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He placed his hat by his chair, drank his tea quietly, said very little and ate less, flipped his fingers once or twice at the little girl in a friendly way, looked quite imperturbable, and all the time was painfully ill at ease, and raging inwardly at Jim's delay. When Lucy left them in quest of fruit, he turned furiously on his mate. 'What's that she says about staying?
We are not all patient Grizzels, by good fortune, but the most of us human beings with feelings and tempers of our own. Men, whether lay or clerical, suffer better the flame of the stake than a daily inconvenience or a pointed sneer, and will not readily be martyred without some external circumstance and a concourse looking on. An imperturbable demeanour comes from perfect patience.
A thousand to one that the prisoner did not show the white feather; in spite of the immense odds, this was not listened to; so generally was the prisoner's character established for imperturbable firmness. At this moment a general buz announced the commencement of some profounder interest: a trampling of horses outside announced the arrival of Captain Nicholas with his escort from Walladmor.
"Your honor," laughed Kendric, "fits well in your mouth, Ruiz Rios, but rides light in the scales." "You mean you would want proof?" Rios was imperturbable. "It may be given you in due time, but only when it is too late for you to make any stock out of it. Now, for what you know, I offer you your own safety and that of Miss Betty. Have I not marked how you look at her?" He laughed in his turn.
In front of it a fringe of elms, of all trees the tree of most established principle, bordered the stretch of turf between the gravel drive and road; and these elms were the homes of rooks of all birds the most conventional. A huge aspen impressionable creature shivered and shook beyond, apologising for appearance among such imperturbable surroundings.
Conversation Is Reciprocal Good Conversationalists Cannot Talk to the Best Advantage without Confederates As in Whist, It Is the Combination Which Effects What a Single Whist-playing Genius Cannot Accomplish Good Conversation Does not Mark a Distinction among Subjects; It Denotes a Difference in Talkability The Different Degrees of Talkability Imperturbable Glibness Impedes Good Conversation Ease with Which One May Improve One's Conversational Powers.
So passive was he, that many among merchants judged they had impressed him, and returned again and again to the charge; but when they found always the same imperturbable front, the same mild neutrality of demeanor, they melted sadly away, and were seen no more, leaving their places to be taken by others equally hopeful and as sure to be betrayed.
"Very likely," said the Professor, imperturbable as ever, "but they're remarkably suggestive to me. They establish for one thing the fact that, in all probability, Jacob Herapath had those notes on him when he was murdered." "Don't see it," retorted Mr. Halfpenny. "He got the fifty one-hundred-pound notes from the bank at three o'clock in the afternoon.
His air of imperturbable unconsciousness defied examination; and as he would not, and Flora could not, expound, that injured individual was compelled to pocket up her wrongs.
He pointed to the girl, an unwholesome creature, with a cast in one eye and a bristling wolf-tooth. Makamuk was angry, but the Pole remained imperturbable, rolling and lighting another cigarette. "Make haste," he threatened. "If you are not quick, I shall demand yet more."
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