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He had not yet learned that good society is seldom literal. "Upon my soul, Miss Manners, there you do him wrong," he retorted, with ludicrous heat; "you, above all, should know for whom he pines." "He has misled you by praising me. This Richard, despite his frank exterior, is most secretive." "There you have hit him, Miss Manners," he declared; "there you have hit him!
Gradually, however, the General had come to know his soldiers better, and six months later he wrote to Lund Washington, praising his northern troops in the highest terms.
To do him justice, he never had any doubt that those whose judgment he followed were absolutely right; but he followed them blindly, often praising books or pictures that he had never read or seen because it was the thing to do.
I take it the fellow has tact enough not to tell stories here. 'What is all that you are saying there? cried his lordship, to whom these few sentences were an 'aside. 'Cecil is praising Mr. Atlee, my lord, said Maude bluntly. 'I did not know I had been, my lord, said he. 'He belongs to that class of men who interest me very little. 'What class may that be? 'The adventurers, my lord.
"All that is in the small trunk; I shall have it taken into my room tonight." We reached Viterbo at seven o'clock, and found the count very cheerful. In accordance with the plot I had laid against the count, I began by shewing myself demonstratively fond of Betty, envying the fortunate lover, praising his heroic behaviour in leaving her to me, and so forth.
So thought the patient lady, wiser in that than in her perceptions. Renee made a boast of not persuading her guest to stay, avowing that she would not willingly have him go. Praising him equably, she listened to praise of him with animation. She was dumb and statue-like when Count Henri's name was mentioned. Did not this betray liking for one, subjection to the other?
The king appeared before the Assembly, without preliminaries, and delivered an unexpected statement of policy, adopting the entire work of the Revolution, as far as it had gone, and praising in particular the recent division of Provinces into departments. Every step, until that day, had been taken reluctantly, feebly, under compulsion. Every concession had been a defeat and a surrender.
But, of course, it wouldn’t have come to torture then, because I should only have had to say at that instant to the mountain, ‘Move and crush the tormentor,’ and it would have moved and at the very instant have crushed him like a black-beetle, and I should have walked away as though nothing had happened, praising and glorifying God.
And in order that there may be no mistake as to their contempt of this style which I am praising, let them write something either in the style of Isocrates, or in that which Aeschines or Demosthenes employs, and then I will believe that they have not shrunk from this style out of despair of being able to arrive at it, but that they have avoided it deliberately on account of their bad opinion of it: or else I will find a man myself who may be willing to be bound by this condition, either to say or write, in whichever language you please, in the style which those men prefer.
The Bore plunges into the important business of praising himself, with a frankness not yet forgotten in his species, and Horace tries to get rid of him, walking very fast, then very slowly, then turning to whisper a word to his slave, and in his anxiety he feels the perspiration breaking out all over him, while his Tormentor chatters on, as they skirt the splendid Julian Basilica, gleaming in the morning sun.
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