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"You will see him, surely, before he goes." "No; I will not give him another opportunity to presume upon my kindness." "Why, to be sure," says I, like a fool, "you have been a little over-familiar." "Indeed," says she, firing up like a cracker. "Then I think 'twould have been kinder of you to give me a hint of it beforehand. However, 'tis a very good excuse for treating him otherwise now."
His face was rugged, and grimed rather than dirty; his eyes dull and bleared; his body bent, his calves thin and spindly, his feet dragging and limping. His clothing was a mixture of dirt and rags long over-familiar to me. As I passed him he touched his hat with some real goodwill and courtesy, and much servility.
He had really enjoyed his dinner and the pleasant chat afterwards, but the prospect of piloting this magnificent beauty about till morning, or till she should take it into her head to go home, was exhausting. Besides, he went little into society of this kind, and was not over-familiar with the faces he saw.
Some of the men were of the kind who say "My deah" to every woman, and "My deah boy" to the most casual acquaintance vain, egotistical, wordy, and pompous; but one glance from Helen was sufficient to check an over-familiar hand in mid-air. The boldest of them did not clap her on the shoulder but once.
They made it a sort of personal appeal, and a test of personal friendship to themselves, so grudgingly the contemplated visit to the theatre was abandoned, and we resigned ourselves to six more hours inside the over-familiar building. Sir William Hart-Dyke had been Chief Conservative Whip in the 1868-1873 Parliament.
Slowly she withdrew her fingers from his clasp. "Thou art bold!" she said, with a touch of indolent amusement in her accents. "But in thy boldness there is something of the hero. Knowest thou not that I, Lysia, High Priestess of Nagaya, could have thee straightway slain for that unwise speech of thine? unwise because over-hasty and somewhat over-familiar.
Then, too, though allowed to run rather wild, he was unmistakably a gentleman. Though he mixed freely with every body in the parish, he was neither haughty nor over-familiar with any one. He had something of the minister's manner with inferiors frank, gentle, and free winning both trust and love, and yet it was impossible to take liberties with him.
It will easily be perceived that the meaning of the subsequent conversation is the same as in the Preface of 'Volpone, where Jonson says that 'wis and noble persons 'ought to' take heed how they be too credulous, or give leave to these invading interpreters to be over-familiar with their fames. They are the only knowing men of Europe!
On the other hand, your professional nature-lover is sometimes a little over-familiar with his subject. He knows the names of all the things, and he does not spare you. Besides, he is subtle. The prominent features are too familiar to him, and he goes into details. What respectable townsman, for instance, knows what "scabiosa" is? It sounds very unpleasant.
So laughing, he bowed again his compliments; but Eustacie demanded, so soon as he was gone, what he meant by calling her by such names. If he thought it was her Christian name, it was over-familiar if not, she liked it less. 'It is only that he last saw you in the Infernal Region, ma mie, said Berenger; 'and I have sought you ever since, as Orpheus sought Eurydice.
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