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Leaning on his stick, the man slowly shuffled up the central path toward the porch in which I was sitting, striving to get the nearest possible approach to an open-air pipe. Touching his sorry headgear, he looked at me with mild eyes of faded blue, and smiled benignly as he asked: "Could I see himsel'?"
That night, without being aware of it, Mrs. Armine crossed a Rubicon. She crossed it when she came out of the big tent into the sands to go back to the camp by the lake. While she had been with Baroudi the sky had partially cleared. Above the tents and the blazing fire some stars shone out benignly.
She did not answer him at once, but seemed to weigh his words as she looked out across the moonlight. "Ye mean, will I let ye put me in a picter?" she said at last. He nodded. "Yes," she answered. "I reckon he told ye he was a-paintin' Dusk's picter," "Mis'" Harney said to her boarders a week later. "Mr. Lennox?" returned Rebecca; "yes, he told us." "I thort so," nodding benignly.
It struck him less pleasantly that two dark faces, which had been previously regarding him in the gloom of the corridor and vanished as he approached, reappeared some moments later in Yerba's salon as Don Caesar and Dona Anna, with a benignly different expression.
But if in ninety-two you had asked him for his masterpiece, his magnum opus, his life-work, he would mention nothing that he had written, but refer you, soberly and benignly, to that colossal performance, the Quarterly Catalogue. Rare. 30s." He was in the middle of the Vs now and within measurable distance of the end.
I hope you will bear in mind how remarkably well you have been getting along at St. John's, and what a success you've made." "Success!" echoed the rector. Either Mr. Langmaid read nothing in his face, or was determined to read nothing. "Assuredly," he answered, benignly. "You have managed to please everybody, Mr. Parr included, and some of us are not easy to please.
Wherefore, my Lord, I would eftsoons advise you that, laying apart all such excuses as ye have alleged in your letters, which in my opinion be of small effect, ye beseech the King's Grace to be your gracious lord and to remit unto you your negligence, oversight, and offence committed against his Highness in this behalf; and I dare undertake that his Highness shall benignly accept you into his gracious favour, all matter of displeasure past afore this time forgotten and forgiven."
"I don't want to interrupt you," she remonstrated, "if you have anything to do." The study was occupied by three girls. Patty smiled benignly at the two haggard faces before her. "Where's Lady Clara Vere de Vere?" she asked. "She surely isn't wasting these precious last moments in anything frivolous."
He would have impressed you at once with the idea of what he really was, an Oxford scholar; and you would perhaps have guessed him designed for the ministry of the Church, if not actually in orders. Mr. Waife excites the admiration, and benignly pities the infirmity, of an Oxford scholar.
Maryland, she said, 'and were never coming to see me at all! 'Two days, said the Doctor benignly, 'two fair days my dear, since we took breakfast together. I have not been very delinquent. Though it seems I am not the first here. Good morning, Mr. Kingsland! how do you do, Mr. Burr? how do you do, Mr. Sutphen? Mr. May? Are you holding an assembly here, my dear? And by that time Dr.
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