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He hurried over his work for the afternoon, and Miss Loder, the secretary whose services he and Owen shared in common, was secretly surprised, not to say shocked, by his flippant behaviour over a monograph supplied by a valued contributor. "It's a bit stodgy, eh, Miss Loder? You can feel the ecclesiastical hand upon the pen-holder, can't you?"
Suppose he should see me now, involved in these insane developments? He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy not with truth. I chuckled half-heartedly, my last chuckle, by the by, for a long time. Unknown to me and unsuspected, the darker, more deadly side of the adventure was steadily drawing near.
She says I'm stodgy; but I say it's better to be practical than flighty. Don't you think so, Alf?" "Exackly!" said Alf, in a tone of the gravest assent. "Exackly." vi "I mean," pursued Emmy, "you must have a little common-sense. But she's been spoilt she's the youngest. I'm a little older than she is ... wiser, I say; but she won't have it.... And Pa's always made a fuss of her.
And, what's more, bless your stodgy old heart, some day I'll get there." "Not in England, at any rate," I suggested. He stared at me a moment, his eyes suddenly charged with dreams. Then, characteristically, he snorted. He flung his hand out with a gesture that should push the present further from him.
She set her wine-glass down and toyed with the stem. Then she looked up at him under her eyelashes with that old daring look of hers, and repeated: "And love, Peter. But real love, not stodgy humdrum liking, Peter.
Expectation is continually piqued. A and B and C do not help you to induce D; when you reach Z you may imagine you find a slight trace of reincarnation. Not that the surprises are invariably pleasant. The very force and self-confidence of the American girl doubly and trebly underline the undesirable. Vulgarity that would be stolid and stodgy in Middlesex becomes blatant and aggressive in New York.
Then, my boy, when you look stolid you won't be romantic. You'll be stodgy, my boy. That's what you'll be!" Of all words in the dictionary there is surely none worse than this one. The suggestions of stodginess are appalling, including, even at best, hints of overweight, general uninterestingness, and a disposition to sit at home in smoking-jacket and slippers after one's evening meal.
Marie was not disappointed in the letters; they were what she would have expected. But sometimes, as she read their terse and uninteresting sentences, their stodgy bits of information, she smiled to think how marriage changed a man. How dull it made him! How irritating and constrained it made him! How prosaic!
'What was that? said Herbert with unfeigned curiosity. 'Why, you said even though Sabathier had failed, though I was still my own old stodgy self, that you thought the face the face, you know, might work in. Somehow, sometimes I think it has. It does really rather haunt me.
It published an exceedingly dignified and stodgy leading article, drawing the largest and finest words from the dictionary, and weaving them with extraordinary art into sentences which would have been creditable to anyone bent upon imitating the style of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
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