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He was a man of about thirty, rather showily dressed, with a gold chain dangling from his vest. "Johnny," he said, addressing the errand-boy "do you want to earn ten cents?" "I should like to," answered the boy, "but I am going on an errand, and can't spare the time." "It won't take five minutes," said the young man. "It is only to take this note up to Mr.
The first fact is this: Nearly everything that is the matter with the world can be traced back to the fact that people have, when one studies them closely, two sets of ears one set that they look as if they used, put up more or less showily before everybody on the outside, and another entirely secret or real set inside, that they seriously connect up with their souls and themselves and really do their living with.
It was, probably, the holiday expression of the vast, prosperous commercial class, with unlimited money, and no ideals that money could not realize; fashion and comfort were all that they desired to compass, and the culture that furnishes showily, that decorates and that tells; the culture, say, of plays and operas, rather than books.
In February, 1836, the acute and able Mexican, Santa Anna, led across the Rio Grande a force of several thousand Mexicans showily uniformed and completely armed. Every one remembers how they fell upon the little garrison at the Alamo, now within the city limits of San Antonio, but then an isolated mission building surrounded by a thick adobe wall.
Caroline's curiosity led her, after her first anger had cooled, to make occasional calls, the observations of which she faithfully reported to Eunice. The latter never betrayed any interest in them, save once. This was when Caroline came home full of the news that Victoria had had the room where Naomi died opened up, and showily furnished as a parlor.
Of the two men occupying the front seat, both under the age of thirty, the one sitting on the right and acting as driver was tall, showily dressed, and of a haughty, aristocratic air; while his sharp features, which set out in the shape of a half-moon, the convex outline being preserved by a retreating forehead, an aquiline nose, and a chin sloping inward, combined to give him a cold, repulsive countenance, fraught with expressions denoting selfishness and insincerity.
Graham, and the moment 'Lena's eye fell upon her, her fears vanished, while she could hardly repress a smile at the idea of being afraid of her. She was a short, dumpy, florid looking woman, showily, and as 'Lena thought, overdressed for morning, as her person was covered with jewelry, which flashed and sparkled with every movement.
I know a souvenir for this occasion." He smiled and bought more gold. Aileen stacked it up showily, if a little repentantly. She did not quite approve of this his plunging and yet she did; she could not help sympathizing with the plunging spirit. In a few moments it was on the board the same combination, the same stacks, only doubled four thousand all told.
Leave it to me; I'll find you a charming apartment. I know one to be had a bargain, a bagatelle, five hundred naps a-year. Cost you about two or three thousand more to furnish tolerably, not showily. Leave all to me. In three days you shall be settled. Apropos! horses! You must have English ones. How many? three for the saddle, two for your 'coupe'? I'll find them for you.
We had not been praying many nights when one Sunday evening I saw in the front seat underneath the gallery a showily dressed man with a very hard face. A large diamond was blazing from his shirt front. He was sitting beside one of the deacons.
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