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I'd a lot rather hear her talk than Sarah Blake's father our minister at home. Aunt Lucinda says Mr. Blake is very spiritual, but he's terribly prosy. I have the awfullest time trying to keep awake when he talks it's dreadful!" "Well, you'll have a treat to-day at Trinity, Blue Bonnet. The Bishop is going to preach. I adore him.
I am so old that you will not take offense you will not mind listening to me, or forgetting the dull, prosy things I say about the curse of idleness, and the habits of cynical thinking, and the perils of vacant-minded indulgence. You will forgive me and you will forget me. That will be as it should be. Good-by." Gatewood, sobered, surprised, descended the stairs and hailed a hansom.
It's gasping its last gasp in company with poetry. Realism is our only wear Realism and Prose very prosy Prose. YOU are a romantic child! I can see that! but don't over-do it! And if you ever made an ideal out of your sixteenth-century man, don't make another out of the twentieth-century one! He couldn't stand it! he'd crumble at a touch!" She answered nothing, but avoided his glance.
When you are dressed up, and ordered to behave properly, and made to look as handsome as you can, so that ladies shall take notice of you and flatter you with their eyes and tongues, and you come to have the same interest in the world that other men have and why shouldn't you? then your imagination will not be running away with you, or making angels out of common little persons like myself how dreadfully prosy and commonplace you have no idea!
Luker was, in every respect, such an inferior creature to the Indian he was so vulgar, so ugly, so cringing, and so prosy that he is quite unworthy of being reported, at any length, in these pages. The substance of what he had to tell me may be fairly stated as follows: The day before I had received the visit of the Indian, Mr. Luker had been favoured with a call from that accomplished gentleman.
Next to him, perhaps, you will see a thin pale man, with a very long face, in a suit of shining black, thoughtfully knocking that part of his boot which once had a heel, with an ash stick. He is the man who does the heavy business, such as prosy fathers, virtuous servants, curates, landlords, and so forth.
One listened to him, as he held forth of an evening when surrounded by his family, with reverential silence. He had a strong Scotch accent; and, if a wee bit prosy at times, it was sententious and polished prose that he talked; he talked invariably like a book. His family were devoted to him; and I felt that no one who knew him could help liking him.
I shall be proud to make his acquaintance tell him so, with my compliments. 'You must have been a queer fellow when you were a child, confounded queer. It's odd, all that about the picture in your first paper prosy, but told in a devilish gentlemanly sort of way. In places like that I could come in with great effect with a touch of life don't you feel that?
How did they receive them? Some listened with the thoughtful look on their faces that betokened hearts and consciences stirred. There were those who yawned, and thought the sermon unusually long and prosy. Now and then a gentleman more thoughtless or less cultured than the rest snapped his watch-case in the very face of the speaker, by accident, let us hope.
'Temporarily dismissed it from my mind, is all I meant. The simple fact is, that the vastness of the field of astronomy reduces every terrestrial thing to atomic dimensions. Do not trouble, dearest. The remedy is quite easy, as I stated in my letter. We can now be married in a prosy public way. Yes, early or late next week, next month, six months hence just as you choose.
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