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They turned in surprise at Hodshon's entrance and rose to greet Charity with the homage due so great a client. Charity could hardly bespeak them civilly. They took her curtness for snobbery, but it was not. It swept over her that these people were laughing over her most sacred tragedy. She advanced on the operator and put out her hand for the headpiece he wore.
The front door stood open, and a couple of seamen lounging on the broken steps made way for him civilly as he entered and rapped on the bare boards with his stick. Mr. Smith, clattering down the stairs in response, had some difficulty in concealing his surprise at the visit, but entered genially into a conversation about the weather, a subject in which he was much interested.
In the midst of it, at the entrance of the new bridge we heard ourselves civilly saluted and recognized with some hesitation the donkey's harness-maker who, in his Sunday dress and with his hat on, was not just the work-day presence we knew.
All I say is, what step is the best to take, so as to reject these advances civilly and delicately, and without hurting his feelings too much, and driving him to despair, or anything of that kind? My goodness me! exclaimed Mrs Nickleby, with a half-simper, 'suppose he was to go doing anything rash to himself. Could I ever be happy again, Nicholas?
Whenever Waverley approached the cottage dooi the sentinel upon duty civilly, but resolutely, placed himself against it and opposed his exit, accompanying his action with signs which seemed to imply there was danger in the attempt and an enemy in the neighbourhood.
In consequence of this delay, just as I set off at full speed from the door, Mr Coningham rode round the corner of the house. 'What a devil of a hurry you are in, Mr Cumbermede! he cried. 'I was just coming to see you. Can't you spare me a word? I was forced to pull up, and reply as civilly as might be. 'I am only going for a ride, I said, 'and will go part of your way with you if you like.
He was a tall, spare man, with sloping shoulders and a long sour face, of which, as I entered, he gave me the full benefit. I looked round the room, but look as I might I could see no one else, nor anything that explained what we had witnessed and I accosted the man civilly, wishing him good evening.
There he had parleyed with the Indians for near a week before he could persuade the Half King and three of his tribesmen to accompany him as guides. Buffeted by unceasing storms, they toiled on to Venango, where there was an English trading-house, which the French had seized and converted into a military post. Chabert de Joncaire commanded, and received the party most civilly.
Certainly there must have been some quality in the air of Delgratz that produced strange happenings. Stampoff could scarcely speak civilly to a woman, ever since a faithless member of the fair sex brought about his downfall in Delgratz a decade earlier. Small wonder, then, that Alec should express surprise at such display of gallantry on his part!
With such capacity for development, it is incomprehensible that you should so long have remained stationary. You ought to be all toads by this time, at the very least." "I beg your pardon," civilly interposed the Butterfly. "To what condition were you pleased to allude?" "To that of a Caterpillar," rejoined the Philosopher.
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