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She had seen the last part of the drama in front of the village; and she was too frightened even to notice the curious imperturbability of her little son. But there was no orderly retreat after Little Shikara had heard the two reports of the rifle.
How did it feel, eh?" said Laurence, with a sort of weary imperturbability, filling his pipe and pushing the pouch across the table to his friend. "Bad. Ah, that's right! Instead of fooling about 'cleaning' guns at such times, fill your pipe. That's the right lay, depend upon it." Laurence made no reply, but lighting up, puffed away in silence. His thoughts were wandering from Hazon.
When Will had come to her, being once satisfied in her immediate motherly agony that his life was not endangered, she allowed her mind a sort of secret, fierce delight at his performance and its success in the main issue. She was proud of him at the bottom of her heart; but before other eyes bore herself with outward imperturbability.
The indignant Duchess haughtily remarked: 'The Prince of Wales would not think of passing through a gate before me. 'That may be; but I represent the Queen, replied Lord Houghton, with unruffled imperturbability.
After the death of his young wife, years before, Hiram Carmody had surrounded himself with a barrier of imperturbability beyond which even his son never ventured. Cold and unyielding, men called him a twentieth century automaton of big business. Rarely, outside of banking hours, did the two meet. Never but once did they hold extended conversation.
"I don't quite see why unless, of course, you wanted to," the girl answered, tapping the arm of her chair with impatient finger-tips, eyes on the clock. "But of course it isn't necessary I should see." Her cavalier treatment of him did not affect the gentle imperturbability of the Westerner.
Pawle maintained a professional imperturbability; Mrs. Killenhall looked mildly excited on hearing this new theory. But from Miss Wickham, Viner got a flash of intelligent comprehension. "The real thing is this," she said, "none of us know anything about Mr. Ashton, really. He may have had enemies." Pawle rubbed his chin; the action suggested perplexity. "Miss Wickham is quite right," he said.
If imperturbability could ever be good humor, then he was always good-humored. Presently the cowboys began to understand him, and then to like him. When they liked a man it meant something. Madeline had been sorry more than once to see how little the cowboys chose to speak to Boyd Harvey. With Castleton, however, they actually became friends.
Her face, surrounded by black draperies, looked as purely tinted as a flower, and the excitement of the moment had made her eyes brilliant and flushed her cheeks. The imperturbability of Lord Hurdly's face relaxed. His lips parted; a smothered sound, as of surprise, escaped him. Certainly at that moment Bettina was nothing less than bewilderingly beautiful.
We must enter it it undher the head of let me see! it must go in the spirit account, undher the head of Profit an' Loss, Your good health, Mr. Connell! Nancy, I dhrink ta your improvement in imperturbability! Yes, it must be enthered undher the" "Faix, undher the rose, I think," observed Pether; "don't you know the smack, of it?
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