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So, turning a beguiling face toward the unsuspecting Michael beside her, she said: "You're a fine driver, aren't you, Michael?" "'T is experience ivery man nades; I've had me own," observed Michael, complacently. "It must be very hard to drive four horses at once."
Here, in a tone of triumphant confidence, the answer rang from the Biamite's lips: "There the slanderer stands revealed! Now you are detected, now I perceive the meaning of your threat. Because, miserable slave, you cherish the mad hope of beguiling me yourself, you do your utmost to estrange me from your master. Gula, you say, visited Hermon in his studio, and it may be true.
There is an extra butler to be obtained when the function is a sufficiently grand one to warrant the expense, but as he wears carpet slippers and Pina flirts with him from soup to fruit, we find ourselves no better served on the whole, and prefer Cecco, since he transforms an ordinary meal into a beguiling comedy. "What does it matter, after all?" asks Salemina.
Under this feeling, it was my habit to sit in a remote part of the cell, and to take no share whatever either in the conversation or in the coarse practical jokes with which they were in the habit of beguiling the tedium of their confinement. There was one occasion, however, on which I felt myself suddenly caught by an interest in their proceedings.
I was to come there whenever I could and liked; whenever I wanted to "rest my feet," as she said; especially I might spend as much of every Sunday with her as I could get leave for. And she made this first afternoon so pleasant to me with her gentle beguiling talk, that the permission to come often was like the entrance into a whole world of comfort.
Although the scenario of "Lee Fourberies de Scaramouche" has not apparently survived, yet we know from Andre-Louis' "Confessions" that it is opened by Polichinelle in the character of an arrogant and fiercely jealous lover shown in the act of beguiling the waiting-maid, Columbine, to play the spy upon her mistress, Climene.
She began to talk again; to resume certain correspondences; to show herself once more at any rate intermittently the affectionate, sympathetic, and beguiling friend. As for Meredith, he knew little, but he suspected a good deal.
But I think you sometimes remember, as you muse, in these dull years, those gay moonlight nights on the banks of the Rowanty. These memories are beguiling, and while they possess me, my drama does not march. But you have not been wearied, I hope, my dear reader, by this little pencil sketch of the brave horse artillerymen.
Now my new motives made me eager to discover some means of controlling and beguiling my thoughts. In this state, the manuscript of Lodi occurred to me. In my way hither, I had resolved to make the study of the language of this book, and the translation of its contents into English, the business and solace of my leisure. Now this resolution was revived with new force.
'The harp of Quantock' was silenced for ever by the torment of opium. But proportionably it roused and stung by misery his metaphysical instincts into more spasmodic life. Poetry can flourish only in the atmosphere of happiness. But subtle and perplexed investigations of difficult problems are amongst the commonest resources for beguiling the sense of misery.
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