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A mandarin of the sixth degree need not hesitate to mingle on terms of assured equality with other mandarins of the sixth degree, and without any guide beyond a seemly instinct he perceives the reasonableness of assuming a deferential obsequiousness before a mandarin of the fifth rank, and a counterbalancing arrogance when in the society of an official who has only risen to the seventh degree, thus conforming to that essential principle of harmonious intercourse, "Remember that Chang Chow's ceiling is Tong Wi's floor"; but who shall walk with even footsteps in a land where the most degraded may legally bear the same distinguished name as that of the enlightened sovereign himself, where the admittedly difficult but even more purposeless achievement of causing a gold mine to float is held to be more praiseworthy than to pass a competitive examination or to compose a poem of inimitable brilliance, and where one wearing gilt buttons and an emblem in his hat proves upon ingratiating approach not to be a powerful official but a covetous and illiterate slave of inferior rank?
Pellworthy and Betty and made an excuse to go out of the room after the housemaid, who had just brought in the tea for which Polke had asked. He caught her at the foot of the staircase, and treated her to one of his most ingratiating smiles. "I say!" he said, "Mr. Polke's just been telling me about what you and the cook told him about Mrs. Carswell you know.
The Cardinal of Genoa received on the fourth day a chicken stuffed with a deed to the palaces of Monticello and Soriano; the Cardinal of Parma a similarly dressed fowl which made him master of the bishop's residence at Porto with its furniture and wine-cellar; while the Cardinals Orsino, Savelli, St. Angelo and Colonna were served with food of the same ingratiating sort.
It struck Tallente that he was aware of the object of the meeting and his manner, obviously intended to be ingratiating, had still a touch of self-conscious truculence. They went into dinner, a few minutes later, and their host's tact in including Nora in the party was at once apparent.
They alternately abandoned themselves to the madness of despair or presumptuous vanity, according as they failed or succeeded in ingratiating themselves with him. Sometimes they attacked one another en masse, sometimes in small bands, sometimes in single combat, or set ambuscades for each other at every opportunity.
Dressed neatly " "That part of the description is useless," the doctor remarked; "he would change his clothes." "But could he change his voice?" Emily objected. "Listen to this: 'Remarkably good voice, smooth, full, and persuasive. And here again! 'Ingratiating manners. Perhaps you will say he could put on an appearance of rudeness?" "I will say this, my dear.
But anybody can see that he is already on the way to be a plain, well-balanced man. Somewhat earlier than usual he is losing the fanciful capricious qualities and settling down into the stiff backbone of the nation. Conversation was not abundant. Said Mrs. Omicron suddenly, with an ingratiating accent: "What about that ring that I was to have?"
Once, anent all this, I said to him, "Rourke, how many times have you threatened to discharge Matt in the last three years?" "Shewer," he replied, with his ingratiating grin, "a man don't mane aall he says aall the time."
What is your uncle's attitude toward the dog?" "Almost what you might call ingratiating. But Peter Paul that's my dog's name, you know doesn't take to uncle. He's a crotchety old doggie." "He's a wise old doggie," amended the other, with emphasis. "Has your uncle taken him out, at all?" "Once he tried to. I met them at the corner.
His air of marginality, heightened by a grey moustache and goatee a la Napoleon Third, vanished instantly; he became hospitable, ingratiating. "Why why certainly, you were down heah with Mr. Fowndes two years ago." The Colonel spoke with a slight Southern accent. "To be sure, sir. I've had the honour of meeting your father. Mr. Norris, of North Haven, meet Mr.
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