...a woman's fair ? ' Surely not, sir. This is not our way, in these days — these unromantic days. ' If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be ? With a hey, nonny, nonny ! ' " " Do not tease him, Dick," said Alicia. " Poor Charlie! " "Poor Charlie?"...

...interpret in the light of the following: "Be she fairer than the day, | Or the flowery meads in May ; | If she be not fair to me, | What care I how fair she be ? " (Wither's Shepherd' s Resolution.) By popular, or perhaps genuine, etymology pulc-ra = quae placet....

...likely that he should be called upon to pretend to love her. And he sang a little song as he went, " If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be." That was intended to apply to Lily, and was used as an excuse for his fickleness in going to Miss Demolines....

...brutality." He recalled to mind a verse he had once said should be a law to every self-respecting man — " If she be not fair to me What care I how fair the be ? " " Look here, dear," he suddenly said, with less of homage but far more of honest, human...

...admiration for her beauty had in it a fascinating new ingredient. Until yesterday, he had said to himself, "If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be ? " But now, there was a vague idea that she might after all be for him, and he took enormous pleasure...

...ever been before since his return. All was going well with him. Grace would not have him. Very good. " If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she he ? " a quotation he certainly would have made, if he had known it. Unromantic as it may seem, Dick...

...cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are ? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May. If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be ? " G. WITHER. The Shepherd's Resolution. Often attributed to Sir W. Raleigh. ' Shall mortal man be...

...her immediate protection forbids any favourable consideration of his grievance, may well exclaim : " If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be Т " (г) Sec Hoirnrd v. Castle, sup., and Thornett v. Haines, sup. (a) See Bcxwell \. Christie, Crowder...

...and callous to the proprietor's interest. He will say of the river, as the lyrist said of his love, " If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be ?" Seldom having the chance of exercising his skill, he may be excused if he feels indifferent to interests...

...father of youth and beauty. MME. SARAH BERNHARDT. Someone once wrote a great thought to the effect that "If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be?" When I answer your query I am thinking of those J lines, and, as modesty is a gift of priceless value,...