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Sitting very straight, Valmond rode steadily down towards the old soldier. The sergeant had drawn notice as he came up the street, and people came to their doors, and children followed the grey, dust-covered veteran, in his last-century uniform. He came as far as the Louis Quinze, and then, looking on up the road, he saw the white horse, the cocked hat, the white waistcoat, and the long grey coat.
"The ascent from the kitchens is by an inclined plane, a broad roadway, up which the mammoth triumphs of last-century culinary skill were hauled on trucks, several of which vehicles stand near the foot of the way.
Glasse, and on trial was found so unique and agreeable a variety to our modern fancies that with some little changes to suit our present ideas I give the last-century dainty. If you have any pretty-shaped little tin dishes, without fluting, to mould and bake them in, they are very little trouble to make.
But it's a better style in horticulture than in literature; I prefer one of the long-drawn blue-green Colonna vistas, with a maimed and mossy-coated garden goddess at the end, to the finest possible quotation from a last-century classic. Perhaps the best thing there is the old orangery with its trees in fantastic terra-cotta tubs.
Of all the old things I had seen in England this exhibited mind of Miss Searle's seemed to me the oldest, the most handed down and taken for granted; fenced and protected as it was by convention and precedent and usage, thoroughly acquainted with its subordinate place. I felt as if I were talking with the heroine of a last-century novel.
Burton's eyes through dashing about under Mr. Burton's nose in a pitiable little last-century used car that squeaked? Todd gripped the wheel tighter and gave me gas. "You missed that storm sewer by an inch!" she exclaimed. "My aim is somewhat wild yet," he admitted. "Perhaps I'll get the next one." "Jay-eems!" "My dear, we have a horn, remember."
When Gogin and I were taking our Easter holiday this year we went, among other places, to Ypres. We put up at the Hotel Tete d'Or and found it exquisitely clean, comfortable and cheap, with a charming old-world, last-century feeling. It was Good Friday, and we were to dine maigre; this was so clearly de rigueur that we did not venture even the feeblest protest.
I think I could make something out of him; but he wants all sorts of rum things last-century memoirs, out-of-the-way ones everything about Montaigne first editions Lord knows what! I say, Barbier, I dare say he'd buy your books. What'll you let me have them for? 'Diantre! Not for your heart's blood, my young man. It's like your impudence to ask. You could sell more if you knew more, you think?
'I was not in the least aware that he was such a man, murmured Somerset, looking wistfully after the minister.... 'Whatever you may have done, I fear that I have grievously wounded a worthy man's heart from an idle wish to engage in a useless, unbecoming, dull, last-century argument. 'Not dull, she murmured, 'for it interested me. Somerset accepted her correction willingly.
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