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Updated: May 29, 2025
It is not ridiculous that you write of beautiful and joyous things because there was a time when living was really all one wonderful adventure, and you remember it." "But, oh, my dear, my dear! such glum discussions are so sadly out-of-place on such a night as this," he lamented.
There was a young fellow standing there who looked about as out-of-place as I felt. I thought I would speak to him. "Come," said I, "let us take a little promenade outside the women are too much for me." He made no answer. I heard giggling and tittering breaking out all around the room, like rash on a baby with the measles. "Come on," said I; "like as not they're laughing at us."
At the next turn of the talk he was forced to admit that not even Patricia herself could speak more intelligently of the English social problem; and when it came to the vital questions of the American moment he gasped again and wondered if he were awake if it could be possible that this out-of-place Georgian mansion and its charming mistress could be part and parcel of the West which had so far outgrown the boyhood memories.
Some seventeen years ago he came into the Army through one of its Shelters, a drunken, out-of-place cabinet-maker, who had been tramping the streets. They gave him work and he 'got converted. Now he is the head of the Manchester Social Institutions, engaged in finding work for or converting thousands of others.
Mrs Forrester surprised us in our darned caps and patched collars; and we forgot all about them in our eagerness to see how she would bear the information, which we honourably left to Miss Pole, to impart, although, if we had been inclined to take unfair advantage, we might have rushed in ourselves, for she had a most out-of-place fit of coughing for five minutes after Mrs Forrester entered the room.
And on this particular Saturday, the child had been wandering about the passages among the sofas and chairs which, having been put out there during the weekly sweeping, looked as restless and out-of-place as Hunne himself. He spent a long time looking for his mother and he found her at last up-stairs in the attic, but she sent him down at once, for she was busy with the clothes for the wash.
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