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He listened to the tritest saying that fell from the lips of our extraordinary companion with devotional rapture, and secretly took down notes of his conversation. I fancy that the extraordinary man saw this, and was a little pleased with it. When the train reached the junction, we assembled in the waiting room for the connection.
Whatever Mrs. Emlyn might have said in reply was interrupted by the rush of the children towards her; they were tired of play, and eager for tea and the magic lantern. THE room is duly obscured and the white sheet attached to the wall; the children are seated, hushed, and awe-stricken. And Kenelm is placed next to Lily. The tritest things in our mortal experience are among the most mysterious.
Lady O'Gara had often wondered, she had been wondering, wondering, during the last few days how they should greet each other, what should be the first words to pass between them. The half-dreaded, half-looked-for moment had come, and the greeting was of the tritest. "We have arrived, you see," said Mrs. Comerford. "We caught the Irish Mail last night instead of staying the night in London."
But the organ was not so repressive, and as she listened she knew that the tragedy was not hers alone. While his fingers strayed to the improvising of his yearning and despair the woman sat spellbound, and finally he swung into that tritest of time-worn airs, "Home, Sweet Home." A gasp came into Marcia's throat.
No doubt the saying is exaggerated; but still, what a gloomy and profound sublimity in the idea! what a new insight it gives into the hearts of the common herd! with what a strange interest it may inspire us for the humblest, the tritest passenger that shoulders us in the great thoroughfare of life!
"Do you think so?" said Hoffland, smiling. "Yes: what I have said is the tritest truth. That women admire these qualities excessively, and that men, especially young men, shape their conduct by this feminine feeling, is as true as that sunlight." "I deny it." "Very well; that proves further, Charles, that you have not observed and studied much." "Have you?" "Extensively."
The clodhopper might be conscientious in a change of creed, but as to the advantage I have over him from superior knowledge! Knowledge, Tom! what do I know what does the greatest and the best of us know to venture on a saying somewhat of the tritest but that he knows nothing?
I was shortly bidden to give my mind to other than worldly things; and with that he began a homily, which lasted for many a weary mile, upon the vanities of the world and the glories of Paradise a homily of the very tritest, upon subjects whereupon I, myself, could have dilated to better purpose than could His Ignorance.
This is why the tritest utterance about the past, youth, early love, and the like, has always about it an indefinable flavour of poetry, which pleases and affects. In the wake of a ship there is always a melancholy splendour. The finest set of verses of our modern time describes how the poet gazed on the "happy autumn fields," and remembered the "days that were no more."
It was all very strange, upside down: what rot that was about the infinite capacity for taking pains! He supposed it wouldn't do to make this public, the tritest maxims were safer for the majority; but it was too bad; it spread the eternal hypocrisies of living. He asked Miss Mathews: "You're not thinking of getting married, are you?
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