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Here you are. Miss ... Mrs Anthony'll be coming on board presently. Just give me a call when you see the cab." Then, without noticing the gloominess of the mate's countenance he went in again. Not a friendly word, not a professional remark, or a small joke, not as much as a simple and inane "fine day." Nothing. Just turned about and went in.
The girls were so silly, the men so inane, and the things they said so mawkish and colourless! Their compliments sickened me so, that I was just hungry to hide myself. But at last came what I want to tell you. "One morning, after what seemed a long night's dreamless sleep, I awoke; but it was much too early to rise; so I lay thinking or more truly, I hope, being thought into, as Mr. Wingfold says.
In this shabby room, with nothing to see but the walnut-tree, the dark leaves growing against the walls, and the almost deserted road beyond them, a somewhat lively and frivolous woman, accustomed to the amusements and stir of Paris, used to sit all day long, day after day, and for the most part of the time alone, though she received tiresome and inane visits which led her to think her loneliness preferable to empty tittle-tattle.
These sentences of banishment were never, in my knowledge, delivered against an artist; such would, I believe, have been illegal; but the odd and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these in Barbizon; and some were sulky, and some blatant and inane; but one and all entered at once into the spirit of the association.
A hundred deaths, all distressing, have been sworn upon me." Charles Abbott's expression was inane, but, correcting that statement, he said to himself, "A hundred and one." La Clavel yawned, opening to their fullest extent her lips on superb teeth and a healthy throat. "I have, at least, a sponge, a basin of water," she proclaimed indirectly.
"'Tis a good sign." "Yes; a sign I am growing inane and respectable." "I can imagine you one about as easily as the other." "That is bitter-sweet; a compliment and a flout."
The quartet at the table immediately in front of us had been making inane doggerel rhymes upon the names of their workmates, telling riddles, and exchanging nasty stories with great gusto and frequent fits of wild laughter. Far over, under the windows, the stripper girls were tuning up their voices preparatory to the late-afternoon concert, soon to begin.
They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion, will, no doubt, frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and awawkwardnessthey will look round for poetry, and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be permitted to assume that title.
George remarked sweetly: "Really, don't you think our Lucinda is looking remarkably well this fall?" It seemed a very harmless, inane, well-meant question. Poor Mrs. George might well be excused for feeling bewildered over the effect. Romney gathered his long legs together, stood up, and swept the unfortunate speaker a crushing Penhallow bow of state.
So she lingered on under the pretty porch, while through the gaily-lighted dormer-window of the coffee-room sounds of laughter, of calls for "Sally" and for beer, of tapping of mugs, and clinking of dice, mingled with Sir Percy Blakeney's inane and mirthless laugh.
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