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He had the grace to pull off his hat the first time he had bared his head to a woman in many a long day and he paused, awkwardly searching in his mind for the ingratiating thing to say. What he finally blurted out was not at all what he intended. "You think I'm a coarse, rude fellow, Miss," he said with the air of a whipped schoolboy.
Do you think for one minute I'd miss a junket like this? Why, I'd go if it killed me! The Galbraiths are nice folks an' have been good to Bob and Willie. Besides," she added with ingratiating candor, "I want to see where they live. An' they're goin' to send the automobile for us, that great red one imagine it! I ain't been in an automobile more'n six times in my whole life.
The open forehead, the curly locks, the pleasant smile, the hundred ingratiating ways which we carry with us out of childhood, they may all remain when the innocence has fled, but surely the laugh of the morning of life must go. I have never known the devil retain his grip on that. But Mary was still waiting. She was no longer beautiful; shame had possession of her face, she was an ugly woman.
He received her in the parlor with a marked restraint of manner for which she was quite unprepared. His ingratiating smile was gone, and an impenetrable solemnity of countenance appeared in its stead. "I have ventured to intrude on you, sir," said Mrs. Lecount, "to express the regret with which both my master and I have heard of Miss Bygrave's illness. Is there no improvement?"
I'll concede this, though: I think the smile was meant to be ingratiating. He pulled out a package wrapped in newspaper and began to eat before the train had run a mile. And, you know, more men get killed because of how they eat than by the stuff they devour. If you don't believe that, try living in camp for a week or two with a man who chews meat with his mouth open.
Clara gave a fatigued smile, as of one whom circumstances often forced to overdo it. They departed, Albert whistling to the night. Edwin observed again, in their final glances, the queer, new, ingratiating deference for himself. He bolted the door savagely. Darius was still standing at the entrance to the dining-room.
And then she was swept from him in the crowd and he was left thinking of all the things he might have said all those graceful, witty, ingratiating things which just make a bit of difference on these occasions. He had said nothing. Not a sound, exclusive of the first sharp yowl of pain, had proceeded from him. He had just goggled. A rotten exhibition! Perhaps he would never see this girl again.
Guloseton overwhelmed me with his thanks. I remounted the stairs with him took every opportunity of ingratiating myself received an invitation to dinner on the following day, and left Willis's transported at the goodness of my fortune. At the hour of eight on the ensuing evening, I had just made my entrance into Lord Guloseton's drawing-room.
"I did not mean to be," said Laking penitently. "She is a most ingratiating little creature, like a lazy kitten; but I think it is unwise for him to take her to Japan. All kinds of latent orientalisms may develop." The spring was at hand, the season of impulse, when we obey most readily the sudden stirrings of our hearts.
"Touching on your father once more," he said as they made their way below, "is he a very formidable sort of man?" "He can be a dear. But he's rather quick-tempered. You must be very ingratiating." "I will practise it in front of the glass every morning for the rest of the voyage," said Sam. He went down to the stateroom in a mixed mood of elation and apprehension.
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