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Bomford was almost enough to turn his head. She held out both her hands. "My dear Mr. my dear Paul!" she exclaimed. "How glad I am to see you! Have you motored down?" "Obviously, my dear, obviously," the newcomer remarked, removing further portions of his disguise and revealing a middle-aged man of medium height and unimposing appearance, with slight sandy whiskers and moustache.
At any moment an objectionable art student might drop into the park to sketch the fountain, or the nurses and children, or the back of the cathedral at one end of the park, or even the low, gloomy, unimposing front of the Morgue at the other.
"Not to put it too strongly," continued the head of the family, "he hates him like the deuce." And he was not far wrong in making the assertion. The time had been coming for some time when the course of this unimposing story of true love was no longer to run smooth, and in these days Griffith was in a dangerous frame of mind.
I was really too sleepy to protest, and of course it was mine anyway. We creaked off along the dark and silent road between the pine woods. I woke up when we halted before the one hotel in Shelby a plain, unimposing country inn, despite its absurd name. I left him to put Parnassus and the animals away for the night, while I engaged a room.
He received the same office at Court which he had held under Napoleon, Grand Chamberlain, and afterwards remained a sardonic spectator of events, a not unimposing figure attending at the Court ceremonials and at the heavy dinners of the King, and probably lending a helping hand in 1830 to oust Charles X. from the throne.
He seemed to dwell on a different plane. She could not grasp what it was about him that set him thus apart. But what Isabel had said showed her very clearly that the spirit that dwelt behind that unimposing exterior was a force that counted, and could hold its own against odds. She slept at last with the thought of him still present in her mind.
Something immense and suffocating had closed about her heart. Her racing pulses had ceased to beat. A figure familiar to her a man's figure, unimposing in height, unremarkable in build, but straight, straight as his own sword-blade had bounded from the car and scaled the intervening gate with monkey-like agility.
The little company worked its way back to the Forum, not, as now, a half-excavated ruin, the gazing-stock for excursionists, a commonplace whereby to sum up departed greatness: the splendid buildings of the Empire had not yet arisen, but the structures of the age were not unimposing. Here, in plain view, was the Capitoline Hill, crowned by the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus and the Arx.
We lunched at one of the little inns that for generations have been tucked away in the narrow streets of provincial towns; this time a Cheval Blanc, with an unimposing front and a blaze of sunshine in its heart.
Patricia burst into a merry peal and even Elinor rippled with amusement at this way of looking at the matter. "'Chummy' isn't exactly the word that fits Miss Merton, Ju," she said gayly. "It sounds suspiciously like unimposing me, rather than the elegant young lady of the three-room apartment. The only thing I'm afraid of is that she'll get tired of her bargain before the week is out.
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