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Updated: May 10, 2025
Her appearance presented a valiant attempt at smartness. The tea came at last, and Tuppence, rousing herself from a fit of meditation, poured it out. "Now then," said Tommy, taking a large bite of bun, "let's get up-to-date. Remember, I haven't seen you since that time in hospital in 1916." "Very well." Tuppence helped herself liberally to buttered toast.
The permanent population, dressed in the stiffness of its Sunday best, escorted gingham wives or sweethearts; a dozen outsiders like myself tried not to be too conspicuous in a city smartness; but the great multitude was composed of the men of the woods. I sat, chair-tilted by the hotel, watching them pass.
We boast greatly of our smartness. It is time we were up and dressed to prove it. There appears to be a great quantity of conceit around, especially concerning women. The statement was recently set afloat that a well-known lady had admitted that George Meredith understands women better than any writer who has preceded him.
And what if there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is aversion, contempt, repulsion, what then? So you will have to 'keep up your appearance, too. Is not that so? Do you understand what that smartness means?
"No, sir," I said. "Well. It's worth more than the King's crown," he said. "But I thought it was only sums, sir." "Yes," he said, with a strange smile. "But some sums have to do with a great deal of money. Now I want you to think tonight of something to the value of twenty pounds or so. I want to give you something as a reward for your smartness. Don't decide at once. Think it over.
"And she is very much in society here, isn't she?" "Yes. That's natural, too, with her smartness and all." "What kind of society is it?" "Hey? What kind? Why, it's the genuine gilt-edged kind, I should say. I never saw such clothes, nor such dinners, nor dances. It " "Hush! Yes, I can believe all that. You wouldn't be likely to see them in Trumet.
Say: 'To the ordinary class of readers this exquisite work may appear less brilliant than the flippant smartness of' any other author you like to name; 'but to the well educated and intelligent every line is pregnant with, etc. By the way, when we come by and by to review the exhibition at Burlington House, there is one painter whom we must try our best to crush.
We talked once with a Western man of considerable age and experience who had the placid mind that is sometimes, and may more and more become, the characteristic of those who live in flat countries of illimitable horizons, who said that New Yorkers, State and city, all had an assertive sort of smartness that was very disagreeable to him.
He lacked the trimness of the soldier; of the debonair smartness of the modern fighting man there was no trace whatsoever in his speech or appearance. The politicians who were likely to be present she knew. What was there left? An explorer, perhaps, or a colonial. Her curiosity became imperious. "You have not told me your name," she reminded him. "My name is Maraton," he replied, a little grimly.
"No; he wasn't communicative; didn't seem to have much to go upon. Of course one can't tell what the fellow has at the back of his mind, but I was rather surprised that a Londoner of his energy and smartness should spend his time loafing about down here with what seems a poor chance of any result; and I nearly told him so." "Perhaps it is as well you didn't," Gifford replied.
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