"The Chronicles of Clovis" [.]

[fiefoe]

The last couple of stories were more fantastical and on balance I prefer the earlier ones.

• To think of all the adorable things there are to eat in the world,
• Mrs. de Ropp was the ground plan on which he based and detested all respectability.
• A look of triumph began to blaze in his eyes that had only known the wistful patience of defeat.
• ...to which Lucas invariably replied that all kindnesses were doubtful. Which was perhaps true.
• "So many boys nowadays seem to think that quarrelling with one's family is a recognized occupation."
• These eat in the nervous, detached manner of roebuck feeding in the open, and keep anxious ears cocked towards the orchestra for the first hint of a recognizable melody.
• ... the facial expression of enthusiasts who are punctuating potage St. Germain with Pagliacci is not beautiful, but it should be seen by those who are bent on observing all sides of life.
• It is the penalty and the safeguard of genius that it computes itself by troy weight in a world that measures by vulgar hundredweights.
• that merciless faculty which finds as much joy in the ninetieth time of telling as in the first
• Mrs. Momeby's temper began to shine out through her grief.
• A steeper slope of heather and bracken dropped down into cavernous combes overgrown with oak and yew. In its wild open savagery there seemed a stealthy linking of the joy of life with the terror of unseen things.
• "One just true enough to be interesting and not true enough to be tiresome,"
• "They have the air of people who have bowed to destiny and are not quite sure whether the salute will be returned."
• "I'm always having depressing experiences;" said the Baroness, "but I never give them outward expression. It's as bad as looking one's age.
• The aunt, who had been unobtrusively poor / well-knit figure.
• the craven boldness of the practised peacemaker / "You poor little strawberry-leafed nonentity,"
• All else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.
• It was one of those exuberant peaches that meet you halfway, so to speak, and are all over you in a moment.
• .. the NEW INFANCY, a paper that has been started with the idea of making the NEW AGE seem elderly and hidebound.

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