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If a man should find in a desert island a fine statue of marble, he would undoubtedly immediately say, "Sure, there have been men here formerly; I perceive the workmanship of a skilful statuary; I admire with what niceness he has proportioned all the limbs of this body, in order to give them so much beauty, gracefulness, majesty, life, tenderness, motion, and action!"
He said that, but for the Tories, Germany and Britain would be fellow-workers in peace and reform. I thought of the little black book in my pocket! A giddy lot Scudder's friends cared for peace and reform. Yet in a queer way I liked the speech. You could see the niceness of the chap shining out behind the muck with which he had been spoon-fed. Also it took a load off my mind.
"My dear girl, you will never make a social ornament of me as long as you live," he said. And Mab patted his arm affectionately. "You're nicer as you are, dear boy," she said. "You aren't smart, it's true, but I give you the highest mark for real niceness." Seton's eyes met Merefleet's for a second. There was a touch of uneasiness about him, as if he feared Merefleet might misconstrue something.
In former years Paulvitch had been a fastidious scoundrel; but ten years of hideous life among the cannibals of Africa had eradicated the last vestige of niceness from his habits. His apparel was wrinkled and soiled. His hands were unwashed, his few straggling locks uncombed. His room was a jumble of filthy disorder.
Can I forget thee, thou old Margate Hoy, with thy weather-beaten, sun-burnt captain, and his rough accommodations ill exchanged for the foppery and fresh-water niceness of the modern steam-packet? To the winds and waves thou committedst thy goodly freightage, and didst ask no aid of magic fumes, and spells, and boiling cauldrons.
30 "New-fashioned carriages"; not equipages to ride in, but dainty formalities. "Nor in my carriage a feigned niceness shown." Dryden. "Trades in the carriage of a holy saint." Shakespeare. Ed. 31 Bunyan, when sent to prison, was thus threatened: "If you do not go to church, or transport yourself, you must stretch by the neck for it."
He thrilled with a sense of personal triumph as he realized that the grab was a magnificent sea boat. There was no fear but that the hull would stand the strain; Desmond knew the pains that had been expended in her building: the careful selection of the timbers, the niceness with which the planks had been fitted. No European vessel could have proved her superior in seaworthiness.
Die Baring would not tolerate his boon companions not that he wanted her to tolerate them; she would not suit for his mistress and manager if she did; though where she got her niceness seeing what her father was up to in cool, barefaced scampishness, in horse-flesh, bones, and pasteboard he could not tell. She was a capable woman he was certain, if she got a fair field for her capability.
"It is strange," she added, turning the lorgnette this time carefully at Jane, "that he does not find a nice young girl to marry." "Such a cynosure of niceness, too," Ann added her little dig, and Jane suggested: "He might try advertising!" "What's advertising?" Dale asked. "Oh, Lord," the Colonel exploded into his napkin.
His reasoning had not been without its weight upon her. "Grace," he said, just before they had reached the house, "if it costs me my life you shall marry well! To-day has shown me that whatever a young woman's niceness, she stands for nothing alone. You shall marry well." He breathed heavily, and his breathing was caught up by the breeze, which seemed to sigh a soft remonstrance.
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