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I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.
The periodicals were not of very recent date, and the piano was somewhat out of tune, but I was so delighted with the shady, flower-bordered courtyard and the comfort and apparent cleanliness of the club as a whole that I felt no disposition to be hypercritical. To find such a haven of refuge at all in a city like Santiago was unexpected good fortune.
Florence was breezy and frank, her sister quaint and not given much to speech. Madeline thought she would like to have these women near her if she were ill or in trouble. And she reproached herself for a fastidiousness, a hypercritical sense of refinement that could not help distinguishing what these women lacked. "Can you ride?" Florence was asking.
But don't think me hypercritical, Isabel," he added. "Even now I can usually manage to part from you without reeling, faint with hunger, down your front steps and collapsing at their feet I should say foot." "I'm extremely relieved to hear you say so," replied the girl.
Now she told herself that she would not be absurdly hypercritical, and, as it happened, he had given her the lead that she desired. "I should think that you would have had to give them more attention as wheat is going down," she remarked. Hawtrey looked at her with an air of reproach. "It must be nearly three weeks since I have seen you, and now you expect me to talk of farming."
"You say, 'Ah, Doctor! and shake hands, you know," said this hypercritical observer, "and, ten to one, he says something about St. Antipas directly, you know, or 'Tell him to call on Dr. Linford at the rectory adjoining St. Antipas I'm always there at eleven, or 'Yes, quite true, the bishop said to me, "My dear Linford, we depend on you in this matter," or telling how Mrs.
In his personal expenses Vanderbilt usually begrudged what he looked upon as superfluous expense. The plainest of black clothes he wore, and he never countenanced jewelry. He scanned the table bill with a hypercritical eye. Even the sheer necessities of his physical condition could not induce him to pay out money for costly prescriptions.
The Cardinal accepted the conditions. The next day all the literary coxcombs of Rome crowded to the levee of the hypercritical prelate to learn his opinion of the poet, whose style was without precedent. The Cardinal declared, with a justice which posterity has sanctioned, that "Salvator's poetry was full of splendid passages, but that, as a whole, it was unequal."
It had all the charm of a new and quaint field of exploration and research, and there was nothing in it to offend his hypercritical judgment. I have a shrewd suspicion that Mary Magdalen's cooking played no mean part in his satisfaction. His prowess as a trencherman aroused the admiration and respect of Fernolia, who waited on table.
Was it desperation, defiance, an indifferent resolve to give him one last chance or his own hypercritical fancy? They were still talking when Barbara was announced. "Gracious! Is it eight?" Agnes cried, looking at her watch. "I thought it was only seven. We must fly. Dick's taking me to a revue." "Won't you wait for a cocktail?" Eric asked. "By the way, I don't think you know Lady Barbara Neave.
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