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When the American is most dashingly assertive it is a sure sign that he feels the pack behind him, and hears its comforting baying, and is well aware that his doctrine is approved. He is not a joiner for nothing.
She ought to have been back from Morto Bay and lending a hand here, but she had not turned up. All sorts of surmises. Now we hear she has landed our right flank attack very dashingly and that we have stormed de Tott's Battery! I fear the South Wales Borderers are hardly strong enough alone to move across and threaten Sedd-el-Bahr from the North. But the news is fine.
'Perhaps he has mentioned it to Sir George, and Sir George is going to do something. 'I thought he had forgotten all about it, said Mrs. Knight. 'But he never gives a thing up, Henry doesn't. Sarah drove dashingly up to the door in a hansom. 'Take that back again, commanded Aunt Annie, cautiously putting her nose outside the front-door.
He held his partner more jauntily and redoubled his attention to the dance, occasionally whispering some sally into Caroline's ear to show how much at ease he was, and how dashingly he could "carry it off."
"It was too much twaddle for him," he had said in reply to Ethelyn's questions as to whether he would like to see what Aunt Van Buren had written. Now, however, she did not offer to show him the letter, but crumpled it nervously in her pocket, and going to her piano, began to play dashingly, rapidly, as was her custom when excited.
She was not three steps away, and from the trim leather leggings, above which her kilted skirt swirled, to the thick sweater and Tam that she wore, she seemed to Van Mater the most dashingly correct damsel he had ever seen.
In spite of his verbal agreement with her opinion, his look crossed hers dashingly, like a challenge, a novelty in the amicable harmony which had been the tradition of her life. She felt that tradition to be not without its monotony, and her young blood warmed. She gazed back at him silently, wonderingly, frankly.
He carried out his instruction as well as he knew how. The boat came dashingly in, flinging the spray gallantly aside as she ducked and plunged in the short sea. Casely saw that Ellington was going wrong. For an instant he had an ungenerous thought. "Should I save him?"
Then action began, dashingly. "Why, Mr. Canning!" cried Mrs. Heth, heartily, rising. "What a very pleasant surprise! So you're back with us again? Delightful!" Mr. Canning came forward; he bowed with fine civility over the proffered hand, voicing great pleasure in this remeeting. And then his eye went flitting, with a certain interrogativeness, from mother to daughter.
"And thou also, Zabastes!" retorted the King with a dark smile, jestingly drawing his sword and pointing it full at him, then, as the old Critic shrank slightly at the gleam of the bare steel, replacing it dashingly in its sheath, "Thou also! ... and thine ashes shall be cast to the four winds of heaven as suits thy vocation, while those of thy master and thy master's King lie honorably urned in porphyry and gold!"
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