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Lucky ones who had bought of it diffidently, discreetly, with modest visions of four and a half per cent in their unimaginative minds, saw their dividends doubling, trebling, quadrupling, finally soaring gymnastically beyond all reason. How he juggles figures; how grandly they roll off his tongue. How glib he is with Nathan Haynes's millions. "This, ladies and gentlemen, is our mail department.
I looked down upon her. She was so pretty and so dear to me: I must keep her, and if those were the only terms upon which she would stay with me I must accept them. The landlady came into the room at this minute followed by the maid to lay the luncheon; in the landlady's hand was a fat, black book which she presented diffidently to Viola. "It's the Visitors' book, ma'am," she said.
The Temperance and Protection Home Club for Girls was in a solemn, five-story, white sandstone structure with a severe doorway of iron grill, solid and capable-looking as a national bank. Una rang the bell diffidently. She waited in a hall that, despite its mission settee and red-tiled floor, was barrenly clean as a convent. She was admitted to the business-like office of Mrs.
"Of what are you thinking, Monsieur?" she asked, in a soft key. He started, looked up and laid the pipe on the sill. "Frankly, I was thinking that nothing can be gained by keeping us prisoners here." He told the lie rather diffidently. "Not even forgiveness?" The lids of the gray eyes drooped and the music ceased. "Forgiveness?
There are," he added somewhat diffidently, "one or two other reasons why I should prefer not to say anything further, but I would like to assure you that the explanation one of your friends suggested is not the correct one. I ventured to make this, at least, clear to Miss Hamilton." Mrs. Acton regarded him with a suggestive smile. "Mr. Martial was not effusively pleasant to you.
He would have done better to have sat down; Mr Kay's greeting, when it came, was not worth waiting for. "Sit down, Kennedy," he said, irritably rebuking people on an empty stomach always ruffled him. "Sit down, sit down." Kennedy sat down, and began to toy diffidently with a sausage, remembering, as he did so, certain diatribes of Fenn's against the food at Kay's.
Come, John, the Colonel, who is no relative of the king's minister of police, has not the trick of concealing his impatience. He has something important to say to Madame, and we are in the way. Come along, AEneas, follow your faithful Achates; Thalia has a rehearsal." Fitzgerald thrust his pipe into a pocket. "Good night, Madame," he said diffidently; "and you, countess."
And it was the same little man who offered his services in another way when he said, diffidently to Hume: "I have some experience with coms, Hunter. Do you wish me to send your message and take over the unit until you return? I gather," he added with a certain delicacy, "that it will not be expedient for your gearman to engage in that duty now."
"When your conviction of a truth is not merely in your brain but in your being, you may diffidently vouch for its meaning." He discouraged any tendency a student might have to construe book-knowledge as a necessary step to spiritual realization. "The RISHIS wrote in one sentence profundities that commentating scholars busy themselves over for generations," he remarked.
He was exceedingly well-dressed. A moment's pause followed his appearance. Then: "Why, it's our old friend, the kid!" cried Jeems. "Don't let me interrupt," begged the youth diffidently. "No interruption. End of round one," panted Jeems. "Glad you came. Bertie, here, was twisting my delicate clavicle most cruelly. Know Hench and Beck there?"
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