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Alice Wigram amused Arthur Meadows artist Bentley Campden Hill Capel Curig chair cheeks clever countenance course creature cried Doris Crosby Ledgers dear dinner door Doris Meadows Doris turned Doris's dress Dunstable's eyes father feel flushed garden girl guests half hand head heard Home Secretary hostess husband Jane keep Kensington Kensington Gardens kind knew Lady Dun Lady Dunstable lawn lecture letter Lord Dunstable Lord George Bentinck lunch Madame maid marry Mead Meadows's Meanwhile ment mind Miss Field Miss Wigram moor morning mother never niece once Pitlochry promise quietly rose scene Scotch Scotland seemed silent Sir Luke smil smiling sorbed stable stood studio talk taxi tea-gown tell thing thought Doris threw tired told tone ture Uncle Charles Vavasour voice walk watching week wife woman write
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Page 142 - I often, therefore, when I want to distinguish clearly the aristocratic class from the Philistines proper, or middle class, name the former, in my own mind, the Barbarians. And when I go through the country, and see this and that beautiful and imposing seat of theirs crowning the landscape, "There," I say to myself, "is a great fortified post of the Barbarians.
Page 143 - Populace, imagine happiness to consist in doing what one's ordinary self likes. What one's ordinary self likes differs according to the class to which one belongs, and has its severer and its lighter side ; always, however, remaining machinery, and nothing more. The graver self of the Barbarian likes honours and consideration; his more relaxed self, field-sports and pleasure.
Page 139 - ... arrived at home rather early. What with the emotions of the day, the heat, and her work, she was strangely tired and overdone. After tea she strolled out into Kensington Gardens, and sat under the shade of trees already autumnal, watching the multitude of children — children of the people — enjoying the nation's park all to themselves, in the complete absence of their social betters. What ducks they were, some of them ! — the little, grimy, roundfaced things — rolling on the grass, or...
Page 2 - Kensington street, which i owned Arthur and Doris Meadows for its master and mistress. The driver turned at her call. "Hi! — Stop! You've been overpaid!" The man grinned all over, made her a low bow, and made off as fast as he could. Arthur Meadows, behind her, went into a fit of laughter, and as his wife, discomfited, turned back into the room he threw a triumphant arm around her.
Page 64 - ' 64 smallest and most degrading of passions. Why not laugh at what was odious, show oneself superior to personal slights, and enjoy what could be enjoyed? And above all, why grudge Arthur a woman friend? None of these arguments, however, availed at all to reconcile Doris to the new intimacy growing under her eyes. The Dunstables came to town, and invitations followed.