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Yet it was, incongruously, not indifference, but a refinement of delicacy that had kept him from asking the sacristan, who would of course immediately have recognised his description of her, whether she had been seen at other hours.
This time its new policy remained at fever heat for over three years and only cooled down when a British man-of-war captured the incongruously named Olive Branch, in which Ira Allen was trying to run the blockade from Ostend with twenty thousand muskets and other arms which he represented as being solely for the annual drill of the Vermont militia.
He smiled kindly when he saw Rufe. Incongruously enough, he had a hammer in his hand. He was going down the ravine, tapping the rocks with it. And Rufe thought he looked for all the world like some over-grown, demented woodpecker. As Rufe still stood staring, the old gentleman held out his hand with a cordial gesture. "Come here, my little man!" he said in a kind voice. Rufe hesitated.
Folly stopped in her tracks. Her face went suddenly livid with rage. "No lydy!" she cried in the most directly expressive of all idioms. "If I wasn't a perfect lydy, I'd slap your blankety blank little blank." At each word of the virile repartee of Cockneydom coming so incongruously from those soft lips, Lewis's heart went down and down in big, jolting bumps.
Above the last bridge the Jhelum broadens out into a stately river, controlled at one side by the banked walk known as the Bund, with the Club House upon it and the line of houseboats beneath. Here the visitors flutter up and down and exchange the gossip, the bridge appointments, the little dinners that sit so incongruously on the pure Orient that is Kashmir. She would not be here.
He was lean and dark and shaven; his black hair hung forward in two masses, smooth and straight and square; he had sorrowful, bitter eyes, and a bitter, sorrowful mouth, the long Irish upper lip fine and hard drawn, while the lower lip quivered incongruously, pouted and protested and recanted, was sceptical and sensitive and tender. His short, high nose had wide yet fastidious nostrils.
A meagre, commonplace, almost comic little man. She saw behind him his trite and colourless antecedents; she saw before him and her the future, trite and colourless too, but for the extraneous glitter of the millions that surrounded him as incongruously as a halo would have done. He was an angel, of course; he was good; but he was only that; there were no varieties, no graces, no mysteries.
Ages later, coming into the dim hall she saw the Martinique elevator boy standing incongruously in the light of the stained-glass window. "Is there any mail for us?" she asked. "Up-stays, madame." The switchboard squawked abominably and Gloria waited while he ministered to the telephone.
"He doesn't expect the sunsets and public crises to stand up and be looked at when he reads about them!" So she stayed just where she was. As she stayed, incongruously, a joke out of an old Punch came into her head not at all an esthetic one. It was a picture of a furious woman brandishing a broom, while the tips of her husband's boots showed under the bed-foot.
And Drury Lane incidents were of a world so incongruously remote from the house in Eaton Square and her grace's clever aquiline ivory face and his lordship with his quiet bearing and his unromantic and elderly, tired fineness.
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