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"How are you to-day, Majah, sah?" he asked while his puckered and wrinkled face tried to smile. Jud was chameleon. Long experience had taught him to drop instinctively into the mannerism even the dialect of those he hoped to cajole. With the well-bred he could speak glibly, and had airs himself. With the illiterate and the low-bred, he could out-Caliban the herd of them.
It was not long now before the "style pompadour" began to make itself shown with regard to garden design the exaggeration of an undeniable grace by an affected mannerism. All the rococco details which had been applied to architecture now began to find their duplication in the garden rockeries weird fantasies built of plaster and even shells of the sea.
I think I find the proof that he had it, and that of the very highest and subtlest kind, in the fact that I can nowhere put my finger on it, and say it is here or there. I do not mean that things in themselves artificial may not be highly agreeable. We learn by degrees to take a pleasure in the mannerism of Gibbon and Johnson. It is something like reading Latin as a living language.
Pantin entered. "Priscilla, will you do me a favor?" "Abram," reproachfully, "have I ever failed you? What is it?" "The next time you have something going on here I want you to invite Kate Prentice." Mrs. Pantin recoiled. "What!" "Don't squawk like that!" said Mr. Pantin, irritably. "You do it often, and it's an annoying mannerism." "Do you quite realize what you are asking?" his wife demanded.
How perfect his style is may be judged from the fact that it never curdles into mannerism, and thus absolutely eludes imitation.
The book is a collection of Lectures, and we now know how entirely Carlyle loathed that kind of utterance, how much he felt the restraints and limits it involved. And for that reason, the book is the simplest and most easily legible of his works, with the least of his mannerism and the largest concessions to the written language of sublunary mortals.
She, too, knew too well Julien's way of speaking not to know that that mannerism, half-mocking, half-sentimental, always served him to prepare phrases more grave, and against the emotion of which her fear of appearing a dupe rose in advance. She crossed her arms upon her breast, and after a pause she continued, in a grave voice: "You are going away?"
She learned with difficulty, like a Bourbon; but many years' experience had at last convinced her that her daughter's occasional mocking mannerism had to be put up with.
He spent his time in long walks alone and, whenever they were possible, in the old evenings with Mr. Fargus. In Mabel's absence he and Effie were much thrown together. Mabel frequently came upon them thus together, and when she did she had a mannerism that somehow seemed to suggest "catching" them together. And sometimes she used that expression.
Indeed, Michelangelo's new system of decoration bordered dangerously upon the barocco style, and contained within itself the germs of a vicious mannerism. It would be captious and unjust to push this criticism home.
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