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"I'll go for a day's trip to Brighton," he said, "and cheat the Company. They deserve it." He went to Victoria, and ignoring the booking-office, calmly seated himself in a first-class compartment, where, amongst other occupants, sat a quite remarkably proper-looking clergyman, and a very handsomely dressed lady, with a haughty stare, and a typical nouveau riche nose!
"A proper-looking young gentleman," a market woman said to her daughter, as he passed. "Another two or three years, and he will make a rare defender of the faith. He must be from Normandy, with his fair complexion and light eyes. There are not many of the true faith in the north." They were met by the merchant at the door of his house.
She had one, of course a nice, proper-looking Bible and if it chanced to be convenient when she was ready to read, she used it; if not, she took Sadie's, or picked up Julia's from under the table, or the old one on a shelf in the corner, with one cover and part of Revelation missing it mattered not one whit to her which for there were no pencil marks, and no leaves turned down, and no special verses to find.
They all wished so hard, indeed, that they felt quite giddy and almost lost consciousness; but the wishing was quite vain, for, when the wood ceased to whirl round, their dazzled eyes were riveted at once by the spectacle of a very proper-looking young man in flannels and a straw hat a young man who wore the same little black moustache which just before they had actually seen growing upon the Baby's lip.
The words seemed to be echoing from the stolen conversation too warmly alive in her memory. He, too, she thought, was probably considering her a nice proper-looking woman, but one no man would think of marrying. "Take a chair," she said, and the cap'n went over to the hearth where a careful fire was laid. "Goin' to touch it off?" he inquired.
We were quite ignorant in those days, it is needless to remark, of the fact that this cool, proper-looking Bailli was a great musician, a first-class performer of the STABAT MATER, whose inspiration however depended on his having the shoulders, very DECOLLETEE ones too, of a charming nightingale, over whom the Opera and Opera-Comique fought for many a day, as the desk he laid his music on.
The bed of that river went in a vein through about three miles of mud, till it sheared into the land, and flowed into a proper-looking river with banks of its own.
They all wished so hard, indeed, that they felt quite giddy and almost lost consciousness; but the wishing was quite vain, for, when the wood ceased to whirl round, their dazed eyes were riveted at once by the spectacle of a very proper-looking young man in flannels and a straw hat a young man who wore the same little black mustache which just before they had actually seen growing upon the Baby's lip.
"I think it is more proper-looking, and better suited, too, for the world's work, when it goes about with some sort of a garment on it. We are so used to a leaven of falsehood in all we hear and say, nowadays, that nothing is more likely to deceive us than the absolute truth. If a shopkeeper told me that his wares were simply middling, of course, I should think that they were not worth a farthing.
"May be if they came one at a time I'd know what to say." "What have you agin Adam Wilson?" "Nothing. But I have nothing against Elias Mason." "Nor I, either. But I know which is the most proper-looking young man." "Looks isn't everything, mother. You should hear Elias Mason talk. You should hear him repeat poetry." "Well, then, have Elias." "Ah, but I haven't the heart to turn against Adam."
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