He is such a gentleman; — and, at the same time, the most abstract and the most concrete man that I know.
Abstract and concrete!
You are bound to use adjectives of that sort now, Miss Palliser, if you mean to be anybody in conversation.


Ch. 74 - Phineas Redux (1874)


He is such a gentleman; — and, at the same time, the most abstract and the most concrete man that I know. Abstract and concrete! You are bound to...

He is such a gentleman; — and, at the same time, the most abstract and the most concrete man that I know. Abstract and concrete! You are bound to...

He is such a gentleman; — and, at the same time, the most abstract and the most concrete man that I know. Abstract and concrete! You are bound to...

He is such a gentleman; — and, at the same time, the most abstract and the most concrete man that I know. Abstract and concrete! You are bound to...