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Accordingly, the next morning, he went down to the slave "pen" to see the trader. He found him at the door of his office, a sleek, smiling, well-dressed man, very courteous and affable, having the appearance of a gentleman. "Good morning, Mr. Jennings," said the trader, "what can I do for you to-day?" "Why, M'Affee, I called down to see about a boy named Mark, one of Nelson's people.
I found him and his family at supper. . . . They seem to be plain, affable people. . . . The ambassador is a venerable old gentleman, with a full head of perfectly white hair, looking not unlike an old-fashioned wig; and this, together with his collarless white neckcloth and his brown coat, gave him precisely such an aspect as one would expect in a respectable person of pre-revolutionary days.
It was wonderful. The more he thought of it the more wonderful it was. "Oh, well " he said, "she mustn't overdo it." It was Mary he suspected of overdoing it. On Ally's account, of course. It wasn't likely that she would give the poor child away. At that point Mrs. Gale came in with the tea-things. And presently the Vicar came down to tea. He was more than courteous this time. He was affable.
He was directed by the watchman at the railroad station, a good-looking freedman, an employee of the Mayor of the town, to the widow Kennedy's. Her house was situated on a quiet street just outside the enclosure of the United States Arsenal. Cook was a man of pleasing address, twenty-eight years old, blue-eyed, blond, handsome, affable, genial in manner and a good mixer.
"Her children rise up, and call her blessed. . . ." Her children? But she had let him go, after all, without telling her secret. Mr. Langton sat and balanced a malacca cane in his hand. When his man announced the Reverend Mr. Silk, he laid it down carefully on the floor beside him. "Show Mr. Silk up, if you please." Mr. Silk entered with an affable smile. "Ah, good-morning, Mr.
His companion half sat and half lay on a divan near by. This second person was a man of height unusual to Italians of his day; his cheeks were pale and a little sunken; his dark eyes were warm, penetrating; his mouth and chin mobile and even affable, but not a line suggested weakness.
Paul was astonished to find a general so affable and pleasant, for he had seen some lieutenants and captains strut like turkey-cocks, because they wore straps on their shoulders. Paul saluted the General, and said, "I am ordered to report to you, sir." "O yes; you are Sergeant Parker, who made a reconnoissance last night; sit down, Sergeant, till I finish my letters."
With us he is quiet, simple, and affable; he does not appear to wish to avoid us, but it has never happened that he has remained alone with either of us.
This nobleman rivalled the earl of Sunderland in his credit at the council-board, and was supported by Somers, lord chancellor of England, by Russel now earl of Orford, first lord of the admiralty, and Montague, chancellor of the exchequer. Somers was an upright judge, a plausible statesman, a consummate courtier, affable, mild, and insinuating.
He was frank, courteous, and affable, while morally he was proof against the temptations that beset lads on first leaving the salutary restraints of home. He was diligent, conscientious, and most attentive to all his college duties, whether in the recitation-room, the lecture-hall, or the chapel.
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