Overbrilliant

Lucy was certainly very fresh that morning ; she pawed the gravel, champed her bit, tossed her head, and looked ready for a race indeed. Not being an overbrilliant rider, I firmly refused my uncle’s invitation to mount the mare, and he took her himself. Aileen and Nora sprang into their saddles, and the phaeton, drawn by a couple of sturdy ponies, was left for Biddy, Oona, and myself.

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Thanks to the mounting and the libretto of Captain Alfred Thompson, supplementing his own tuneful if not overbrilliant music, Mrs. Lillian Russell Solomon has scored a hit with Pepita, given for the first time at the Union-square theater this evening.

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We remained here quietly for an hour, when the stillness was broken by a slight stir in the water above, and looking in the direction we could barely discern two or more figures moving, by the aid of the not overbrilliant starlight.

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he central incident would be more significant in a tale of martyrdom than in a love-story. The sanctity of the heroine is hardly as convincing as is her womanly quality; the book, like others of the school, shows small sense of the great spiritual forces at work in the age with which it deals. This story of a saint makes far deeper appeal to sense than to soul. Another book of the class, The Wanton, by Frances Forbes-Robertson, dealing with the Holy Roman Empire under Frederick II, hardly needs mention, except as confirming the point, that, in the hands of these new writers, all history bids fair to come before us as a long succession of amorous moments. This story, which has indeed " a thrill in every line," is written in an overbrilliant style, possessing more glamour than grammar.

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