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Upon the whole, a very interesting picture of Sweet-and-Twenty was on view that evening in Mr. Swancourt's house. Ultimately Stephen had to go upstairs and talk loud to the vicar, receiving from him between his puffs a great many apologies for calling him so unceremoniously to a stranger's bedroom. 'But, continued Mr.
'I only say it because you ask me to, sweet-and-twenty. In truth I feel very comfortable, but I shall be far more sure of remaining so at Eastbourne than at the Pilkingtons'. 'Eastbourne, you think? 'Nay, as you please, Bell. 'Yes, Eastbourne again. She came to her father and took his hands. 'I'm tired, tired, tired of it all, dear; tired and weary unutterably!
You chose to marry at twenty, and here you have a daughter unmarried at seven and twenty. Now I respect and love you, as you well know: but every now and then reason steps in and proves to me that I am seven years your senior which is absurd, and the absurder for the grave wise face you put upon it. So come along, sweet-and-twenty, and help me pack my buskins."
"I wouldn't wait at the window for an unmarried man, nor for a married man, either, unless he was my own husband." "Why?" he asked, again. "Because men keep best in a cool dry atmosphere. Didn't you know that?" "How did you happen to discover it, Sweet-and-Twenty?" Isabel answered with a smile, which meant much or little, as one chose.
He dropped in his chair again as if exhausted by the vehemence of his words and the emotion which prompted them. Thoroughgood contemplated him sourly. "You prate like a play-actor," he snarled. Halfman's whole being flashed into activity again. He was no more a sentimentalist but now a roaring ranter. "Because I was a play-actor once," he shouted, "when I was a sweet-and-twenty youngling."
Supposing you were to try deserting your perennially youthful bride the Great Adventure, or the High Romance, or the New Jerusalem, or whatsoever you call her. Supposing you settle down with an earthly bride say, a sweet-and-twenty one! Supposing you had to toe the line of four-meals-a-day in a country vicarage. You would know your age then. Hood looked uninterested and aloof.
She came to us through the Bonnie Lassie, guardian of the gateway from the upper strata to our humbler domain, who Pagan that she is! indiscriminately accepts all things beautiful simply for their beauty. Having arrived, Miss Holland proceeded to organize us with all the energy of high-blooded sweet-and-twenty and all the imperiousness of confident wealth and beauty.
On every occasion of his return from those intermediate absences to which he had forced himself, he had perceived that she drooped, that she was dumbly at war with the barriers that shut her youth away from change and laughter, and the natural amusements, flatteries and courtings that wait, or should wait, on sweet-and-twenty.
Surely, when she had so sternly followed the dictates of reason, there was all the more need for some good fairy to weave a miracle which should upset her plans. Something must happen! Something! At sweet-and-twenty it is so difficult to believe in the irrevocable! The journey to London was alive with memories.
O, stay and hear; your true-love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting; Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure."* *Twelfth Night.
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