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There was an air of geniality on all now, and Yan took advantage of this to ask for something he had long kept in mind. "Mr. Clark, will you take us out for a Coon hunt? We know where there are lots of Coons that feed in a corn patch up the creek." If Yan had asked this a month ago he would have got a contemptuous refusal.
"Well, grandfather," said Lily Cardew, "the last of the Cardews is home from the wars." "So I presume," observed old Anthony. "Owing, however, to your mother's determination to shroud this room in impenetrable gloom, I can only presume. I cannot see you." His tone was less unpleasant than his words, however. He was in one of the rare moods of what passed with him for geniality.
At once dropping his search for a partner, Gerald went to join this pair, thinking, as he approached, that Lily without her spectacles was beginning to have a look of Brenda, a Brenda with less beauty, but more originality; more what could one call it? geniality, perhaps.
Nicky-Nan turned about and stared at the placard as Lippity-Libby smoothed it over the paste, whistling. At that moment Un' Benny Rowett, hands in trouser-pockets, came dandering along. He, too, taking the geniality of every one for granted, halted, spread his legs wide and conned the announcement. "Oh!" said he after a pause, wheeling about. "Still harpin' on they Germans?
But as Con Hite looked at the elder man, standing helpless, his head held slightly forward, the sight apparently struck his risibilities, and his wonted geniality rose to the occasion. "An' do Mr. Persimmon Sneed always wear blinders?" he asked, with a guffaw. Peters seemed immeasurably relieved by the change of tone. "Whilst visitin' me, he do," he remarked. "Mr.
Of one thing the old gentleman was sure; the editor had not been tied up and whipped while yet alive. In spite of his easy manners and geniality, there was a dignity in him that would have made him kill and be killed before the dirty fingers of a Cross-Roads "White-Cap" could have been laid upon him in chastisement.
His impulsiveness was plain to all who approached him; his irritation quickly flashed out in words when he was crossed, and his social geniality would show itself in smiles and in almost caressing gestures when he was pleased.
All the score were out of employment, with the exception of the three sword makers, whose trade the uncertainty of the times augmented rather than diminished. To cheer up Roland, who was a young fellow of unquenchable geniality, they elected him to the empty honor of being their leader, Kurzbold's term of office having ended.
"We sure trimmed them beautiful. It was real slick. And the beauty of the play never dawned on me till the very end. It was pure and simple knock down and drag out. And the way they fell for it was amazin'." The geniality in his lazy Western drawl reassured them. He was not so formidable, after all.
Mark Snyder had been to Powells on the business of one of his clients, a historian of the Middle Ages, and in the absence of Sir George had had a little talk with Henry. And Henry had learnt for the first time what a literary agent was, and, struck by the man's astuteness and geniality, had mentioned the matter of Love in Babylon. Mr.
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