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If he was ashamed of his ingratitude she might have been ashamed of her forgiveness; but she was incorrigibly capable of liking him to be conspicuous in the landau while she was in shops or with her acquaintance.
There are some people so incorrigibly stupid and prosing, that wherever they are anxious of securing respect, silence would be their best policy. As we advance in age, it is singular what a revolution takes place in our feelings. When we arrive at maturity an unkind word is more cutting and distresses us more than any bodily suffering; in our youth it was the reverse.
It was too dusky in the closely curtained apartment to see any object so small, but he swept his hand across the carpet and picked up the key that had slipped from her nerveless fingers. Placing it beside her, he smiled and said, "You are incorrigibly careless. Are you not afraid to tax my curiosity so severely, and tempt me so pertinaciously, by strewing your keys in my path?
So there we stood, two Kansas editors, and an Illinois congressman, while the uniforms of the continent brushed by us, in uniforms ourselves, after a fashion, but looking conspicuously civilian, and incorrigibly middle western. Medill in his pea-green hunting outfit looked more soldierly than we.
Many professional politicians who had no objection to such talk in itself, glared and sneered when the President used it because forsooth, it might estrange a vote. Then, too, Lincoln had none of the social finesse that might have adapted his manner to various classes. He was always incorrigibly the democrat pure and simple.
But I feel myself incorrigibly lazy, and have no such system of collecting and arranging facts or of making the most of my materials as you and many of our hard-working naturalists possess in perfection. With best wishes, believe me, dear Darwin, yours most sincerely, Down, Bromley, S.E. Tuesday, February, 1866.
'And, said she, 'we must be very good friends you funny creature, you and I. I'm allowed to be the most saucy old woman in Derbyshire quite incorrigibly privileged; and nobody is ever affronted with me, so I say the most shocking things constantly.
'No, Miss Rylance thought there would be too much walking for her or for Pinet. I have been at the Abbey all day, getting up my arrears of correspondence. This fine weather has made me incorrigibly idle. After I had written about a score of letters I thought myself entitled to a little rest and refreshment, so I strolled over here to tell you some news and to ask you for a cup of tea.
I wish either of them had given me a history of what is doing in the office, and you of what is doing in the family. The girls I know to be incorrigibly lazy, and therefore expect nothing from them. The time was but I have no leisure to reflect. Thine, Albany, August, eleven o'clock at night, 1786. I have this day your letter by my express.
This was Miss Grahame, examining the last trick. She put the ace, face down, before this capricious whist-player, who, however, adhered to her statement, saying incorrigibly: "Well, look at it!" "I only see a shadow," said Mr. Pellew. But it wasn't a shadow. A shadow moves. Explanation came, on revision of the ace's antecedents.
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