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Be sure you go, and do not, my Philander, out of a punctilio of love, neglect your dear safety go then, Philander, and all the gods of love preserve and attend thee on thy way, and bring thee safely back to To SYLVIA. Oh thou most charming of thy sex! Thou lovely dear delight of my transported soul! thou everlasting treasure of my heart! What hast thou done?
The punctilio of his manner, the extreme courtliness of his remarks, embarrassed them a little. Behind his back they spoke of him as "The Duke" and admired him hugely; little Miss Whippet, at the stocking counter, said that he was an English noble of long pedigree, who had been unjustly deprived of his estates.
This punctilio being settled, Waverley made inquiry after Miss Bradwardine, and was informed she had come to Edinburgh with Flora Mac-Ivor, under guard of a party of the Chieftain's men.
If one had n't been in love with her at first, one ought to have been at the end of a week or two. He was a gentleman, and he behaved like a gentleman, with the added punctilio, I think, of being sorry for his betrothed. But it was difficult to see what, in the long run, he could expect to make of such a position.
But you say all punctilio is at an end with me. Why, why, will he take pains to make a heart wrap itself up in reserve, that wishes only, and that for his sake as well as my own, to observe due decorum? Modesty, I think, required of me, that it should pass as he had put it: Did it not? I think it did. Would to heaven but what signifies wishing?
And in what way had he offered a hint to bring on him the charge of punctilio? 'But I am treating it seriously! he said, and jerked a dead laugh while fixing a button of his coat.
They, who had not heard a sound to herald this entrance, simultaneously looked at his long, narrow feet. He wore rubber-soled tennis shoes. 'You must be Mr Bunner, said Trent. 'Calvin C. Bunner, at your service, amended the newcomer, with a touch of punctilio, as he removed an unlighted cigar from his mouth.
Curious, perplexing conditions they are, marking as they do a transition between the brilliant but generally filthy period of the Restoration a period in which some of the worst and some of the best of plays saw the light and the time when the punctilio and artificial decency of the age will cast over the stage the cold light of formality and restraint.
It is the last I have received. I read it frequently, and always with new pleasure. I was disappointed at not having a line from you by the Saturday's mail. It is not fair to stand on punctilio, when you know the disadvantages attending my situation here. You ought to be doubly attentive pour me soulager. It is not so practicable to send some miles from home twice a week as you imagine. Poor Dr.
The French king, after some hesitation between punctilio and convenience, resolved to employ violence upon the person of this troublesome stranger, since milder remonstrances had not been able to influence his conduct; but this resolution was not taken till the return of a courier whom he despatched to the chevalier de St.
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