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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Quite. I know enough to be entirely sure I'd rather be picturesque." "But let me assure you, that in desiring that there should be but one participant in a contest, you are striking at the very root of all successful athletic exhibitions." She shrugged her shoulders a little. "Oh, well, if you like to air your powers of irony at the expense of such painful literalness!"
"If it didn't please a woman to believe in God," he said, "and God came in Person and stood in front of her, she would run out of the room and call upon somebody to come and shoot Him for a burglar, just to prove she was right." Phyllis was shocked. Her feminine mind pounced on the gross literalness of his rhetorical figure.
"Your old friend," I said. "I believe you have a sentiment about him." She looked up at me. "Scarcely that," she replied gravely, with the literalness that often characterized her, "but he isn't a person easily forgotten.
Gradually the level or standard of right in business is bound to rise, until people have generally come to take the Golden Rule with the literalness and seriousness that the best and biggest men are already taking it.
Letters and drawings, photographs and samples of ores were piling in upon him from all parts of the country. The old phrase, indeed, was gaining a new fulfilment: the mountain was coming to Mahomet in all literalness.
It is not worth while to go into the budgetary details of this particular matrimonial venture. Other story-tellers have done that with painful literalness, and nothing is drearier than the dead accounts of the butcher and baker, necessary as they are.
But she automatically became, I retorted, a K.C.B. This seemed to puzzle the cool-eyed Lady Alicia. "That means a Knight Commander of the Bath," she said with her English literalness. "Exactly," I agreed.
"I truly hope I am not forgetting my place, sir," she murmured. "Forgetting your place?" cried Newman. "Why, you are remembering it. This is your place, you know. You are already in my service; your wages, as housekeeper, began a fortnight ago. I can tell you my house wants keeping! Why don't you take off your bonnet and stay?" "Take off my bonnet?" said Mrs. Bread, with timid literalness.
They all laughed at the extreme literalness of Archie's interpretation, which Charlie declared would probably have afforded the great poet himself unbounded satisfaction. By this time they had made the transition from the parlour to the dining-room, where, on the table just by Minnie's plate lay a letter, directed in a peculiar yet beautiful form of writing.
And there was truth in this conception of himself. There was truth, too, in Madame von Marwitz's probe. He had more than the normal English sensitiveness where ideals were concerned and more than the normal English instinct for a protective literalness.
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