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Used to wait on the table at her father's hotel in Boomville, didn't she?" "Yes. What of that? We all know it." "Of course. It's an excellent thing for her and her father. He'll have a rich son-in-law. About two hundred thousand is his share, isn't it? I suppose old Carter is delighted?" Stacy had thought this before, but did not care to have it corroborated by this superfine young foreigner.
That laborious, out-of-door existence, which seems sordid in superfine English eyes, but which is never without the gaiety that enchanted Goldsmith and Sterne a hundred and fifty years ago. Whilst host and guest dined on the balcony, the farming folk and such of the household as could be spared were enjoying a starlit supper elsewhere.
We are all, or nearly all, struggling to be distinguished from the mass, and to be set apart in select circles and upper classes like the fine people we have read about. We are really a mixture of the plebeian ingredients of the whole world; but that is not bad; our vulgarity consists in trying to ignore "the worth of the vulgar," in believing that the superfine is better.
Of course the young man could only look unutterable things and walk away, but even in that dignified action he was conscious that its effect was somewhat mitigated by a large patch from a material originally used as a flour sack, which had repaired his trousers, but still bore the ironical legend, "Best Superfine."
He was just as much as great a master as any I ever saw, as he was a greater judge of time and Measure. It was his method, when he fought in his Amphitheatre, to send round to a select number of his scholars to borrow a shirt for the ensuing combat, and seldom failed of half-a-dozen of superfine Holland from his prime Pupils.
I knows at least half a dozen of 'em in what superfine people call the `slums' of London." "And I know more than half a dozen of 'em," retorted Robin, somewhat sharply, "in what unrefined people call the haristocracy of London." "Whew!" whistled Mister Slagg, gazing at Robin in silent surprise.
Anthony Van Dyke's father was neither a gentleman nor an ill-born person. He was "betwixt-and-between," being a silk merchant, who met so many fine folk that he seemed to be "fine folk" himself; and by the time Anthony had grown up, he actually believed himself to be one of them. If manners stand for fineness Sir Anthony must have been superfine, because he was almost overburdened with "manners."
"Each picking is with toilsome labor, but yet I shun it not, My maiden curls are all askew, my pearly fingers all be numbed; But I only wish our tea to be of a superfine kind, To have it equal their 'dragon's pellet, and his 'sparrow's tongue. "For a whole month, where can I catch a single leisure day?
Ha! you have it there, Miss Dora. But I'm afraid it is hardly for you. 'And why not, Mr Whelpdale? 'You should only read of beautiful things, of happy lives. This book must depress you. 'But why will you imagine me such a feeble-minded person? asked Dora. 'You have so often spoken like this. I have really no ambition to be a doll of such superfine wax.
You fill up your angles here with encoinieres round your walls with the Turkish tent drapery a fancy of my own in apricot cloth, or crimson velvet, suppose, or, en flute, in crimson satin draperies, fanned and riched with gold fringes, en suite intermediate spaces, Apollo's head with gold rays and here, ma'am, you place four chancelieres, with chimeras at the corners, covered with blue silk and silver fringe, elegantly fanciful with my STATIRA CANOPY here light blue silk draperies aerial tint, with silver balls and for seats here, the SERAGLIO OTTOMANS, superfine scarlet your paws griffin golden and golden tripods, here, with antique cranes and oriental alabaster tables here and there quite appropriate, your la'ship feels.
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