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She would wait for us in the howdah, on the elephant's back, and perhaps would go to sleep. Narayan was against this parti de plaisir from the very beginning, and now, without explaining his reasons, he said she was the only sensible one among us. "You won't lose anything," he remarked, "by staying where you are. And I only wish everyone would follow your example."
It is in the highest degree fantastic and luxuriant it is on the whole very lovely. As a triumph of the many-hued it prepares you for the interior, where the same parti- coloured splendour is endlessly at play a confident complication of harmonies and contrasts and of the minor structural refinements and braveries.
There is only one outside passenger, and he sits upon the box. As I am that one, I climb up; and while they are strapping the luggage on the roof, and heaping it into a kind of tray behind, have a good opportunity of looking at the driver. He is a negro very black indeed. He has two odd gloves: one of parti- coloured worsted, and one of leather.
He thought he ought to have been consulted, even as an old friend, much more as And the young ass was offensive. If it turned out that Sir Tom had anything to do with it Montjoie should find that to be the best parti of the season was not a thing that would infallibly recommend him to a father at least. The Contessa had risen from her chair at the sound of the voices.
The General hesitated. "Would not that tend somewhat to prejudice his Highness's position as an impartial head of the Commission? Talking to the workers themselves, before the sittings have yet begun, has a certain air of parti pris. Some of the Commission, I fear, would not like it." "To tell the truth," said the King, "I very much doubt whether the Prince will serve upon that Commission at all.
You will have nothing in the world to do except to let the life soak into you, and, as I have said, keep your eyes and ears open. 'But you must give me some clue as to what I should be looking for? 'My orders are to give you none. Our chiefs yours and mine want you to go where you are going without any kind of parti pris. Remember we are still in the intelligence stage of the affair.
"But I suppose," say I, slowly, "that he was better off well off once when she married him, for instance?" "How did you know that?" he asks, a little surprised. "Who told you? Yes; at that time he was looked upon as quite a parti." "Better off than you, I suppose?" say I, still speaking slowly, and reading the carpet. "I mean than you were then?" Again he laughs. "He might easily have been that?
There is an old and not less true adage, that what we wish we readily believe; and so with me I found myself an easy convert to my own hopes and desires, and actually ended by persuading myself no very hard task that my Lord Callonby had not only witnessed but approved of my attachment to his beautiful daughter, and for reasons probably known to him, but concealed from me, opined that I was a suitable "parti," and gave all due encouragement to my suit.
Bessie was a desirable parti, as she would, in all probability, inherit her aunt's large fortune, and he signified his approval; and in all Boston there was not a happier man than Grey, on the morning when, with his Aunt Hannah, he at last started for Allington, telling her when he bade her good-by at the station that he should bring Bessie to her early the following day.
He seemed a great deal older than he was; thirty-seven is young to occupy the place he held. Such a parti could not be let alone entirely. His course was certainly discouraging, and it needs tough hopes to live on nothing. But stranger things had happened; more obdurate men had yielded; and unappropriated loveliness hoped on. The story of an early attachment was afloat in connection with his name.
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