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I think I like best the passage where he said that Lyons's charming social acaccomplishments included a talent for "imitating a Jew." The article is accompanied with a large and somewhat leering portrait of that shopkeeper, which makes the parlour-trick in question particularly astonishing.
No one has or ever will." "He is also standing on his head, sir, in the middle of the kitchen table." "It's his great parlour-trick. You just try to do it, Peddle especially after two quarts of beer. He's showing his gratitude, poor chap just like the juggler of Notre-Dame in the story. And I'm sure everybody's enjoying themselves?" "The maids are nearly in hysterics, sir."
Her type of beauty was certainly remarkable given, it must be confessed, to a certain amount of fluctuation and she danced divinely, which gift must not be counted as a parlour-trick; she was slow in her movements and quiet in her manner until she talked of horses or anybody she loved; then her great eyes would flash and her laugh ring out, also she would gesticulate as her mother had been wont to do, until the climate, maybe, of a northern country had served to repress the spontaneity of her Latin mannerisms.
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