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"What is it?" The question was savage. With his extraordinary instinctive amiability Louis smiled naturally and persuasively. "You're wanted at Mrs. Maldon's, Bycars. Awfully sorry to disturb you." "Oh!" said the dressing-gown in a changed, interested tone. "Mrs. Maldon's! Right. I'll follow you." "You'll come at once?" Louis urged. "I shall come at once." The door was curtly closed.
I know his head-piece Is all right, and I imagine his amiability is only a little foreign blood working its way out. He will be with us in the Sixth at Christmas." "Delightful prospect. What I want to know is how are we to settle this business as far as he is concerned? Ought Moore to know?" "I don't think so. Never trouble Corker more than you can help, old man.
Except in that one phrase above quoted he never complained of his social oppressors, so far as I remember, in his writings. His perfect amiability was one of his most striking characteristics, and in a nature fastidious as was his in its whole organization, it implied a self-command worthy of admiration.
Nothing but the thought of the recompense in the coming supper could have sustained Mrs. Upjohn's doomed guests in the prospect before them. Extracts from Baroness Bunsen, and buttonholes in canton-flannel charity nightgowns, and a hot July afternoon, made a sum of misery that was almost too great a tax upon even Joppian amiability. "I say it's a shame!" cried Bell Masters, in unconcealed wrath.
When they take snuff, they throw back their head, insert the point of the flask in their nose, and shake a dose of tobacco into it. They then, with the greatest amiability, offer it to their neighbour, he to his, and so it goes round till it reaches the owner again.
He would have torn the other to pieces and reveled in the doing. He bellowed forth threats against Good Indian and the Harts, young and old, and vaunted rashly the things he meant to do. Heat-mad and drink-mad he was, and it was as if the dam of his wily amiability had broken and let loose the whole vile reservoir of his pirate mind.
Thinking over it afterwards, I felt that I ought to make an apology. He received my sincere excuses with an amiability of manner, and a grace of language, which raised him greatly in my estimation." There you have Lord Harry's own words! Who would suppose that he had ever been jealous of the man whom he spoke of in this way?
But at teas, dinners, luncheons, and receptions people chattered with amiability or in suavity about the hostile demonstrations at Havana against Americans, the Spanish Minister's letter, Spain's demand for the recall of Consul-General Lee, the dying reconcentrados, the exploits of the insurgents, and the general possibilities of war.
"The feeling, sir, is mutchual." Mr. Badcock bowed with much amiability. "Is time an object with you?" "None whatever, sir. I am on a holiday." "Will you be my guest to-night?" "With the more pleasure, sir, after my experience of the inns in these parts.
"I wouldn't mind writing a letter of angry recrimination or heartless satire to some suitable recipient; in fact, I should rather enjoy it, but I've come to the end of my capacity for expressing servile amiability. Eleven letters to-day and nine yesterday, all couched in the same strain of ecstatic thankfulness: really, you can't expect me to sit down to another.
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