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Then his face took on an expression, first of furrowed surprise and then of gratified vanity, an expression that brought the hot blush to Marcia's cheek, even while she struggled to restrain her contemptuous mirth. His manner changed at once to one of insinuating gallantry, which she hastened to check before he should commit himself.
When he chose, none could be more insinuating or turn the flank of a proper argument by more adroit suggestion. He used his power now. "You think she means well by you? You think that she, who has a thousand ladies of a kingdom at her call, of the best and most beautiful and even," his voice softened, "though you are more beautiful than all, that beauty would soften her towards you?
It is certainly fresh evidence of the identity of Eatanswill with Ipswich that Jingle should have appeared in both places as "Captain FitzMarshall." Once established in the Mayor's family, the insinuating Jingle devoted himself to the capture of the haughty and ill-natured Henrietta Nupkins, making his way into her good graces, and "cutting out" Sidney Porkenham, her old-established admirer.
Thus he has entitled one of his Treatises a “Soliloquy,” with the motto, “Nec te quæsiveris extra;” and he observes, “The chief interest of ambition, avarice, corruption, and every sly insinuating vice, is to prevent this interview and familiarity of discourse, which is consequent upon close retirement and inward recess. ’Tis the grand artifice of villainy and lewdness, as well as of superstition and bigotry, to put us upon terms of greater distance and formality with ourselves, and evade our proving method of soliloquy.… A passionate lover, whatever solitude he may affect, can never be truly by himself.… ’Tis the same reason which keeps the imaginary saint or mystic from being capable of this entertainment.
And it is only thirty miles." "Yes, but," faltered Cora, "suppose you should have a breakdown on that lonely road? There is neither station nor house from here to the falls." "What should break down?" asked Daisy. "This is papa's best machine, if you mean it is not trustworthy." "Oh, Daisy, dear, I had no idea of insinuating such a thing.
Still, Aurelius had, by various wanton jokes, incurred the emperor's wrath before now, and he was accustomed to disarm it by some insinuating confession, so he answered him with a roguish smile, while raising his eyes to him humbly: "Forgive me, great Caesar! Our poor strength, as you well know, is easily defeated in conflicts against overpowering beauty. Dainties are sweet, not only for children.
In his youth he had been handsome; but in his person there was now little trace of any attraction beyond that of a manner remarkably soft and insinuating: yet in his narrow though high forehead his sharp aquiline nose, grey eye, and slightly sarcastic curve of lip, something of his character betrayed itself.
I thought proper to bestow a few gentle lashes on her, for a letter which she wrote to me, and which I mentioned in my first from Paris, insinuating her own superiority, and giving me to understand how fortunate it would be for the world should I but prove as consummate a paragon as herself.
"Good dog good do-o-og," said the Slogger, in his softest and most insinuating tone. Dumps reduced his bark to a growl. The footman heard both bark and growl, but, attributing them to the influence of cats, turned on his other side and listened not for burglars, innocent man, but for the tube. It was silent! Evidently "tired nature" was, in Mrs McTougall's case, lulled by the "sweet restorer."
Being unable to distinguish between the insinuating tongue of personal interest and the unction of true charity, for we must be acutely awake to recognize false coin when it is offered by a friend, she felt herself, as it were, in the talons of some fierce and monstrous bird of prey who, after hovering over her for long, had pounced down on her; and in her terror she cried in a voice of alarm: "I thought it was a priest's duty to console us, and you are killing me!"
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