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She came back, unhurried, imperturbable, and sat down again in the armless rocker before she answered his question. So far as her manner might indicate, there had been no interruption of the conversation. He swept her with wondering eyes. She was not playing a part, not concealing sorrow. The straight, hard lines of her lean figure were a complement to her gleaming, unrevealing eyes.
The French ships were burned. The news of this disaster spread rapidly in Egypt, and for a moment filled the army with despair. Bonaparte received the tidings with imperturbable composure. "Well," he said, "we must die in this country, or get out of it as great as the ancients." He wrote to Kléber: "This will oblige us to do greater things than we intended. We must hold ourselves in readiness."
She did it despite a thousand difficulties and more than one danger accomplished it with, as the sporting people say, plenty to spare before the door behind them was opened by the attendant, and Karl Steinmetz, burly, humorously imperturbable and impenetrable, stood smiling gravely on the situation.
People in the provinces do dream; in Paris everybody is wide awake." "Monsieur," said the Marquis, with that inborn imperturbable loftiness of sang froid which has always in adverse circumstances characterized the French noblesse, "be kind enough to restore my papers. I see that you are not the man for me. Allow me only to thank you, and inquire the amount of my debt for the trouble I have given."
"One of them which set up golden images in high places and make all Israel for to sin," said my mother. "That's what Howard Hunter is!" "Oh, ... Howard Hunter!" said she. "What sort of a person may he be? And what is he doing here in Appleboro?" We told her according to our lights. Only the Butterfly Man sat silent and imperturbable. "And you'll meet him everywhere," finished my mother.
But while he spoke, his companion's face had gone back to its usual look of imperturbable coolness; the dark eye was even haughtily unmoved, till it met Fleda's inquiring and somewhat anxious glance. He smiled. "The nearest approach I ever made to that," said he, "was when I went chestnuting the other day. Can't you find some more work for me, Fairy?"
When you see what you been, Barry, I wonder you don't go out and take your own gun and blow off your head." "Buck," called Dan Barry, "so help me God, if you don't turn your face to me I'll shoot you through the back!" "I knew," said the imperturbable Daniels, "that you'd come to that in the end.
Here is my cousin; he will take the difficulty off your hands, and be a first-class Marlow at the same time." A suppressed consternation follows this announcement. Many and dark are the glances cast upon the new-comer, who receives them all with his usual imperturbable smile.
"They were certain words on red paper, and afterwards you could buy them from the shops, because people desired to have these signs to show to their friends." "Many people carried these things," said Tarling slowly, "and the sign of the 'Cheerful Hearts' was found in the pocket of the murdered man." Ling Chu met the other's eyes with imperturbable calmness.
Once she had decided to give herself up to her husband, other people's claims appeared as an impertinence beside that perfection of possession. She was less vividly aware of her own perfect possession of him. Majendie was hardly aware of it himself. His happiness was so profound that he had not yet measured it. He, too, had slipped into the same imperturbable routine.
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