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And, in addition to this happy position, he was one of those darlings of Nature, so affluent and blest in gifts of person, mind, and outward show, that it is only at the distance of posterity we ask why men of his own age admired the false, the licentious, and the cruel, where those contemporaries, over-dazzled, saw but the heroic and the joyous, the young, the beautiful, the affable to friend, and the terrible to foe!
I do wish, though, he wasn't so somehow innocent so easy so confoundedly affable and handshaking with everybody that comes along. There's a sneaky-looking stranger at the hotel rubber-heeled fellow named Higginson, with one of these black felt hats pulled down over his eyes like a stage villain that Hare never laid eyes on till to-day.
Our idea of a gentleman in relations with the Consular and Imperial police may perhaps be incorrect. Such as it is, we will try to convey it to our readers. We image to ourselves a well-dressed person, with a soft voice and affable manners. His opinions are those of the society in which he finds himself, but a little stronger.
Ten minutes later the timber kings were eating lunch, although with some embarrassment. Occasionally they eyed the railroad men, wondering if the memory of the stubborn legislative battle still lingered. But the railroad men constantly grew more affable. "Gentlemen," said Whittaker, at last, "we are not affected in this case by any interstate commerce regulations.
Now she is outside once more, on the way to her home, to a place of refuge; but her martyrdom was not yet at an end. In the carriage, the officer who accompanied her was too polite, too affable. She seemed not to understand, shrank from him, withdrew her hand. What torture!
I do not fancy that it is more difficult to stand on a steeple than on a stool, or that it is more difficult to hold on by a rope at one height than at another. I observe that men and their affairs, when viewed from a steeple, are very insignificant; but the same insight into things teaches me, when I am among them myself, to pull off my cap and be affable.
We wandered contentedly around here and there in India; to Lahore, among other places, where the Lieutenant-Governor lent me an elephant. This hospitality stands out in my experiences in a stately isolation. It was a fine elephant, affable, gentlemanly, educated, and I was not afraid of it.
So affable as almost to put others at their ease in his company, he chatted until supper was announced; regretted civilly Herbert's inability to go to the table, and gave his sister his arm into the dining-room, Mrs. Aylett following in their wake.
I own that I was half amused and half awed by the condescending bow with which he greeted my offhand nod and the affable way in which he remarked: "You are making use of your prerogatives as a member of the police, I see." The words came as easily from his lips as if his practice in affability had been of the very longest.
Lady Agnes had not a nice canvassing manner, effective as she might have been in the character of the high, benignant, affable mother looking sweet participation but not interfering of the young and handsome, the shining, convincing, wonderfully clever and certainly irresistible aspirant.
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