'Five minutes!' answered the exquisite, as pale as death, 'five seconds, or sooner if you like.' Brummell was no fool, in spite of his follies.

Round the choir rail and below the pulpit clustered many young exquisites, for this was a sovereign place from which to show off their finery.

At another time it is probable that he would have paid very little attention to so unimportant an affair; but he had long nursed a grudge against his son, and he was delighted to have an opportunity of disgracing the philosophical exquisite from St. Petersburg.

Among these is one named Mujet, the inhabitants of which are white and dress after the Chinese manner; their country is full of mountains, having white tops, and of very great extent, in which there are great quantities of musk; esteemed the most exquisite of any in the world.

it is not a question of brainsit is a question of hearts," interposes an elderly exquisite in a white hat.

In its innocent depths the things that are to be are sometimes rustling and whispering secrets, and sometimes keeping an exquisite, haunting silence.

So the Princess led the young exquisite to the august presence, and then sweetly said, "I present Mr. , who is"not Lord Blank's eldest son or Member for Loamshire, but"nephew to dear Aunt Cambridge's lady."

In the silent room, still fragrant, still echoing with her passage, he closed his book, and later his eyes, and sat with the expression of a connoisseur savoring an exquisite, a perfect impression.... * * *

Little Tommy Tucker Plays for his supper," shouted the young exquisite lounging on the platform in tan-colored coat and lavender kid gloves.

Then, with a composure of face which touches the exquisite in effrontery, we were assured that this antithesis of master and slave, of tyrant and abject natures, is really a perfect harmony.

She treated the most exquisite of her pretenders no better than she treated her Paris gowns, for the matter of that.