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"Circumstances alter cases," said I, platitudinously. "In happier circumstances you would have been presented with the novelist's fine, finished product. As it happens, Jaffery has had to fill up little gaps, make bridges here and there.
Deprayne?" she suggested when the silence had begun to be oppressive. I had always been accounted a talkative man. One could read in her face that she had the wit to sparkle in conversation like champagne in cut glass, yet under the constraint that had settled over us, we labored as platitudinously as a knickerbockered boy and a school-girl entertaining her first caller.
I took up my parable, the same old parable that wise seniors have preached to the deluded young from time immemorial. I have seldom held forth so platitudinously even in the House of Commons. I spoke as impressively as a bishop. In the midst of my harangue he came and sat by the library table and rested his chin on his palm, looking at me quietly out of his dark eyes.
I am sure that if the dove on the woman's finger had opened its painted bill and spoken, say about the binomial theorem, or the Effect of Too Much Culture upon Women's Clubs, I should have listened with equal gravity and the same abysmal absence of surprise. I pattered platitudinously: "The greatest of the Greeks considered the body divine in itself, my son, and so their noblest art was nude.
"Of course," said I platitudinously, "human nature is the same everywhere; but there is more color er more drama and movement and er romance in some cities than in others." "On the surface," said Azalea Adair. "I have traveled many times around the world in a golden airship wafted on two wings print and dreams.
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