What led her particularly to desire horse-exercise was a visit from Captain Lydgate, the baronet's third son, who, I am sorry to say, was detested by our Tertius of that name as a vapid fop "parting his hair from brow to nape in a despicable fashion" (not followed by Tertius himself), and showing an ignorant security that he knew the proper thing to say on every topic.
You insult her in-telligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.
When joys have lost their bloom and breath And life itself is vapid, Why, as we reach the Falls of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid?
You insult her in-telligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.