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"A nice-looking man, isn't he? a really nice-looking man," whispered Mme. Desclavettes. And indeed he really thought so himself. Gesture, attitude, smile, every thing in M. Costeclar, betrayed the satisfaction of self, and the assurance of a man accustomed to success.
Simon McGillivray, we received from them the most friendly and full assurance of the cordial endeavours of the wintering partners of their company to promote the interests of the Expedition.
I said that I thought that we, as a Government, were pledged to try to bring about something more definite than what he suggested as a limit, but that I would report what he had told me. He then passed to general topics. He was emphatic in his assurance that what Germany wanted was increase of commercial development.
"You will find so many thousand pounds at your bankers';" or, "You may look to me for so many hundreds a year." But there was not a word. The girl had come to him without the assurance of a single shilling. In his great endeavour to get her he had been successful. As he thought of this in the carriage, he pressed his arm close round her waist.
Thus the tension of hope long deferred, which renders Waterloo unique among battles, rose to its climax. Each side had striven furiously for eight hours in the belief that the Prussians, or Grouchy, must come; and now, at the last agony, came the assurance that final triumph was at hand.
Its demand to that the thing came back was above all for courage and good-humour; and the value of this as a general assurance that is for seeing one through at the worst had not even in the easiest hours of his old Roman life struck the Prince so convincingly.
Be this as it may, there is no doubt that the old Whig statesman lacked those gifts or arts which make a man widely popular in a large society of superficial acquaintances. On his deathbed he said with touching pathos, "I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart." The friends needed no such assurance.
Greatly astonished by this information he started for Paris immediately, and went at once to the minister, who seemed to be amazed himself, and even laughed at the baron's fears. The next day, however, in spite of the minister's assurance, Monsieur de Listomere made inquiries in the different offices.
She stood still before him, and spoke briefly in imperious tones. "What is the meaning of all this?" she asked. "Tell me the truth at once. It will be the better for you." "Madam," answered Adonis, with all the assurance he could muster, "I think your Excellency knows the truth much better than I." The Princess bent her black brows and her eyes began to gleam angrily.
"Grace won't slide if I don't, although Nan knows how to steer just as well as I do." "Of course she does," said Bess, with assurance. "We don't need a boy around," she added saucily. "They're very handy animals to have at times," said the professor, drily. "Wait a bit, Miss Riggs!" he added sharply. "First come, first served, if you please. You are number three. Wait your turn."
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