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Russell, who went to the shop with Alex one day, was greatly impressed with Marion's bearing. "Any one can see she is not an ordinary person," she said. "That must be because you know she is well-connected, mother," Alex replied. "Mrs. Millard could not see it." "I trust I am not quite so prejudiced," Mrs. Russell said.
'I took great pains, he says, 'with my articles, framing my style upon conveyancing and special pleading, so that it might be solid, well-connected, and logical, and enable me to get back to the Paradise of 3l. 10s. an article, from which, as I strongly suspected, my flippancy had excluded me. 'Flippancy' was clearly not in his line.
The Enchanter waited until the King and Queen had seated themselves upon their throne, and then, taking his place between them, he began solemnly: 'My name is Grumedan. I am an extremely well-connected Enchanter; my power is immense. In spite of all this, the charms of your daughter Potentilla have so fascinated me that I cannot live without her.
All of his sisters were married and well-connected, and one of them voiced the opinion of all, when she said: "Your running away, or your behaving so that you had to be sent away, is quite disgrace enough. That you are back safe, and sensible, is all any of us care to know."
Compare, again, the home conditions of the child of a well-connected British shareholder inheriting, let us say, seven or eight hundred a year, with the home of exactly the same sort of person deriving from the middle class. On the one hand, one will find the old aristocratic British tradition in an instructively distorted state.
He had only heard of the family a week or two ago, but already he persuaded himself that their reputation was national, and that his business relations with them dated back to the Settlement days. Garrison found occasion to say he'd never heard of them, and the eminent lawyer replied patronizingly that "we all can't be well-connected, you know."
And the Bible does bid us not to put our trust in princes, and, for my part, I never thought that photographs could be trusted, either." "Scorn not the nobly born, Agatha," her brother admonished her, "nor treat with lofty scorn the well-connected. The very best people are sometimes respectable.
Of course I shouldn't dream of having anyone you didn't thoroughly like the look of. 'Do you think, asked Emmeline doubtfully, 'that we should quite do? "Well-connected family" 'My dear girl! Surely we have nothing to be ashamed of? 'Of course not, Clarence. But and "pleasant society." What about that? 'Your society is pleasant enough, I hope, answered Mumford, gracefully.
The story is, therefore, clear and well-connected and so logical in its results that it has about it a finality suggesting the unrolling of the inevitable. During the Revolution the one decisive factor was shown to be almost at once money, nothing but money. The pinch was felt at the end of the first thirty days.
What a fine-looking young man he was, and how adventurous, how well-connected, how enormously rich, and what an excellent catch! She and Celeste the one innocently and the other provocatively continued the subject to the very doors of the villa. All the while Nora hummed softly. "What do you think of him, Nora?" the mother inquired. "Think of whom?" "This Mr. Courtlandt."
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