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Updated: June 13, 2025
Can this be my Mr. Bayne, the Mr. Bayne of our adventure, who never turned a hair no matter what mad things happened, and who was always so correct and conventional and so immaculately dressed, and so " "Stodgy! Say it!" I cried with utter recklessness. "I know I was; Dunny told me so that evening at the St. Ives. Have as many cracks at me as you like.
Perhaps the motive was twofold, an ingrained Puckish delight in the incongruous it seemed incongruous for an airy epicurean like myself to spend stodgy hours writing stodgier articles on Pauper Lunacy and Poor Law Administration and the same inherited sense of gentlemanly obligation to do something for one's king and country as made my ancestors, whether they liked it or not, clothe themselves in uncomfortable iron garments and go about fighting other gentlemen similarly clad, to their own great personal danger.
She was unenvious, because she was going to have all these things soon. Out of a rather stodgy vision of silk opera wraps and suitors who were like floor-walkers, she came suddenly out on Riverside Drive and the splendor of the city. A dull city of straight-front unvaried streets is New York.
A visit to the new house, and a careful study of each room, revealed unsuspected possibilities to Bob, whose English brain, "brought up," as Wally said, "on a stodgy diet of bedroom suites," had failed to grasp what might be done by handy people with a soul above mere fashion in the matter of furniture. They came back with a notebook bulging with measurements and heads seething with ideas.
She and Robert had always kept out of the way of stodgy, critical people, so they had been intimate with none of the punctilious who might have withdrawn themselves from a condition of things they chose to disapprove: accordingly, she found no gaps in her circle. Those who had formed the habit of amusing themselves at her house were as ready as before to amuse themselves again.
I'm sorry to be so damned emotional, but for six months I've been starved for beauty." "You used to be so matter of fact. It's very interesting to hear you say that." "Damn it all, I don't want to be interesting," laughed Philip. "Let's go and have a stodgy tea." Hayward's visit did Philip a great deal of good. Each day his thoughts dwelt less on Mildred. He looked back upon the past with disgust.
And Constance exclaimed, 'I am sure he doesn't preach! 'Oh no, nothing comes out of his mouth that he can help; trust him for that. 'Then how do you know? 'By the stodgy look of him. He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab. 'You are an ungrateful boy, said Rose. 'I am sure he must be very kind to you. 'Can't help it, said Herbert.
However, Milly's French coaxed a tolerable meal from the fat housewife whom they discovered cleaning fish in the kitchen, and even the stodgy Roy mellowed under the influence of fresh fish and a drinkable bottle of wine which he and Milly discovered somewhere. That evening, without further mishap, they rumbled into the hamlet of Poldau. For the last hour they had seen signs of the coming fête.
So I undertook then and there that a 'rickshaw should be waiting for her at the gate at eight o'clock, and she should have a stodgy grown-up entertainment to follow. She was delighted with the idea, poor little soul. The Ralstons are going to the Club dance, and of course Mrs. Ermsted also, but Tommy is giving up the first half to come and amuse Cinderella. Mrs.
We are ALL we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean....
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