 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 pagina’s
...transient, of a superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power; but I drew out...been in the habit of attending to these odd sort of people.21 She might indeed like her friend have perceived him as odd, but this was Nelson preoccupied,... | |
 | John Sugden - 2004 - 984 pagina’s
...transient, of a superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power, but I drew out...been in the habit of attending to these odd sort of people.50 The recipient was yet another of Herbert's nieces, a twenty-fouryear-old widow named Mrs... | |
 | Terry Coleman - 2004 - 480 pagina’s
...endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power; but I drew out of him little more than yes and no. If you, Fanny, had been...been in the habit of attending to these odd sort of people.'1 The friend might have thought Fanny was used to odd people because of her first marriage.... | |
 | John Sugden - 2004 - 984 pagina’s
...transient, of a superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power, but I drew out...the habit of attending to these odd sort of people. 50 The recipient was yet another of Herbert's nieces, a twenty-fouryear-old widow named Mrs Frances... | |
 | 1916 - 738 pagina’s
...transient, of a superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power ; but I drew out...the habit of attending to these odd sort of people. to give as a reason, ' You have been in the habit of attending to these odd sort of people ' ? The... | |
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... former taciturnity. It was impossible, during this visit, for any of us to make out his real character ; there was such a reserve and sternness in his behaviour, with occasional sallies, though very transient, of a superior mind. Being placed by him,... 
