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"Nothin' like burnin' wood to look hot and comf'table, is there? It don't always make you feel that way that's why I put in hot water heat but for looks and sociableness you can't beat a log fire. Smoke, do you?" "Yes. Occasionally. But, Captain Warren " "Here, try that. It's a cigar the Judge gave me over to Ostable. He smokes that kind reg'lar, but if you don't like it, throw it away.
There is a heartiness among them that is more like Cornwall than any I have known, and great sociableness. This picturesque figure in the life of her day gives charming pictures in her memoirs of the Irish society of the time, descriptions which are confirmed by contemporary writers. She was the wife of Dr. Delany, Dean of Down, the companion of duchesses and queens, and the friend of Swift.
"Then it isn't a question of property or next of kin?" said the consul. "Lord! no," said the lady vivaciously. "Why, goodness me! I reckon old Desborough could, at any time before he died, have 'bought up' or 'bought out' the whole lot of his relatives on this side of the big pond, no matter what they were worth. No, it's only a matter of curiosity and just sociableness."
Indeed, he was a very good sort of man, but such a worldling, with his thick gold chain, and jaunty clothes, and quick way of adjusting himself to passing circumstances, that it was some time before his good-natured sociableness won in the least upon the station loungers. They held aloof, as from an explosive, not knowing when it would begin to emit sparks.
There is nowhere a kindlier and more unaffected sociableness. The leading families of each little circle have one evening a week on which they remain at home. Nearly all their friends come in on that evening. There is conversation and music and dancing.
"Why," he answered, "now that you speak of it, I remember that he began by asking me if I had any marked objection to premature burial." The Captain chuckled. "The outer beach in winter ain't exactly a camp-meeting for sociableness," he said. "And the idea of that Bartlett boy tellin' you how to walk there!" "Is he a specimen of your Cape Cod youngsters?" "Not exactly.
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