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He was so intent upon this one point of interest to himself that he had scarcely heard what had been said. He now turned with dignified impatience when his aunt broke in, speaking from the hearth. Miss Penelope always spoke with a greater or less degree of suddenness and irrelevance.
But she was disdainful and treated him so scornfully that at last they quarrelled or 'twas thought so for he left the country and hath not been near her for months. Good Lord!" of a sudden; "is not my Lord Dunstanwolde your Grace's distant kinsman?" "My father's cousin twice removed, your Ladyship," answered Osmonde, wondering somewhat at the irrelevance of the question.
At the very moment that the halter was being put about his neck, he was asked by the Chaplain what he had to say before he died. 'Only, says he, 'there's a woman yonder with some curds and whey, and I wish I could have a pennyworth of them before I am hanged, because I don't know when I shall see any again. There is a brave irrelevance in this very human desire, which is beyond praise.
When the Professor went to his own sitting-room he found his daughter waiting to say good-night. "Niti," he said, as he closed the door, "I don't want to seem inquisitive, but, frankly, I was astounded at the gracious way in which you treated that scoundrel Oscarovitch." "Dad," she replied, with apparent irrelevance, "do you believe in the forgiveness of sins?" "Of course not!
Tremayne was in a mood for confidences, and Sir Terence was his friend. But he hesitated. His answer to the question was an irrelevance. "It's just hell to be poor, O'Moy," he said. The adjutant turned to stare at him.
"But as both window and door are shut, it could only be imaginary." "It wasn't imaginary," muttered McCurdie. Then he laughed harshly. "My father and mother came from Cromarty," he said with apparent irrelevance. "That's the Highlands," said the Professor. "Ay," said McCurdie.
To have awakened our interest in Hamlet the Elder would, therefore, have been a superfluity and an irrelevance. This was the readiest as well as the most picturesque method of begetting in him that condition of doubt, real or affected, which was necessary to account for his behaviour. But to have shown us in action the matter of the Ghost's revelation would have been hopelessly to ruin its effect.
The passages about Mrs. Jellyby and her philanthropic schemes show Dickens at his best in his old and more familiar satiric manner. But in the midst of the Jellyby pandemonium, which is in itself described with the same abandon and irrelevance as the boarding-house of Mrs. Todgers or the travelling theatre of Mr.
The last chapter began, in an apparent irrelevance, with the name of St. Edward; and this one might very well begin with the name of St. George. His first appearance, it is said, as a patron of our people, occurred at the instance of Richard Coeur de Lion during his campaign in Palestine; and this, as we shall see, really stands for a new England which might well have a new saint.
Gladstone, must read much else besides Hansard; he must brush up his Homer, and set himself to acquire some theology. The place of Greece in the providential order of the world, and of laymen in the Church of England, must be considered, together with a host of other subjects of much apparent irrelevance to a statesman's life.
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