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Chris had her hands full trying to live pretentiously on a rather small income. They had found an elderly aunt of Mr. Ludlow's who, in her day, had been quite a society woman. She had an old-fashioned but well furnished house in Amity Street, and had not given up all her acquaintances.
On the other side an ill-kept road overgrown with bunches of rough grass wound up the cypress and olive clad hill. At the very top stood the house which somewhat pretentiously named itself a château. It was built of the beautiful mottled stone of the country, brown and gray, veined and splashed with green, purple, yellow, and rose pink.
At a score of such casual meetings I was thus presented, for he seemed to know quite almost every one and at times there would be a group of natives about us on the pavement. Twice we went into "saloons," as they rather pretentiously style their public houses, where Cousin Egbert would stand the drinks for all present, not omitting each time to present me formally to the bar-man.
If the police happened along and saw, they'd think there was something wrong and make my friend a whole lot of bother." Win saw the force of this explanation, and stooping to pass through the low aperture, found herself close to a pretentiously carved portal.
On the other hand, the three books of travel pretentiously named 'Tourisime, 'Les Profils d'Etrangeres' and the 'Eclogue Mondaine, which fluctuated between Florence and London, St.-Moritz and Bayreuth, revealed long sojourns out of France; a clever analysis of the Italian, English, and German worlds; a superficial but true knowledge of the languages, the history and literature, which in no way accords with 'l'odor di femina', exhale from every page.
He was dressed with scrupulous neatness and rather pretentiously, as behooved his occupation, but all this would scarcely have prevented one from telling him for a tailor from some poor town in Russia Now and then my project struck me as absurd. For Chaikin was in the foremost ranks of a trade in which I was one of the ruck.
This Geisner could and would not, and he who would could not. The tears rained down his cheeks because of his utter impotence. The music stopped. With a start he came to himself, ashamed of his weakness, and hastily blew his nose, fussing pretentiously with his handkerchief. But only one had noticed him Geisner, who seemed to see and hear everything.
"I am almost ashamed," said he, "to ask an English gentleman to sit down to such a dinner as Mrs. Townsend will put before you." "And indeed then it isn't much," said Mrs. Townsend; "just a bit of fish I found going the road." "My dear madam, anything will suffice," said Mr. Carter, somewhat pretentiously. And anything would have sufficed.
Effie, who again renewed her instructions, and from an escritoire brought me a sheaf of the pretentiously printed sheets which the French use in place of our banknotes. "You will spare no expense," she directed, "and don't let me see him again until he looks like some one. Try to have him back here by five. Some very smart friends of ours are coming for tea."
I have seen other capitols since, but the whole majesty of the matter must have been then distilled into my mind even though the connection was indirect and the concrete image, that of the primitive structure, long since pretentiously and insecurely superseded so that, later on, the impression was to find itself, as the phrase is, discounted.
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