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Updated: May 15, 2025
From overhead, sunlight came down through sea-green glass. "I suppose, sir, that you'd like hot rosewater and soapsuds this morning, sir and perhaps cold salt water to finish." The negro was standing beside him. "Yes," agreed John, smiling inanely, "as you please." Any idea of ordering this bath according to his own meagre standards of living would have been priggish and not a little wicked.
She was taught some figuring, which she never used in life; some English history, of which she assimilated but the meaning of titles and coronets; some mental philosophy, which her common sense rejected as inanely inapposite to the life at hand; some moral philosophy, which her very soul spewed forth; a little embroidery, music, and dancing; and a competent knowledge of reading French.
The Seraph, mightily confused at being called a bantling, giggled inanely, so I replied again. "His name is Alexander Curzon, but mother called him The Seraph, so we jus' keep on doing it too." "Um-hm," assented the old gentleman, "and you what's your name?" "John," I replied. "Oh," he said, with an odd little smile, "and what do they keep on calling you?"
Also, without doubt, he voiced, though inanely, the innate resentment of the English peasant against the great sixteenth century robber families and their sycophants. These great families, now on their last legs and about to be torn in pieces by a host, financial and disgusting, without creed or nationality, seven times worse than they, laughed at Tom.
"Catchum rattlesnake bite?" queried Good Indian inanely, as is the habit of the onlooker when the scene shouts forth eloquently its explanation, and questions are almost insultingly superfluous. "Huh!" grunted Peppajee, disdaining further speech upon the subject, and regarded sourly the red drip. "Want me to suck it?" ventured Good Indian unenthusiastically, eying the wound. "Huh!"
The soldier had fallen back on to the seat, and was grinning inanely; the drovers were enjoying the joke beyond measure. 'Theer, lad! one of them cried. 'Tha's doon it nah! Tha'll a' to buy him a new 'at for his 'eead, soon as we get i'to Hebs'orth. ''Appen he's got no brass, suggested the other, guffawing. It was the case; the soldier had a copper or two at most.
His absurd attitude, the weak, knock-kneed manner in which his clumsy legs seemed, from the force of sheer sentiment, to bend under his weighty body, and the inanely amatory expression of his puffy countenance, would have excited most women to laughter, and Thelma was perfectly conscious of his utterly ridiculous appearance, but she was too thoroughly indignant to take the matter in a humorous light.
"Miss Van Hoyt," he said, "will you allow me to introduce my cousin, Mr. Hardross Courage?" She bowed a little absently. "Are you interested in cricket, Miss Van Hoyt?" I asked inanely. "Not in the least," she answered. "I have a list somewhere in my purse, I think of English institutions which must be studied before one can understand your country-people.
Then he smiled foolishly. "It's great, isn't it!" he remarked inanely, before thinking it necessary to remove his head. Her face was still the face of tenderness, full of yearning. It did not change. She took a handkerchief from her pocket and carefully pressed it to his cheek and chin. When she took it away, he saw that it was red.
"I am the only Robert van Buren now living," he answered. I longed to be flippant, and say that there were probably several dotted about the globe, if we only knew them; but I dared not, under those eyes absolutely dared not. Instead, I remarked inanely that I was sorry to hear his father was not alive. "He died many years ago. We have got over it," he replied.
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