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Do New-Yorkers control the capital, rule the politics, build the palaces, direct the newspapers, furnish the entertainment, manufacture the literature, set the pace in society? Even the socialists and mobocrats are not native. Successive invaders, as in Rome, overrun and occupy the town. "No, Mr. Burnett, I have left the existing New York. How queer it is to think about it.
He tossed up his hand with one of his fatalistic Latin gestures, drawing the attention of the passers-by to the man and woman talking so earnestly. For this reason, and because she was losing her self-command, she hastened to take leave of him. Arrived at home, it gave her no comfort to find Charles Conquest the most spick and span of middle-aged New-Yorkers waiting in the drawing-room.
Let any case of distress be presented any call of real suffering which has actually been ascertained, and is vouched for by a respectable citizen, the hearts of the New-Yorkers will instantly respond to the appeal.
How she would grind down her heel when she got it on the neck of New York! Friendship, love, helpfulness what did New York and New-Yorkers know of these things? "Or Hanging Rock, either," reflected she. What a cold and lonely world! "Have you been to see about a position?" inquired Cyrilla. Mildred was thrown into confusion. "I can't go for a day or so," she stammered.
It was evident now, however, that these fears had been ill-founded, for no play could receive such laudatory reviews as these and fail to set New-Yorkers aflame.
She convicted him of levity equal to that of the New-Yorkers in proposing such a thing; and they dragged through the day. She was too tired to care for dinner, and in the night she had a dream from which she woke herself with a cry that roused him, too.
The particular bunch that it amuses me to hate just now and that I apparently can't do without they gather around Olympia Johns, who makes a kind of salon out of her rooms on Great James Street, off Theobald's Road.... They might just as well be in New York; but they're even stodgier. They don't get sick of the game of being on intellectual heights as soon as New-Yorkers do.
It may be that CARRIAGE is at the bottom of this thing; and I think it is; for there are plenty of ladies and gentlemen in the provincial cities whose garments are all made by the best tailors and dressmakers of New York; yet this has no perceptible effect upon the grand fact: the educated eye never mistakes those people for New-Yorkers.
But the important characters are all live and actual flesh and blood. In Pompilard, a capitally drawn figure, many New-Yorkers will recognize an original, faithfully limned. In Colonel Delancy Hyde, "Virginia-born," we have a most amusing representative of the lower orders of the "Chivalry."
An' I confiss to ye with contrition, Ned, me dear boy, I'm Cubberd Allen Wiggit-Galt, Etcetera !" After his fashion Franklin sat silent, waiting for the other's speech. "Ned," said Battersleigh at length, "till me, who's the people of the intire worrld that has the most serane belief in their own shupayriority?" "New-Yorkers," said Franklin calmly. "Wrong. Ye mustn't joke, me boy. No.
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