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Updated: May 12, 2025
But the house was undergoing renovations which made it as unpresentable as a moulting fowl. Scrubbing, painting of blinds, and other perturbing processes did all they could to make it uncomfortable. The courtyard was always sloppy, and the whole condition of things reminded me forcibly of the state of Mr.
"A very unpresentable son-in-law," I read in his eye, while he was evidently astonished at his daughter's prolonged absence. Our talk flagged and the fire grew gray in its flaky ashes before Fanny again appeared. "I know, papa, you think me very rude to keep Mr. Munro so long waiting, but there were some special directions to go with the packet, and it took me a long time to get them right.
They sat very carelessly in their chairs, and were too excellent themselves to value any condition at a high rate. I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person. The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
How that sister of hers bullies her horrid little woman! And Mr. Barron!" Flaxman made an exclamation "and the deaf daughter and the nice elder son and the unpresentable younger one in fact the whole menagerie." Flaxman shrugged his shoulders. "A few others, I hope, to act as buffers." "Heaps!" said Rose. "I have asked half the neighbourhood our first big party.
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. The same discrimination of fit and fair runs out, if with less rigor, into all parts of life. The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain ends.
I was so charmed, that I mentally promised her a new silk when she went into half-mourning, and asked her to go with me to the opera as soon as she got over that feeble tendency to tears which kept her eyes red and unpresentable. "I would gladly aid you," the simple-hearted creature said, "in any attempt to make your fortune in an honorable and manly way." "Brava! brava!"
Think of this miserable man of coming political possibilities, an unpresentable boor sucked into office by one of those eddies in the flow of popular sentiment which carry straws and chips into the public harbor, while the prostrate trunks of the monarchs of the forest hurry down on the senseless stream to the gulf of political oblivion!
Her father's suffering visage warned her how flurried and unpresentable she must be growing, and the poor little thing began to cry.
Arrived at the great lake, the anxious pair did not wait even to rest, but at once embarked in their little hunting canoe. "I'm sorry you are such an unpresentable bridegroom," said the Trader, when they were about to separate. He referred to the cuts and bruises with which poor Dan's countenance was temporarily disfigured.
"Can you stand up?" he demanded; and Peter tried, and found that he could, and forgot that he couldn't. He was covered with blood and dirt, and was an unpresentable object, but he was really relieved to discover that his limbs were intact. "What's your name?" demanded one of the policemen, and when Peter answered, he asked, "Where do you work?" "I got no job," replied Peter.
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