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Oh, the kind of man that ordinary women will rave over and you will dislike. A sort of professional dealer in sharp speeches, that goes about the world with a lackadaisical manner and a handsome ballet-girl dangling on to his coat-tails." "Do you mean that there is really a ballet-girl, or simply that you feel cross and want to imitate the sharp speeches?" "The Lord defend me!
She was conscious of a growing inclination to prove to Graydon that she was neither "weak nor lackadaisical." The reproach of these, his words, haunted her and rankled in her memory. If she could only make him respect her if she could only win such a look of admiration as she had seen upon his face when he first recognized Miss Wildmere at the party, it would be a triumph indeed.
These evil effects are taught, not in a lackadaisical way, with sentiment or religious duty as a basis. They are taught as FACTS. Facts appeal to the mind, and they persist in their effect in later life, when moral suasion and religious appeals are forgotten. As a matter of fact, drunkenness, like dirt, is mainly an accompaniment of poverty and a sad, hopeless life.
She was a lackadaisical young person of eighteen, with pale sandy ringlets and a cold-boiled-veal complexion; but he thought her a creature of another sphere, and his heart shivered with a strange, delicious sense of worship.
He had seen Eugene around town, knew no harm of him except that he was lackadaisical and rather moody. "Send him in to see me some day," he replied noncommittally. "I might do something for him." "I'd certainly be much obliged to you if you would," said Witla. "He is not doing much good as it is now," and the two men parted. He went home and told Eugene.
A wholesome smile dawned on Duncan's face as he encountered the blank blue stare of a young man whose very smooth and very bright red face was admirably set off by semi-evening dress. "Great Scott!" he cried, warmly pressing the lackadaisical hand that drifted into his. "Willy Bartlett after all these years!" A sudden animation replaced the vacuous stare of the blue eyes. "Duncan!" he stammered.
The question now uppermost is, When will breakfast be ready?" cried the young girl, laughing, in a childlike enjoyment of her sister's wonder, and a loving woman's anticipation of triumph over the man who had once called her "weak and lackadaisical." She responded warmly to the embrace of Mrs. Muir, who added, "You have come back to us a princess.
The guests were four a Mrs. Bevis and her three daughters all invalidish persons, the mother somewhat lackadaisical, the girls with a look of unwilling spinsterhood.
Every now and then Nature says to him, 'Felix, you are old! And Felix goes to bed, and says it's his nerves." "I suppose he is to be trusted to keep his word about writing to Paris?" pursued the lawyer. "Oh, yes! He may delay doing it but he will do it. In spite of his lackadaisical manner, he has moments of energy that would surprise you.
She sounded half-asleep politely lackadaisical. "Gone West," he explained shortly. "His letters became fewer. We joined up together in the ranks. You know all about my end of it. I suppose it was my mother's democratic Americanism that made me do that. We got drafted into different regiments. After the fighting had been going for a year, he stopped corresponding.
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