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I have a possibly foolish idea that if we can find a certain man we will learn something about Arthur Benham. I'll tell you about it." But before he could begin the door-bell jangled. Ste. Marie scowled. "A caller would come singularly malapropos just now," said he. "I've half a mind not to go to the door. I want to talk this thing over with you."
"The plain English of which is that, whether he approves or condemns, you are determined to carry out this new plan? Take care, Beulah; remember the old adage about 'cutting off your nose to spite your face." "Rather malapropos. Dr. Asbury," said she indifferently. "I am an old man, Beulah, and know something of life and the world." "Nay, George; why dissuade her from this plan?
Then Lydia Rhodes made an immediate request of Truesdale to act as escort; he was her third. She took, in this malapropos manoeuvre, the same delight that a child experiences through the consciousness of being engaged in some mischievous wrong. "Lunch with us at Fields," she directed him, "and then we shall get around in time to see Jane wiping off her tables and putting away her crockery.
"Ah! before instead of after, when I only see I have said something malapropos," said Ethel. "I must go and see about the children," said Flora; "if the tea comes while I am gone, will you make it, Ritchie?" "Flora despairs of me," said Ethel. "I don't," said Richard. "Have you forgotten how to put in a pin yet?" "No; I hope not."
Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction."
The odd, we might say humorous, feature of the invention is that nature, being as it were cornered and compelled to respond, will answer nothing except to repeat what is said in her ear! The phonograph may be defined as a mechanical parrot. Unlike the living bird, however, it never makes answers malapropos. It never deviates from the original text.
Then, on another occasion, he breaks in upon the lofty spiritualities of our Lord's final discourse to His disciples, with the malapropos request, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. And so here, to the man who believed in his eyesight, and did not easily apprehend much else, Jesus puts this question, 'Where is the bread to come from for all these people?
So she turned away from all Peggy's asides and signs; but she made one or two very malapropos answers to what was said; and at last, seized with a bright idea, she exclaimed, "Poor, sweet Carlo! I'm forgetting him. Come downstairs with me, poor ittie doggie, and it shall have its tea, it shall!"
Hence I am a young miss who has no talent, except for appreciating Balzac, caramels, Diavolini, vanille soufflé, lobster-croquettes, and Strauss' waltzes; though envious people do say that I have a decided genius for 'malapropos historic quotations, which you know are regarded as unpardonable offences by those who cannot comprehend them. Come here, St. John, and let me rub your fur the wrong way.
After all, I must have been mistaken. There is no shadow of disappointment or mortification near him. He is smiling with some friendliness. "You must never mind what I say," I continue, dragging my wicker chair along the shortly-shorn sward a little nearer to him. "Never! nobody ever does; I am a proverb and a by-word for my malapropos speeches.
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