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I am wholly aware of the preposterousness of my demands in many respects" this sounded very conventional and commonplace, but every lover must say it "and, believe me, I shudder when I think of what I have dared confess." Then she said with the most delightful demureness: "Mr.
"We must create a diversion," he said. "I'm for the Tower, and you laddies must come with me. We'll maybe see a chance. Oh, but I wish I had my wee pistol." "If ye're gaun there, Dickson, I'm comin' wi' ye," Mrs Morran announced. Her words revealed to Dickson the preposterousness of the whole situation, and for all his anxiety he laughed.
It is this which makes him find the masterly conclusion to Riders of the Sea, when old Maurya, lamenting the death of her sons, comforts herself, "No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied;" it is this which gives Naisi the ancient love of life, "It's a hard and bitter thing leaving the earth;" which produces so admirable a proverb as, "Who would listen to an old woman with one thing and she saying it over?"; and enables Pegeen, in The Playboy of the Western World, to perceive, if only from pique, the preposterousness of her infatuation "There's a great gap," she says and this is the gist of the matter "between a gallous story and a dirty deed."
Marshall-Smith forbore to over-emphasize her victory by a feather-weight of gloating, and turned to her sister-in-law with a whimsical remark about the preposterousness of one of the costumes passing. Arnold sulked in silence until Judith, emerging from her usual self-contained reticence, made her first advance to him.
You!" she cried. "But you!" he cried back at her across the exedra. The preposterousness of their greetings appealed to them at that moment and they both laughed. He started around the exedra; she moved away. "Stay!" he begged. "I want only to touch your hand." Shyly, she let him take both of her hands, and he lifted them in spite of her little show of resistance and kissed them.
There is nothing more certain than that the honest fellow merits backsheesh from somebody; it is also equally certain that I am the only person from whom he stands the ghost of a chance of getting any; nevertheless, the idea of being appealed to for backsheesh, after what I have just undergone, merely as an act of accommodation, strikes me as just a trifle ridiculous, and the opportunity of engaging the grinning, good-humored zaptieh in a little banter concerning the abstract preposterousness of his expectations is too good to be lost.
His objection to it was quite simple, as we have seen. The worst of it is that this dangerous preposterousness in marriage, instead of improving as the general conduct of married couples improves, becomes much worse.
The words came almost fiercely, yet with a sound like a stifled sob. By its sheer preposterousness the speech left me dumb a moment, and then gave me back the self-possession I had been clutching at throughout the meal. For the first time since entering I sat erect and squared my shoulders. I even confronted her with a rather glittering smile.
But it couldn't be of course it couldn't be. The preposterousness of it proved that it wasn't true. There was a mistake somewhere; a mistake his own lawyer would instantly rectify. If a hammer hadn't been drumming in his head he could have recalled the terms of the decree but for the moment all the details of the agonizing episode were lost in a blur of uncertainty.
The preposterousness of this no human being would have felt more strongly than Theodosia Garrow, except Theodosia Trollope, when such an estimate had become yet more preposterous. But Landor, whose unstinted admiration of Mrs. Browning's poetry is vigorously enough expressed in his own strong language, as may be seen in Mr.
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