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"Not that any number of baths," he remarked, "would conceal a man's objectionableness from an antelope not even a she-one." Then he went under water, and came up again a long way off. We dried before the fire, without haste. To need no clothes is better than purple and fine linen.
I have a holy horror of babies, to whatever nationality they may belong; but for general objectionableness I believe there are none to compare with the Australian baby. It is not only that the summer heat and sudden changes of climate make him worse-behaved than his confrères over the ocean, but the little brute is omnipresent, and I might almost add omnipotent.
There had been a going and coming of her maid, a thumping about of boxes, an ordering of four-wheelers; it appeared to old Mrs. Tramore that something of the objectionableness, the indecency, of her granddaughter's prospective connection had already gathered about the place.
But, quite apart from the objectionableness of falsifying a most extraordinary true story, any such trite devices would spoil, to my mind, the peculiar effect of this dark world, with its livid green illumination and its drifting Watchers of the Living, which, unseen and unapproachable to us, is yet lying all about us.
It was less the objectionableness of trade as du Maurier in such a drawing as this tried to imply than the advance of it that the old aristocracy really resented. A drawing characteristic of the artist's work in the eighties in 1880 to be definite is that entitled "Mutual Admirationists." It really dates itself. It is descriptive of one of the moods of "passionate Brompton."
We have but considered it our duty on the one hand to give what Herr Duehring calls "The quintessence of a modest mode of expression," and on the other hand, to show that in Herr Duehring's eyes the objectionableness of his predecessors is no less firmly established than his own infallibility.
Indeed, so disturbing was it, not because of any inherent objectionableness, but because of its implication of a change, that the Colonel found himself quite thrown out of his accustomed line of procedure.
It was difficult for him, with his published views on the objectionableness of occasional conformity, and the propriety of Dissenters leaving the magistracy in the hands of the Church, to maintain his new position, without incurring the charge of inconsistency. The charge was freely made, and his own writings were collected as a testimony against him, but he met the charge boldly.
"Then, as I said before," continued the Idiot, "he is continually rehearsing, and his objectionableness as a fellow-boarder would be greater or less, according to his play.
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