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id: 28303
title: The Smart Set: Correspondence & Conversations
author: Fitch, Clyde
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  One thing, I know: most of these marrying foreigners that come over Of course I know you are having a wonderful time in Rome with Royalties Of course poor papa looks a little what that amusing young But of course what you want to know about most is the people and what Anyway, it isn''t polite for a little baby to come right away like that. "society" a good deal again, for I said when Rob comes out he will want I think I shall come to love her for her own sake, and I am very impatient to know you, but I think we shall be great friends, Of course he is; and in time I know I shall be able This place is a very good sort, rather like a little English Paris; Of course, as you know, there is no such thing as a real


id: 17476
title: Talks on Talking
author: Kleiser, Grenville
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  social, business, and public life, the subject of correct speech should The best tones of the speaking voice are the middle and low keys. A good speaking voice should possess the qualities of purity, resonance, speak with half-closed teeth, the result being that the quality of voice observed may give added charm to conversation and public speaking. The best counsel for public speakers in the matter of story-telling may Every public speaker has certain characteristics of voice and manner Every man who essays to speak in public should cultivate a judicial Care in conversation will guard the public speaker from days, but we can at least each have a cultivated speaking-voice, an speaking voice as the instrument of expression and the natural outlet The throat as a vital part of the public speaker''s work in speaking is the same style, the conversation will become general, the great man


id: 18207
title: Coffee and Repartee
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
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  you think men''s morals are rather lax in this matter of umbrellas, Mr. Whitechoker?" he added, turning from the School-master, who began to "But you returned it, of course?" said the Idiot. "It is very kind of Mrs. Smithers, I think," said the School-master, "to "There, Doctor," said the Idiot; "that''s handsome of the School-master. "I prefer the breast of the chicken, Mrs. Smithers," observed the Idiot, "I say," said the genial gentleman to the Idiot, as they passed out into "It appears to me," said the Bibliomaniac to the School-master, "that "I think you men are crazy," said the School-master, unable to contain "Good-morning, gentlemen," said Mrs. Smithers, entering the room at "Good-morning!" said the Idiot, cheerfully, as he entered the "The Idiot is right," said the Bibliomaniac. "Excuse me for having an opinion," said the Idiot, "but the man of "So do I," said the Idiot; "and if Mrs. Smithers will pardon me for


id: 18881
title: The Idiot
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
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  "I decline to put my mind on a canal-boat," said Mr. Pedagog, sharply, "You will kindly remember, Mr. Idiot," said Mrs. Pedagog at this point, "It is for the Idiot, Mary," said Mrs. Pedagog, coldly. "Certainly, Mary," said the Idiot, perceiving Mrs. Pedagog''s point. "And what, may I venture to ask," said Mr. Pedagog, glancing at the Idiot "Yes," said the Idiot, calmly, "and I think Mrs. Pedagog ought to sue the "No, Mrs. Pedagog," said the Idiot, "don''t pay any attention to me, I "In that event I shall probably live five years more," said the Idiot. "That''s a very good idea," said the Idiot. "Nor we, Mrs. Pedagog," said the Idiot, with a pleasant smile; "for, as I "You flatter me, Mr. Pedagog," said the Idiot. "That''s a good idea for a play," said the Idiot. "She couldn''t find a better fellow, Mr. Idiot," said Mrs. Pedagog, and


id: 27830
title: Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
author: Conklin, Mary Greer
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  delightful conversation in France--Leading the talk--Topics for host and hostess--The dominant note in table-talk--General and dinner--Drawing guests out--Signaling for conversation--General and Good conversation is the nimbleness of mind to take the chance word or Good conversation, then, is the give and take of talk. and laws of good conversation is the best kind of talk. Stevenson again, "that a person should be a good gossip and talk Duty to Host and Hostess--The Dominant Note in Table-Talk--General hostess in the entire table-talk, while conversing volubly with others. conversation as is talking one''s self, good listening demands the same conversation which is the backbone of all good talk. Conversation-Circle--Children and Their Interruption--Good Talk principles of good conversation and interesting table-talk. There can be no good conversation at table where the talk _Conversation Is Reciprocal--Good Conversationalists Cannot Talk to _Conversation Is Reciprocal--Good Conversationalists Cannot Talk to _Subjects for Conversation; Book Talk_


id: 31143
title: Talkers: With Illustrations
author: Bate, John
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  The power to talk, like every other natural power of man, is designed back, winked with his left eye, cast a significant glance at Mr. Hungerford, and said, "Mark, sir, what I am going to say:" then, bending friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail." "A man that "I do not think," said Mr. Smith--a truly godly man--to Mrs. Lane--who "I have heard," said Mr. Webster, "that he is a quarrelsome kind of man, "He says a great many things, I tell you," said Mr. Reporter. "You have had fine times," he said, "in your Church with Mr. Good, and said, as he was too far gone to speak, ''Brother, if you feel happy "I see no harm in wishing a good thing like that," said Miss Bond--"a appearances of things._ A man may speak never so well, or act never so "Mr. Smith is a very excellent man," said a friend of mine one day in


id: 34863
title: Conversation: Its Faults and Its Graces
author: nan
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  express acts of a moral bearing, compared with our words, are rare and none of them converse, like man, in expressive words, however they may simple a thing as the expression of our thoughts by words,--if we do not would sound a little pedantic, in colloquial style, to use the word already understand the meaning of the word "case," as applied to nouns We all understand the meaning of the word "case," as it is applied to noun in the nominative case," we only mean a person or thing placed in the objective case, we only intend to express a person or thing standing a _vulgar_ error; to use the nominative instead of the objective is a _ng_, when terminating a word or syllable, as _we_ pronounce the same use of the word _quantity_, applying it to things of _number_, as "a The word should always be pronounced in _three_


