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He was, moreover, suspicious of neglect, and vindictive when neglected; querulous of others, and intolerant of reproof himself; exigeant among men, and more than politely flattering among women.
"My fellow-citizens," says he, "will pardon me, or perhaps will rather thank me, for that when the Republic fell into the power of one man I neither hid myself nor did I desert them; nor did I idly weep, or carry myself as though angry with the man or with the times; nor yet, forsooth, so flattering the good fortune of another, that I should have to be ashamed of what I had done myself.
What is more to the point, at your age, or no, for you are much older than your conversation would lead one to believe, but in my careless days I offered to die for her mother. I swore I could not live without her. That is always a mistake. It is too flattering, besides being untrue. Perhaps she so regarded it. In any event another man fared better or worse.
Judique used to say I would 've been a good pianist if I'd had any training, but then, I guess he was just flattering me." "I'll bet he wasn't! I'll bet you've got temperament." "Oh Do you like music, Mr Babbitt?" "You bet I do! Only I don't know 's I care so much for all this classical stuff." "Oh, I do! I just love Chopin and all those." "Do you, honest?
"Because I was afraid of you," replied he. "I did not realize it, but that was the reason." "Afraid of ME," said she. "That's very flattering." "No," said he, coloring. "In some mysterious way I had been betrayed into thinking of you as no man ought to think of a woman unless he is in love with her and she with him. I am ashamed of myself.
He resolved for the future not to utterly condemn the school of ugliness, perceiving a possibility that in man beauty may be but the flattering exception, a chimera in which the race struggles to believe. "What can be the ideas, the morals, the habits, of such a being? What is he thinking of?" thought Blondet, seized with curiosity. "Is he my fellow-creature?
"Put me to my bed," said he again thickly, and his eyes blurred with the utmost weariness. "Put me to my bed. O God! what is on me now? Put me to my bed." "Dugald! Dugald! Dugald!" she cried. "My darling brother, here is Mary with you; it is just a turn." But as she said the flattering thing her face was hopeless.
At this period, when the Consulate for life was only in embryo, flattering counsels poured in from all quarters, and tended to encourage the First Consul in his design of grasping at absolute power. Liberty rejected an unlimited power, and set bounds to the means he wished and had to employ in order to gratify his excessive love of war and conquest.
His countenance is plain, but intelligent and highly pleasing, and his manners perfectly elegant and easy. His reception was kind, and, I am given to understand, highly flattering. We sat, however, trammeled with the formality of state, and our conversation did not extend beyond kind inquiries and professions of friendship.
Slow: it has to be slow, and to keep gestures slow when you cannot make them mere illustrations of what you are singing well, I am sure, it is very kind of you to be so flattering about it but it is difficult to do that." "And you thought them all out for yourself?" said Olga. "Marvellous!" "Ah, if I had ever seen you do it," said Lucia, "I am sure I should have picked up some hints!
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