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The boy stood looking down at him, a broad smile lighting up the dark and vivid face. Old 'Lias supplied him with a perpetual 'spectacle' which never palled. 'Coe him back, 'Lias, he's soomwheer about. Yo need nobbut coe him, an he'll coom. 'Lias looked fatuously pleased. He lifted his head and affected to scan the path along which he had just travelled. 'Aye, I daur say he's not far.
A street-car jarred to a halt beside them. The girl made a queer little gesture, as if in fear. "My car!" she flustered indistinctly, and, turning suddenly, ran from him towards it, taking refuge in its ordinariness against Goodwin and all the strangeness with which he seemed to assail her. He, smiling fatuously on the curb, saw it carry her off, swaying and grinding. "Mary," he repeated. "Mary!"
In our operations against the Chinese murder-group two years before, we had had an ally in the enemy's camp Karamaneh the beautiful slave, whose presence in those happenings of the past had colored the sometimes sordid drama with the opulence of old Arabia; who had seemed a fitting figure for the romances of Bagdad during the Caliphate Karamaneh, whom I had thought sincere, whose inscrutable Eastern soul I had presumed, fatuously, to have laid bare and analyzed.
Had he remained the shabby son of the shabby old man in the Toy Shop, her heart would still have followed him. So, fatuously hopeful, Ralph stayed. He stayed until five, until half-past five. Until a quarter of six. And he talked of the glories of war! Derry grew restless. As he sat in the rose-colored chair, he fingered a tassel which caught back one of the curtains of the wide window.
His very loyalty to the forms and fabric of English life kept him fatuously content with the mean truckling and meaner domineering of his position of butler. On the other hand, the loyalty of an American to the American idea would tend to make him aggressive and self-confident.
She flushed with double delight delight at this flattery and the deeper delight a woman feels when a man shows her the weakness in himself by which she can reach and rule him. "I'm always afraid of offending your delicacy," he went fatuously on. "You're the only person I ever felt that way about. Absolutely the only one.
"Of course, you will dispute the will," she remarked, fatuously, to Catherine. "Oh no," Catherine answered, "I like it very much. Only I wish it had been expressed a little differently!"
They were all so fatuously contented with their environment. Sheltered from birth, their anxiety was chiefly how to make life pass the pleasantest. They occasionally showed a spasmodic excitement over the progress of a cricket or polo match. Their achievements were largely those of the stay-at-home warriors who fought with the quill what others faced death with the sword for.
He ceased speaking, and sat gripping his pipe grimly between his teeth, whilst I stood staring at him almost fatuously. Then "Evidently you have much to tell me," I said, with forced calm. I drew up a chair beside the settee and was about to sit down. "Suppose you bolt the door," jerked my friend. I nodded, entirely comprehending, crossed the room and shot the little nickel bolt into its socket.
Lee, who had at times a fashion of putting a question in a most fatuously simple and childish manner. "Oh, I don't suppose he is really captain of anything now," replied Mrs. Morris. "I don't know how he happened to be captain, but I suppose he must have been a captain in the regular army." "I suppose he hasn't any business, he is so very rich?" "Oh yes; he has something in the City.
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