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The respectful, highfalutin gallantry that is the key-note of the correspondence recalls the correspondence that presently was exchanged between Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, and the octogenarian Earl of Peterborough. Some typical passages from the letters to "My dear Mrs.
"Well, give us your highfalutin' opinion ov it!" Anna sipped a spoonful and remarked: "It might be worse." "Aye, it's worse where there's nown, but on yer oath now d'ye think Sooty Ann washed her han's?" "Good clane dhirt will poison no one, Jamie." "Thrue, but this isn't clane dhirt, it's soot bitther soot!" It was agreed to pass the O'Hare delection.
"Why, he said it happened in Kennettown." "Well, now!" said Mrs. Hamilton, surprised. "Where did you ever get hold of that old name? I didn't suppose a soul but some of our old folks remembered that. Why, Newtonville wasn't named that but six months. Folks got mad at the Kennetts for being so highfalutin' over having the town named after them, and so 'twas changed back."
There are two or three extant school orations which likewise exhibit him in the role of a fervid eulogist. The rhetoric of them is very highfalutin, and the flattery would be nauseating if one did not remember that it was largely a matter of fashion. Custom required that a prince be addressed in the language of adulation, and nothing in that line was too extravagant for the taste of the time.
Accept, oh, Queen, this crown and sceptre, and with them the assurance of our alleged loyalty, our humble submission, and our majestic royalty! I am a little at a loss for any thing further to say, as I can't think of any more highfalutin words, so you may as well put on your crown, and let's have some fun."
"Oh, I know just how I want that; almost exactly like my room at Aunt Alice's, but with a few more of the sort of things I had in my room at Aunt Isabel's. I do like pretty things, papa." "That's right, my child, I'm glad you do; and I think your idea of pretty things is not merely a taste for highfalutin gimcracks."
You'd have been soaked before you got to Harris's. How be you? I ain't seen you since that highfalutin party up to Crewe's." "It's very kind of you to let me come in, Mr. Jenney." "But I have a rain-coat and a boot, and I really ought to be going on." Here Victoria produced the rain-coat from under the seat. The garment was a dark blue, and Mr.
"I haven't been inside a church for many a year and it's too late to begin now." "That's no argument at all," said Quincy. "But my principal reason for wishing you to go is so you can see the people that your hospital is going to benefit one of these days." "But these preachers use such highfalutin' language, and so many 'firstlies' and 'secondlies' I lose my hold on the text." "Mr.
"Look here," Ashley said, with a new inspiration; "I put it to you I put it to you as a man simply as a man without any highfalutin principles whatever. Suppose I'd done what you've done and given my bottom dollar " "But I haven't." "Well, no matter!
Gwynne would not look at his wife. "Let me see, Mr. Sleighter, your farm, you say, with buildings, is worth about six thousand to sixty-five hundred. Mine is worth from fifty-five hundred to six thousand. I will take your offer and pay the difference." "Oh, come off your perch," said Mr. Sleighter. "You're doin' the highfalutin' Vere de Vere act now. Listen to me.
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