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The Lambert girls the pretty twins and the younger, slim slip of a lassie, Elinor were charming, fresh, natural, unspoiled, very different from and far more to his taste than most of the young women who came to Crest House hot-house products, over-sophisticated, cynical, too familiar with rouge and cigarettes and the game of love and lure, huntresses more or less, the whole pack of them.
"Certainly, as a mediocrity, this is respectable though a fastidious taste might see a multitude of faults." "I shall not say that the taste would be merely fastidious, for much is wanting that would add to the grace and beauty of society, while much that is wanting would be missed only by the over-sophisticated.
Of two things he was certain: there was no ugly understanding between the mother and daughter over that unspeakable past, and Madame Delano's new attitude toward her daughter was merely the result of an over-sophisticated mother's apprehensions: those of a woman who was looking in upon smart society for the first time and found it alarming, and unwelcome, but inevitable thought peculiarly dangerous to a young and beautiful creature with wild and lawless blood in her veins.
It went against all the precepts of her training; nevertheless, it was somehow splendid and beautiful. She imagined it stripped another artificial scale from her over-sophisticated eyes. Scarcely had she settled again to the task on her desk when Stillwell's heavy tread across the porch interrupted her.
Burt's technique is still a trifle over-sophisticated, but I suppose this is a fault on virtue's side. A collection of Mr. Burt's short stories in book form should be anxiously awaited by the American public. LONELY PLACES, and 10.
How soon the tide may turn, no one can say. Meanwhile he has his tranquil place in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. The Abbey must be a pleasant spot to wait in, for the Portland boy. Oddly enough, some of the over-sophisticated and under-experienced people who affect to patronize Longfellow assume toward John Greenleaf Whittier an air of deference.
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