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There were, first of all, Mr Kenwigs and Mrs Kenwigs, and four olive Kenwigses who sat up to supper; firstly, because it was but right that they should have a treat on such a day; and secondly, because their going to bed, in presence of the company, would have been inconvenient, not to say improper.
You can persuade your father, I dare say, but you cannot persuade me. Fanny has divorced herself from my heart for ever." "I am sorry for that." "And I'm bound to say that you are doing the same. It is better in some cases to be plain." "Oh certainly; but not to be irrational." "I am not irrational, and it is most improper for you to speak to me in that way." "Well, good-bye.
"Well, as an instance, it seemed to me very queer indeed to hear her and other young ladies speaking in your teachers' prayer-meeting. I never heard of such a thing, at least not among cultivated people." "And you thought it improper?" "Almost yes, quite perhaps. At least I should never do it." "Were you at Mrs. Burton's on the evening in which our society met?"
Speaking mere common sense will by no means do; and I must speak not only correctly but elegantly; and not only elegantly but eloquently. In order to do this, I will first take pains to get an habitual, but unaffected, purity, correctness and elegance of style in my common conversation; I will seek for the best words, and take care to reject improper, inexpressive, and vulgar ones.
There apparently she had really done responsible work. But upon the question of labour Mr. Grammont was fierce, even for an American business man, and one night at a dinner party he discovered his daughter displaying what he considered an improper familiarity with socialist ideas.
At the proper time he presented the requisite documents to his underwriters, and claimed the loss, amounting, on ship and cargo, to one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. On account of alleged improper conduct on the part of the captain, united with informality in the papers, the underwriters refused to pay the loss.
What could have been conventionally more proper what more improper than that he should have persistently have remained at home?
'No, it is not madness. I know all about you, Ralph told me everything. 'It surprises me very much that he should have spoken about me. It was not like him. I hope that he didn't tell you, that he didn't suggest that there were any improper relations between me and him. 'I daresay that you were virtuous, more or less, as far as your own body is concerned. Faugh!
Well, eat your fist, and keep the other for to-morrow." He considered it highly improper to do the dramatic in other people's presence. What, he hadn't worked, and yet the bakers kneaded bread all the same. Did she take him for a fool, to come and try to frighten him with her stories? "Do you want me to turn thief?" she muttered, in a dull voice. My-Boots stroked his chin in conciliatory fashion.
Characterization is merely one ingredient of the dramatic art, and not dramatic poetry itself. It would be improper in the extreme, if the poet were to draw our attention to superfluous traits of character, at a time when it ought to be his endeavour to produce other impressions. Whenever the musical or the fanciful preponderates, the characteristical necessarily falls into the background.
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