She was brought into a scene where all her precious time might have been absorbed in the trivialities of society.

Surely it was a strange enough contradiction of a year ago, when such meetings had seemed such trivialities in the thought of death.

She snipped off dead leaves with painstaking precision, and administered water with the jealous care of a druggist compounding a prescription; then, with her back still toward him, she gave vent to a sigh far too intense in its nature to have reference to such trivialities as plants.

What business has a man who knows nothing about the beautiful, and cannot pronounce the word view, to talk about fashion to a set of people who, if one of the quality left a card at their doors, would contrive to keep it on the very top of their heap of the names of their two-story acquaintances, till it was as yellow as the Codex Vaticanus? Wealth, too,what an endless repetition of the same foolish trivialities about it!

Nature wastes no trivialities on such grief; the mother, whose child comes in to her broken-limbed and wounded, does not give it sugar-plums and kisses, but waits in silence till the surgeon has done his kindly and appalling office,then, it may be, she sings her boy to sleep!

Besides, this labourwhether due to the industry of admiring friends, or to the ambition of the literary resurrectionistis futile; because the verdict of Time is sure, and posterity is certain to consign the recovered trivialities to kindly oblivion.

We ate an ordinary meal in an ordinary dining room, Feisul presiding and talking trivialities with Mabel and Hadad.