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Enlightened thus by the lips of the worldly-wise, Lesbia thought ruefully of the bills which her grandmother would have to pay for her at the end of the season, bills of the amount whereof she could not even make an approximate guess. Seraphine's charges had never been discussed in her hearing but Lady Kirkbank had admitted that the creature was dear.
It is while on the way that the boy looks on the face of a stranger who afterwards mixes up in his dream as the detective. There is a mistake in the printing here. There are several minutes of a worldly-wise oriental dance to amuse the guests, while the lovers are alone at another end of the garden. It is, possibly, the aptest contrast with the seriousness of our hero and heroine.
He was more worldly-wise than I was, even then; for while I had been busy with briefs and court-work, he had been the "business head" of the firm, out among business friends and acquaintances "mixing," as they say and through his innumerable connections, here and there, with this man and that fraternity, bringing in the cases that kept us employed. He was a "Silver Republican"; I, a Democrat.
Jack looked across the room into the keen, worldly-wise old face. "How?" he inquired. "From her. I found it out the moment she mentioned your name. I conducted the conversation in such a manner that she had frequently to say it, and whenever your name crossed her lips she gave herself away." Jack shook his head with an incredulous smile.
But it is not worth while to trouble oneself about Mr. Stryker; he is certainly old enough, and worldly-wise enough to take care of himself. If he actually has any such views, his time will be sadly thrown away. But it is much more probable that he is really in love with Mrs.
I am too old, too experienced, too worldly-wise, too prosaic for you in every way. You must marry a girl who has never loved before. You must have the first and best of a woman's heart. You must have 'The True Romance. "That, Piers, will always be the wish and prayer of "Your loving friend, Piers' hands were steady enough now.
Alas! ingratitude is not confined to republics. We thought it a most kind and judicious thing to grant nine days, when but three or four six at the most had been asked. Worldly wisdom would have said, "No, sir; three days you can't have; it must all be done to-morrow night." But we are not worldly-wise; innocent, confiding, and rejoicing, we went our way, went our way to the plumber.
But the worldly-wise old man possessed a broad tolerance for the frailties of human nature, and his smile held nothing of contempt, but only a whimsical humour touched with kindly understanding. "I know you better than that, my dear," he answered quietly. "But I often think of what I once heard an old working-woman, down in the village, say.
Heretofore, Tommy has been crazy about the slapstick comedians of the movies; but I rather admire his taste if he likes this Hazel Gray. I really think she's lovely." "So she is," Ruth said quite placidly. "But she is so much older than your brother " "Pooh! only two or three years. But, of course, Ruth, it's nothing serious," said the more worldly-wise Helen.
She was, as I have said already, a childishly small and slight creature, the kind of woman to touch one with suggestions of helplessness and lack of will; and yet, notwithstanding this, a celebrated artist a shrewd, worldly-wise old fellow who had painted her portrait, had complained that he was not satisfied with it because he had not done justice to "the obstinate endurance in her eye."
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