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Everybody moved as though they were inspired with a gay sense of adventure, men and women laughing; the Isvostchicks surveying possible fares with an eye less patronising and lugubrious than usual, the flower women and the beggars and the little Chinese boys and the wicked old men who stare at you as though they were dreaming of Eastern debauches, shared in the sun and tang of the air and high colour of the sky and snow.
They had decided in council, or rather Miss Isabella had decided for them, that since he was to be received, they would remember only his gentle blood; and therefore they shook hands with him, and the difference of the clasp alone could have shown the difference of character the patronising, the nervous, the tenderly agitated, the hearty.
But with all this, they were by no means rude, and showed me that sort of respect that servants do to the petted child of their master: that is to say, they were inclined to be very patronising, and very careful of me, in spite of myself; and to humour me greatly.
One or two more speakers brought fresh evidence to bear on the subject; and then there was the division. The moderns won by a huge majority. As the rabble passed into the passage Gordon heard Ferrers say to Christy in his most patronising manner: "Rather wiped the ground with you, didn't we?... Well, never mind, you stood no earthly.... Days of the classics are over.
Be discreet, and do not get into any foolish entanglements of any sort." Amphillis asked only one question Would the lady be pleased to tell her the name and address of her future mistress? "Your mistress lives in Derbyshire. You will hear her name on the way." And with a patronising nod to the girls, and another to Regina, the lady left the room.
One vacation he did not call upon the Doctor at all, much to his mother's annoyance, who thought that it was a privilege to enter the Rectory-house at Clavering, and listened to Dr. Portman's antique jokes and stories, though ever so often repeated, with unfailing veneration. "I cannot stand the Doctor's patronising air", Pen said. "He's too kind to me, a great deal fatherly.
Well, every man has his nostrum." "I have not. My method is not my own, but Plato's." "But, my good fellow, the Windrush school admire Plato as much as you do, and yet certainly arrive at somewhat different conclusions." "They do Plato the honour of patronising him, as a Representative Man; but their real text-book, you will find, is Proclus.
"Look here; I'm sure my father wouldn't like me to fight you with swords, whether you pinked me as you call it, or I wounded you." "Pish! Frank Gowan, you are a poltroon." "Perhaps so; but look here, Andrew Forbes, you've often made me want to hit you when you've been so bounceable and patronising. Now, we were going to see your friend to-night " "We are going to see my friend to-night, sir.
Mr Selwyn you are welcome, and I shall be most happy to see his lordship, and my husband shall call upon him when we know when he will be at leisure. Oh! that Colonel, but he's rightly served, a French teacher. Ha, ha, ha! and Mrs Stanhope's mirth was communicated to her husband, who now held out his hand to me in a most patronising manner. "`Well, sir, I give you joy.
We find, therefore, throughout the whole period of our more modern history, a powerful section of the great nobles ever at war with the national institutions, checking the Crown, attacking the independence of that House of Parliament in which they happen to be in a minority no matter which, patronising sects to reduce the influence of the Church, and playing town against country to overcome the authority of the gentry.
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