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You are the tenth since yesterday morning," smiling and bowing blandly, "and the only one that could read intelligibly. Elocution, you see, is my hobby. I forgot to say," looking up from his paper, after a pause, "the salary is six hundred dollars not enough, perhaps, for a lady of your merit but quite as much as we can afford to give. This I call a modicum."
And then you must consider the object, and all the good you can do, indirectly, by a little Talk on Altruria." He answered, blandly: "A little Talk on Altruria? How in the world should I get money by that?"
"Nothing," said the colonel blandly, "unless that state were also the STATE OF ARKANSAS! Then, sir, as a former member of the Arkansas BAR I might be able to assist your memory and er even corroborate your confession."
"Certainly not," said Col. Mason, blandly. "There will be delays." This was not his first pilgrimage to Mecca. Mr. Johnson looked at him gratefully. "Oh, yes; of course, delays," he assented; "most natural. Have something." At the end of the appointed time, the office-seeker went again to see the Congressman. This time he was admitted without question, and got the chance to state his wants.
Yes, isn't it splendid to have such perfect weather? Marcia, you remember Mister ah " Perry was passed on to a younger lady, evidently the daughter of the house. "Howdy do?" murmured the latter, shaking hands listlessly. "How do!" returned Perry brightly. "Bully night, eh!" "Yes, isn't it?" drawled the young lady. Then Perry gave place to Wink. "Good evening," said Wink, grinning blandly.
Gaston shrugged his shoulders, lit a cigarette, and smiled at Mrs Pulchop. 'My dear lady, he said, blandly, 'pray attend to your medicine bottles and leave my domestic affairs alone; you certainly understand the one, but I doubt your ability to come to any conclusion regarding the other.
"That's what I mean," said the inspector; and, as Thorndyke at this moment turned and opened the window, our visitor began to ascend the steps. "I've just called to ask if I could have a few words with you, Doctor," said the inspector, as he reached the door. "Certainly," Thorndyke replied blandly. "If you will go down and wait with Dr. Jervis, I will be with you in five minutes."
He had been supplanted, quoad doctor, in the house of this rich, eccentric, railway baronet, and he would show that he bore no malice on that account. So he smiled blandly as he took off his hat, and in a civil speech he expressed a hope that Dr Fillgrave had not found his patient to be in any very unfavourable state. Here was an aggravation to the already lacerated feelings of the injured man.
"I shouldn't wonder if you were right, Mrs. Rapkin," said Horace blandly; "you see, you had been exerting yourself over the cooking, and no doubt were in an over-excited state, and, as you say, those camels had taken hold of your imagination until you were ready to see anything that Rapkin saw, and he was ready to see anything you did. It's not at all uncommon.
"He was," answered the professor blandly, "and he knew more about the classics than, I fear, you do, my dear Hardman. At all events, he understood what was meant when he was called 'the Cincinnatus of the West' and he lived up to the ideal, otherwise we should have had no American Republic. "But let us not drop to personalities.
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