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"Indeed," said Tamara, the fine in her grasping the situation, the Underdown training resenting its unconventionality. "Yes," he continued, unconcerned. "You can't look at that face and feel we any of us matter much can you?" "No," said Tamara. "How many thousand years has she been telling people that? But it drives me mad, angry, furious, to see the tourists! I want to strangle them all!"
"I shouldn't have urged you to come, but I was hoping you would like it its picturesqueness, the unconventionality, and the dozen-and-one other things which appeal to me so strongly. In my enthusiasm, perhaps I exaggerated." "I can't see anything picturesque in discomfort," Miss Rathburn retorted.
Underneath the surface he was conventional after the conventions of western New York and Albany. Politicians thought it unconventionality. Bostonians thought it provincial. Henry Adams thought it charming. From the first sight, he loved the Governor, who, though sixty years old, had the youth of his sympathies. He noticed that Mr.
Is it not rather the cold, luminous truth that the American girl found out that Bar Harbor, without her presence, was for certain reasons, such as unconventionality, a bracing air, opportunity for boating, etc., agreeable to the young man? But why do elderly people go there?
And could my prayers avail, All my joy should be Dead, and I would live to weep, So thou might'st win one hour of quiet sleep! It is difficult to convey the effect of this song upon its hearers. The strangeness, the unconventionality of the recitative, the wonderful, sad beauty of the poem, the dim light through which Helen's vibrating, passionate voice thrilled, all helped to impress the hearers.
It was quite unlike the conventional girl's voice; there rang in it the freedom of the lonely valley, the towering hills, the freedom and unconventionality of the girl's own figure and face and wind-tossed hair; and in it was a note of dignity, of independence, and of a pride which was too proud for defiance.
His verse deals not only with the beautiful and the romantic, but also with the prosaic and the ugly, if they furnish true pictures for the panorama of real life. The unconventionality and realism of his poetic art will be made manifest by merely reading through the titles of his numerous works.
He left the note unsigned and asked his secretary to have it sent by hand to Berkeley Square. When it had left him past recall, he felt that he could have done better; and he knew that he would have done best of all by not writing. . . . But he was irritated by her too insistent unconventionality; irritated and yet rawly elated by his ascendancy over her.
There is a convention of unconventionality: poor quarters, hard life, stinted pleasures all that kind of thing. I fear its effect upon you. 'What choice have I? exclaimed Alma, moved to familiar frankness. 'If I am poor, I must live poorly.
He turned to her after a moment, a faintly quizzical expression about his eyes. "I won't intrude upon you," he said. "I can go and trespass elsewhere, you know." Priscilla was not as a rule reckless. A long training in her stepmother's school had made her cautious and far-seeing in all things social. She knew exactly the risk that lay in unconventionality.
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