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But Grant can be committed for trial on a coroner's warrant." "Grant is certainly in an awkward place." "Only a little while ago you dismissed my theory of the crime as airy persiflage." "That was before you quoted Horace. I have a great respect for Horace. His ode to the New Year is a gem." "Would you care to see my wife's recent letters?" "If you please."
Voila un persiflage! cried the Count. As the passport was directed to all lieutenant-governors, governors, and commandants of cities, generals of armies, justiciaries, and all officers of justice, to let Mr. Yorick the king's jester, and his baggage, travel quietly along, I own the triumph of obtaining the passport was not a little tarnish'd by the figure I cut in it.
"From what I hear," said Lord Persiflage, "I suppose you would not wish to reside permanently in Italy, as an Italian?" "Certainly not," said Roden. "There is no reason why you should. I can imagine that you should have become too confirmed an Englishman to take kindly to Italian public life as a career. You could hardly do so except as a follower of your uncle, which perhaps would not suit you."
It would be much better that Fanny should come back. The young nobleman would, he supposed, live in his own country; unless, indeed, the whole tale was a cock-and-bull story made up by Persiflage at the Foreign Office. It was just the sort of thing, he said, that Persiflage would do. He had said not a word as to carving an income out of the property for the young noble couple when she left him.
"He said to Pete, in the store, just after Pete had tried to say something funny with the usual lamentable failure um 'You are mentally incapable of recognizing the line of demarcation between legitimate persiflage and objectionable familiarity. Now, I want to know what sort of a man, under fifty and not a college professor, would or could say that without studying it first.
"I will shoot her a bundle of gold leaf from the top of the pass on a ray of evening sunshine." There, he gave Jack a pat on the shoulder; a hasty, playful, almost affectionate demonstration, and broke off with a shout of: "Persiflage, sir, persiflage!" "It is manna to me!" declared Jack, in the fulness and sweetness of the sensation of the atmosphere of Little Rivers reproduced in New York.
A Count from Torcello is the title which Venetian persiflage gives to improbable noblemen; and thus even the pride of the dead Republic of Torcello has passed into matter of scornful jest, as that of the dead Republic of Venice may likewise in its day. When we leave the riva of Casa Falier, we pass down the Grand Canal, cross the Basin of St.
"On the very day I've found you I've lost you." "To whom?" "Fame." "Nonsense!" she cried. "Don't forget the awakening of spring." And buried her face against her mother because she had been outrageous. Persiflage rose. "Skylark, when I become more coherent I'll tell you how wonderful you are." "Zoe dear, hadn't we better drive home?" "Lark. Lark. I cannot go home now, Lilly. Let's have a lark!"
But it was Lady Persiflage who really came to the rescue. "Of course we're all very glad to see you," she said. "You'll find that if you'll be nice to us, we'll all be as nice as possible to you. Won't we, Lord Llwddythlw?" "As far as I am concerned," said the busy Member of Parliament, "I shall be delighted to make the acquaintance of Mr. Roden."
"Here's a mighty curious sort of a traveler, boys; as don't know what nothing costs that belongs to him, nor how he come by it," &c. Now I was getting tired, and bored with the whole business, and stifled with the close atmosphere laden with every graveolent horror; besides, I had not escaped from London "chaff" and Parisian persiflage, to be mocked by a wild Virginian.
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