. She gave me a cast of her faun's head. I think it is lovely. Aunt Margaret looks well." "She is, I guess, but don't let's waste all our valuable time talking about the family. Let's talk about us you and me.
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