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"And how can I tell what's the matter with 'em? They're not the kind for General Brady, and that you know as well as I." At mention of the General's name the clerk pricked up his ears. It would be greatly to his credit if, through him, their house should catch General Brady's trade. He became deferential at once. But he might as well have spared his pains.
The Major knocked, and at length a tall gentleman came forth, with a foil and mask in one hand, and a fencing glove on the other. Pendennis made him a deferential bow. "I believe I have the honour of speaking to Captain Costigan My name is Major Pendennis." The Captain brought his weapon up to the salute, and said, "Major, the honer is moine; I'm deloighted to see ye."
As he turned to come towards us, the light shining through the windows at our right, fell full upon his face, revealing such a self-absorbed and melancholy expression, I involuntarily drew back as if I had unwittingly intruded upon a great man's privacy. Mr. Gryce on the contrary stepped forward. "Mr. Blake, I believe," said he, bowing in that deferential way he knows so well how to assume.
But it turned out that his seat was between his hostess and her younger daughter, Ruth, and though Roberta was nearly opposite him at the table and he could look at her to his full content conservatively speaking he was obliged to give himself to playing the part of the deferential younger man where older and more distinguished men are present.
This power, combined with a fine intellect, an indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. And yet, he was singularly modest and deferential in social intercourse.
She's awfully sweet and deferential and 'frank' with women, but with men well, she simply tucks her head so that her shoulder-length black curls fall forward enchantingly, gives them one wistful smile out of her big eyes that are like black pansies and the clink of slave chains!... Now go on and think I'm catty, which I suppose I am!" Bonnie Dundee grinned at her reassuringly.
The answer was in his mother tongue. Ben-Hur gave the speaker a surprised look. "A Hebrew?" he asked him. The man replied with a deferential smile, "I was born within a stone's-throw of the market-place in Jerusalem." Ben-Hur was proceeding to further speech, when the crowd surged forward, thrusting him out on the side of the walk next the woods, and carrying the stranger away.
"Forgive me, sir," said the latter, with a deferential air that greatly pleased the warrior, "forgive me if I venture to intrude my own troubles on one whose anxiety must needs be greater, but this youth left my hut yesterday to visit you, saying that he knew you well, and if he has not arrived some evil must have befallen him, for the distance he had to traverse was very short."
Skinner was calm, cold-blooded, suave, politic and deferential, but in his kind of fight he never bluffed. He never played his hand until he had sufficient trumps to take the odd trick. He looked ahead now, into the not very distant future, and saw Matt Peasley, husband of the heiress to the Ricks millions, giving him orders and the vision did not sit well on the general manager's stomach.
She pushed against his shoulders with steady hands. They were not struggling hands but firm and definite of meaning, and Halloway released her. He released her readily as a man may who can afford to be deferential in his moment of victory. But when she was quite free, she stood unsteadily for a moment and then stepped back and leaned against the wall of the house.
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