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Updated: June 16, 2025
A 6 o'clock tea is announced, when the company again assemble in the Admiral's cabin, where tea is served up before 7 o'clock, and, as we are inclined, the party continue to converse with his lordship, who at this time generally unbends himself, though he is at all times as free from stiffness and pomp as a regard to proper dignity will admit, and is very communicative.
And I am encouraged to flatter myself that he unbends to me more than to others. 'He is engaged, or partly, I hear; why does he not marry? 'I wish he would! Diana said, with a most brilliant candour of aspect. Emma read in it, that it would complete her happiness, possibly by fortifying her sense of security; and that seemed right.
'He is going to say something about dancing being a healthful recreation for young people, said Charles. 'You'll be disappointed, said Philip. 'It is much too hot to moralize. 'Apollo unbends his bow, exclaimed Charles. 'The captain yields the field. 'Ah! Captain Morville, I ought to have congratulated you, said Guy. 'I must come to Broadstone early enough to see you on parade.
"Here, political crises seem of little account by the side of the turning wheel. This is where the world unbends and it is well that there should be such a place. Shall we see you at the Club or in the rooms later?" "Without a doubt," Mr. Simpson assented. "For what else does one live in Monte Carlo?" "How did you leave things in town?" Mr. Draconmeyer enquired. "So-so!" the Minister answered.
The wing-covers open, and are thrust obliquely aside; the wings spring to their full width, standing up like parallel screens of transparent gauze, forming a pyramidal prominence which dominates the back; the end of the abdomen curls upwards crosier-wise, then falls and unbends itself with a sort of swishing noise, a pouf! pouf! like the sound emitted by the feathers of a strutting turkey-cock.
He looked at her as one might have looked at a child, kindly, even tolerantly. He was scarcely so tall as she was, and Penelope's attitude towards him was marked all the time with a certain frigidity. Yet he spoke to her with the quiet, courteous confidence of the philosopher who unbends to talk to a child. "In this country," he said, "you place so high a value upon the gift of life.
True talk should have more body and blood, should be louder, vainer and more declaratory of the man; the true talker should not hold so steady an advantage over whom he speaks with; and that is one reason out of a score why I prefer my Purcel in his second character, when he unbends into a strain of graceful gossip, singing like the fireside kettle.
But all of them, though they were associated with him and hoped to ride to fortune on the wave that carried him there, recognized themselves as subordinates in the enterprises he undertook. They were merely heads of departments, and they took orders like trusted clerks with whom the owner sometimes unbends and advises.
One raises the soul and hardens it to virtue; the other softens it again and unbends it into vice. The Grecian gave the two Romans an example in the games which were celebrated at the funerals of Patroclus. Virgil imitated the invention of Homer, but changed the sports.
"Circumstances alter cases," said the Superintendent blandly, scrutinizing the Havana to make sure that the outer leaf was burning evenly. "You and I are off for a jaunt in the country, Charles, and the sternest disciplinarian unbends during holiday time." "Scotland Yard, as well as the other place, is paved with good intentions," said Furneaux.
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