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Updated: May 6, 2025
Now there's all the difference in the world between that sort of put-on culture and culture in the grain, isn't there? You may train up a grocer's son to read Dante, and to play Mendelssohn's Lieder, and to admire Fra Angelico; but you can't train him up to wear these things lightly and gracefully upon him as you and I do, who come by them naturally. WE are born to the sphere; HE rises to it.
This practice excited some interest in Kua-ko, who had a little more of curiosity and geniality and less of the put-on dignity of the others, and with him I became most intimate.
This was evidently no put-on apology for the occasion, and Wyndham, as he spoke, looked as penitent as his words. "Oh, nonsense!" said Riddell, who could never stand being apologised to, and always felt more uncomfortable at such times than the apologiser. "But I say, were you much hurt?" "No, not much. I got down among their feet somehow and couldn't get up.
Her laces were always in tatters, her collars soiled, her cuffs torn, and her frills limp. I wonder what the natives thought of her in France! In London, we decided and accurately, I believe that Miss Blake, in the solitude of her own chamber, washed and got-up her cambrics and fine linen and it was a "get-up" and a "put-on" as well.
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