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Some of the singular persons here affect vagaries and discuss pruderies or church matters, ethics and the like. Or we have some of the Concord people who give us parlor talks. Once in a while they arouse the gifted brothers, and then we have a genuine treat; Mr. Dwight and Mr. Bradford, Mr. Ripley, Mr.
Could she be afraid of Nigel? Could she cower before his goodness when it realized her evil? Marriage had surely subtly changed her, giving back to her desires, prejudices, even pruderies of feeling that she had thought she had got rid of for ever long ago. Some spectral instincts of the "straight" woman still feebly strove, it seemed, to lift their bowed heads within her.
He was not resigned to the usual pruderies he suffered under them already. He struck out the brilliant idea that nobody knew how far we might go, for nobody had ever tried. Did I think HE might safely try would it injure his mother if he did? He would rather disgrace himself by his timidities than injure his mother, but certainly some one ought to try.
Wouldn't the woman, for example, be very bad-natured if she didn't like to live with her husband; merely" her voice undulated, and he guessed things "merely because she had a personal feeling against it a physical objection a fastidiousness, or whatever it may be called although she might respect and be grateful to him? I am merely putting a case. Ought she to try to overcome her pruderies?"
Grundy herself seems to me as over-abused as marriage. The celerity with which she became a byword, from the moment she made her accidental appearance in Tom Morton's 'Speed the Plough, shows how the popular instinct needed some such incarnation of our neighbours' opinions. She stands, the representative of the ethical level of the age, not of fixed pruderies.
The narrow theological spirit, the moralism <i>a tout propos</i>, the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers. One may doubtless be very happy in Venice without reading at all without criticising or analysing or thinking a strenuous thought.
His interest in everything was as fresh as a boy's, and nothing he could do in the way of kindness was ever a trouble to him. "You have been coming out strong in defence of morality lately," I remarked, when I had dined. "You have somewhat startled the proprieties." "Startled the pruderies, you mean," he answered, bridling.
There had been considerable question of her writing a letter to the New York Tribune, the effect of which should be to launch Miss Tarrant into renown; but this beneficent epistle never appeared, and now Olive saw that there was no favour to come from the prophetess of Roxbury. There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen.
At length came that time when physicians could define within a few days the final hour of release. And latterly the mocking pruderies of rank had been laid aside, and Maltravers had, for some hours at least in the day, taken his watch beside the couch to which the admired and brilliant Florence Lascelles was now almost constantly reduced. But her high and heroic spirit was with her to the last.
She found that it was possible to turn about every one of her reserves and delicacies so that they looked like selfish scruples and petty pruderies, and at this game she came in time to exhaust all the resources of an over-abundant casuistry. Meanwhile the first days after Deering's departure wore a soft, refracted light like the radiance lingering after sunset.
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