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"I fancied perhaps you might feel that our Society -hers is an unsatisfactory profession for young girls!" Cecilia saw the back of Hilary's neck grow red. She turned her head away. "Of course, there are many very nice models indeed," said the voice of Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace.
Tallents Smallpeace is in the drawing-room. She was just speaking of the girl to Stephen. Won't you come in, and arrange with her quietly?" Hilary looked at his sister-in-law for a moment without speaking, then said: "I draw the line there. No, thank you. I'll see this through myself." Cecilia fluttered out: "Oh, but, Hilary, what do you mean?" "I am going to put an end to it."
Purcey, with his accustomed shrewdness. Stephen gave him the look with which he was accustomed to curdle the blood of persons who gave evidence before Commissions. 'This fellow is impossible, he thought. The little black bees flying below Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace's dark hair, done in the Early Italian fashion, tranquilly sucked honey from Stephen's face.
Cecilia's cheeks went a very pretty pink. "Oh, that's my little daughter." "Really! Have you a daughter as big as that? Why, she must be seventeen!" "Nearly eighteen!" "What is her name?" "Thyme," said Cecilia, with a little smile. She felt that Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace was about to say: 'How charming! Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace saw her smile and paused. "Who is the young man with her?"
He was also temperamentally distrustful of anything too feminine; and Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace was undoubtedly extremely feminine. Her merit, in his eyes, consisted of her attachment to Societies. So long as mankind worked through Societies, Stephen, who knew the power of rules and minute books, did not despair of too little progress being made.
But be Nature ever so kind to them in this respect, yet through want of cultivating the Tallents she bestows upon those of the Female Sex, her Bounty is usually lost upon them; and Girls, betwixt silly Fathers and ignorant Mothers, are generally so brought up, that traditionary Opinions are to them, all their lives long, instead of Reason.
By the simple inversion of the first two words, the substitution of z's for t's, without so fortunately making any difference in the sound, and the retention of that i, all London knew him now to be the rising pianist. He was a quiet, well-mannered youth, invaluable just then to Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace, a woman never happy unless slightly leading a genius in strings.
Stephen consulted Cecilia with one of those masculine half-glances so discreet that Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace intercepted it without looking up. She found it rather harder to catch Cecilia's reply, but she caught it before Stephen did. It was, 'You'd better wait, perhaps, conveyed by a tiny raising of the left eyebrow and a slight movement to the right of the lower lip.
Ward says that he shall leave England in the last steamer, in time to see the American eagle spread his wings, and with the stars and stripes in his beek and tallents, sore away to his knativ empyrehum. " American Paper.
B. can be so disagreeable; even now she's not on terms with him! And suddenly the thought of Mr. Purcey leaped into her mind Mr. Purcey, who, as Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace had declared, was not even conscious that there was a problem of the poor. To think of him seemed somehow at that moment comforting, like rolling oneself in a blanket against a draught.
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