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Because many writers have shot shafts of satire and ridicule at convention and custom, and because of the enormous reading public, the artificial nature of convention has been emphasized to that large part of the community that desires to be different merely for the sake of being different, and there is built up a conventional unconventionality.
"In the first place," said Edith Caldwell brightly, "you know, Arthur, that I ought not to be in Boston at all, when I have so much to see to at home; and in the second place Aunt Calvin is shocked at the unconventionality of my being seen any where in public after the wedding cards are out; but I was determined to see this picture.
Pained at the intelligence, he sighed heavily, and was on the point of sitting down upon a rustic bench close at hand when a melodious, gladsome voice hallooing his name broke in upon his meditation. He looked up and perceived Miss Maggie Windsor skipping down the lawn with charming unconventionality. "Lord Brompton, Lord Brompton."
"It has all come about through her unconventionality." He pulled his beard and lifted his ragged eyebrows. "It really is much wiser for innocent people, such as Cynthia, to keep a tight hold on the conventions. They have their uses. They have their place in the scheme. But she never could see it, and look at the result." "But then don't you think she'll win?" "No one can tell."
The American mind the Bostonian as well as the Southern or Western likes to walk straight up to its object, and assert or deny something that it takes for a fact; it has a conventional approach, a conventional analysis, and a conventional conclusion, as well as a conventional expression, all the time loudly asserting its unconventionality.
Besides, unconventionality is really the salt of our over-civilized life, and she has it in abundance. She doesn't merely pretend to it. It is part of her." "She may grow out of it in time." "I hope she won't," said Lady Sellingworth, rather decisively. "If she did she would lose a great deal of her charm." "Well, but when she marries?" "Is she thinking of marrying?"
With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability. An amusing incident of many years ago comes back to freshen his memory.
If I did not know you so well, I would say you were playing at candour. This this unconventionality of yours would have led you into curious pitfalls, Adrian, had you been obliged to live in the world.
He looked at Chichester and smiled. "You have no objection, I hope?" His words and manner evidently brought the curate to a sense of his own unconventionality. He held out his hand. "I beg your pardon. Your coming in surprised me. I had no idea" his blue eyes went searchingly over Malling's calm face "that you could be here.
"You two arranged the whole affair, and of course, as I'm only the bride, it wasn't necessary to consult me at all!" "Exactly," smiled Endicott; "I'm red-blooded, you know, and romantic and when I go in for little things like unconventionality, and romance, I go the limit. And you don't dare refuse!" She looked up into his eyes, shining with boyish enthusiasm: "I don't dare," she whispered.
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