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Updated: May 11, 2025
Until she had joined Lady Susan at Villa Mon Reve, she had never been out of England for, though Archibald Lovell had been fond of wandering on the Continent himself, no suggestion had ever emanated from him that his daughter might like to wander with him and the essentially un-English atmosphere of the casino still held for her the attraction of novelty.
Denton wrapped it up tactfully; but that was her daring suggestion. It took them aback at first. There were people who did this sort of thing. People of no class, who called themselves names and took up things. But for people of social standing to talk about serious subjects except, perhaps, in bed to one's wife! It sounded so un-English. With the elders it was sense of duty that prevailed.
Fragmentary the British mind might be, but in those days it was doing a great deal of work in a very un-English way, building up so many and such vast theories on such narrow foundations as to shock the conservative, and delight the frivolous.
His parents ought to turn their whole attention to making him robust and earthly, and to giving him a thicker scabbard to sheathe his spirit in. He was born in Florence, and prides himself on being a Florentine, and is indeed as un-English a production as if he were native of another planet. Mrs.
Old Sir Francis, the father, had been much the greatest of all the historians of early England, the only one who was un-English; and the reason of his superiority lay in his name, which was Cohen, and his mind which was Cohen also, or at least not English. He changed his name to Palgrave in order to please his wife.
The man was too far away for me to swear to his face, but he wore a covert-coat of un-English length, and the lamp across the road played steadily on his boots; they were very yellow, and they made no noise when he took a turn.
It was still the voice of the Baron full, energetic, intensely un-English. "Have you heard the name before, Lady Sellingworth?" "Yes," she said. "Really! What country does it belong to? Surely not to our England?" "No." Craven was not speaking at this moment, and she felt that he was listening to them.
As has been noted, Loo had easily lived down the prejudices of his own generation against an un-English gaiety, and inconsequence almost amounting to emotion. And nothing is, or was in the solid days before these trumpet-blowing times, so unwelcome in British circles as emotion.
"I think I might as well begin at the beginning," he said at last, "and work up to the kids' names gradually. Though as a matter of fact I could tell you in two words the reasons for giving them such un-English names, it wouldn't explain how I feel. And that I take it is what you are after?" "Begin at the beginning," I said. "So I will. I told you I was born at sea.
"Not that I believe in God," he added; "but I cling to the formulated expletives. "I should be extremely uncomfortable in any office. Besides, I have my doubts as to the value of intelligence in England. It is so very rare and so un-English. One suspects occasional un-English qualities drawn together for government purposes.
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