id: 35017
title: Half-Hours with the Idiot
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
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  "You are right for once, Mr. Idiot," said the Bibliomaniac approvingly. "I observe with pain," said the Idiot, as he placed the Bibliomaniac''s "I didn''t know that you were such an admirer of the fair sex, Mr. Idiot," said the Doctor. "Yes, Mrs. Pedagog," said the Idiot, wearily, "I feel that way. "I''ll bet you a dollar I know what it is," said the Doctor. "Sure thing!" said the Idiot. "Sure thing!" said the Idiot. "Sounds that way, Mr. Bib," said the Idiot, "but, all the same, here''s a half the time, eh, old man?" said the Idiot affectionately. said the Idiot, "but what can a man do these days, with his bills "Well, I hope you are right, but I don''t know," said the Idiot "It almost makes my head ache to think of it!" said the Idiot. "Well, I''d like to see my system tried for a while," said the Idiot.


id: 35302
title: The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
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  "No," said the Bibliomaniac; "that''s the great trouble with the Idiot. "I don''t see how a woman could stand a man like that," said Mrs. Pedagog. "Well, old man," said the Poet, as the Idiot entered the breakfast-room "Yes," said the Idiot, "I think I got all that was coming to me, and I "Say, old man," said the Poet, later, "I really thought you sent those "Mr. Poet," said the Idiot, the other morning as his friend, the "Then we got Dubbins''s publishers to take a hand," said the Idiot. "It is one of the things the union _should_ do," said the Idiot. "You are the last person in the world to say a thing like that, Mr. Brief," said the Idiot--"you, who belong to the nearest approach to the "The man must live," said the Idiot. "Well, that''s the way the thing works," said the Idiot.


id: 39682
title: The Idiot at Home
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
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  for the Idiot''s old associates, his fellow-boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog''s "High-Class Home for Single Gentlemen," had proved "Why, do you know, my dear," said the Idiot one evening, on his return "You believe in having children at table, then, Mr. Pedagog?" asked Mrs. Idiot. "I am afraid," said Mr. Pedagog a few hours later, as he and Mrs. Pedagog were returning home, "I am very much afraid that the Idiot''s "Well, I''m sure I don''t know what to do," said Mrs. Idiot, despairfully, "But _I''d_ know they didn''t mean it," said Mrs. Idiot, smiling in spite "Mrs. Pedagog," said the Idiot, "did you ever have an attic?" "Not that I know of," said Mrs. Idiot. "But the men, Mrs. Pedagog," said the Idiot, "did you ever think of "My dear," said he to Mrs. Idiot, "I think it is time the babies got "My dear Idiot," said Mrs. Pedagog, "do you know how I have always


id: 39598
title: Asa Holmes; or, At the Cross-Roads
author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
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  first little grandson came back to the old house to spend Christmas, I "And she is right," said the old man, after an impressive pause. The old man looked up with a smile. "St. Valentine has been generous with my little Polly," said the old fragrance filled the room, the old man looked around as if half "It is like my life since she slipped out of it," the old man had It takes a man like the old "Over to the old Neal place," answered the man, handing the reins to "The last time I went East to visit my grandson," said the old man, "Take an old man''s word for it, Robert, who has lived a long time and astonishing sights the old store was to look upon that day. "The old miller says not," answered the little schoolmistress. "Well, it''s over for another year," said Bowser, welcoming the old


id: 33623
title: The Inventions of the Idiot
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
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  "Well, you know the popular superstition, Mr. Idiot," said the Poet. "Well, I don''t like to criticise," said the Idiot, "but I think the "Very likely," said the Idiot, rising and preparing to depart. "I''d like to go by rail," said the Idiot, after a moment''s thought. "Through his hat is the idiom you are trying to recall, I think, Mr. Pedagog," said the Idiot. Mr. Pedagog," said the Idiot. "Very likely," said the Idiot. "I know Professor Peterkin," said the Idiot. "I don''t think it necessary to meet it," said the Idiot. "Mr. Idiot," said the Poet one morning, as the waffles were served, "you "For plausibility, Mr. Idiot," said Mr. Pedagog, "you are to me a "I have had it in mind for some time," said the Idiot, blandly. "Very well," said the Idiot, returning to his waffles. said the Poet, who, in common with the Idiot, knew several things about


id: 43025
title: Rainy Week
author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
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  A very tall "little girl" she was, and very young, not a day sky, I saw my Husband turn suddenly with a little gasping sigh that suddenly by the somewhat strained expression of Ann Woltor''s face, "Or a boy--or a girl," interposed George Keets, a bit drily. Girl''s somewhat startled stare, young Kennilworth looked up with a "Yes, for very special reasons," said the May Girl, "I _would_ like Allan John hold as a nucleus for the New Day except a little silver "Really, you know," said George Keets, "there are times when even "Then you really would like to go?" said George Keets. "Then it must be Allan John," said the May Girl. "Oh, your Husband," said Allan John, just a bit drily, "would have "Oh, Rollins is all right enough," said Allan John. dory--George Keets with him, Paul Brenswick, Kennilworth, Rollins! George Keets and my Husband brought the May Girl down.


