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But to blaspheme against the Party was the sin for which there was no redemption. "I always thought you a serious politician!" he gasped. "Good God!" I cried. "In my public utterances have I been as dull as that? Ill-health or no, it is time for me to quit the stage." He laughed politely, because he conjectured I was speaking humourously he is astute in some things and begged me to explain.
Of course you know how wrongly I doped it out. I thought Mr. Mifflin was running with them, and I owe him my apology for that. He's laid me out once on that score, over in Philadelphia." Humourously, Aubrey narrated how he had sleuthed the bookseller to Ludlow Street, and had been worsted in battle. "I think they counted on disposing of me sooner or later," said Aubrey.
Its exclusiveness and narrowness. Rudimentary poetry an incantation or charm. Inspiration irresponsible. Plato's discriminating view. Explosive and pregnant expression. Natural history of inspiration. Expressions to be understood must be recreated, and so changed. Expressions may be recast perversely, humourously, or sublimely. The nature of prose. It is more advanced and responsible than poetry.
He had talked of the man too much, too enthusiastically, to be able to do so. A young subaltern, even if passably vulgar in figure, can be shuffled through by the aid of the heroical story humourously exaggerated in apology for his aspect. Nothing can be done with a mature and stumpy Marine of that rank. Considerateness dismisses him on the spot, without parley.
To the student of human nature there is nothing so exquisitely ridiculous on the face of the globe as the typical British audience, at a show which appeals humourously to the intellect rather than to the eye.
Half a century later, in one of the townships north of Toronto, the writer had pointed out to him a man named MacBeth weighing two hundred and fifty pounds, of whom it was humourously told that he had been carried all the way from Red River. The explanation of course was, that he had been brought as an infant on this famous Hegira of the Selkirk Colonists.
On the other hand, it has been humourously suggested that the feudal system was really introduced into England by Sir Henry Spelman, a seventeenth-century scholar. Others have maintained that, so far from feudalism being introduced from Normandy into England, it would be truer to say that feudalism was introduced from England into Normandy, and thence spread throughout France.
Macandrew, but he did not summon a messenger to go for them. Instead he raised his eyebrows in a manner that expressed the necessity of making the best of it, and humourously scratched his head. "We have four hundred pounds of new type coming out in the Almora she's due on Thursday," he said. "Entirely for the advertisements. We'll have a fine display next week.
He smiled, and his eyes twinkled humourously. "Later on, I requested him to join us in this excursion, but his servant said he had gone out, leaving no word as to when he would return. An eccentricity! I suppose he must be humoured!" Sir Roger was silent.
It had got a little exercise, Tommy replied lightly, last night and again this morning, when it had helped to convey him to and from his bed. Had he hopped? she asked brutally. No, he said; he had shuffled along. Half rising, he attempted to show her humourously how he walked nowadays tried not to wince, but had to. Ugh, that was a twinge!
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