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Even his much criticized remark during the imbroglio between Turkey and Greece, picturing Germany as laying down her flute and retiring from the "European Concert," which to many seemed mere persiflage, was the humorous presentation of a policy dictated by statesmanship.
Handsomebody's desk, and listlessly set out to find the others. I could hear Mary Ellen in the kitchen thumping a mop against the legs of the furniture in a savage manner that bespoke no mood of airy persiflage.
The captain grew red in the face at this piece of persiflage, and under the stress of excitement he swallowed his quid of tobacco and likewise his wrath, at Jim's coolness. "Waal, son, that's extra kind of you, ain't it, boys?" and he looked over the hard beaten crew at his back.
I addressed her again and again, and she answered me politely but so briefly as to give me no opportunity of displaying my powers in the way of persiflage. I asked if her name was her family name or a pseudonym. "It is my baptismal name." "It is Greek; but, of course, you know what it means?" "No." "Mad beauty, or fair moon." "I am glad to say that I have nothing in common with my name."
Several times the American had looked furtively at the arresting face, marred by too apparent mental resentment, but the barricade of Johnston Smyth's angular personality had been too powerful for him to surmount with anything but the most superficial persiflage.
"No? life is too pleasant for you; you have not enthusiasm; why, your talk is always persiflage it is the talk of the fashionable world. And you an artist!"
"Ah! and will you write to me?" It is difficult to imagine the tone of supreme indifference and haughty persiflage with which the Marquise sustained this dialogue, without once slackening her pace, or glancing at her companion, or changing the proud and erect pose of her head. "I will write you either prose or verse, as you wish," said Camors. "Ah! you know how to compose verses?"
With that wonderful adaptability which made him at ease in any society in which he found himself, he adjusted himself to the company of the evening, and, being perfectly master of the French language, could not only understand the light talk and persiflage, but even led in the conversation. As for Mr. Calvert, having none of that adaptability possessed in so large a share by Mr.
Taking it altogether, I don't think this is the sort of thing in which you would believe a lady was carrying several thousand pounds' worth of pearls and diamonds. Eh?" One of the detectives stirred uneasily he did not quite understand the American's light and easy manner, and he seemed to suspect him of persiflage. "We ought to be furnished with a list of the missing articles," he said.
Having given his orders about the old Traffords, as he called them in reference to the "darlings," he said nothing more on the subject. Lady Persiflage wrote a note to "Dear Fanny," conveying the invitation in three words, and received a reply to the effect that she and her brother would be at Castle Hautboy before the end of November.
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