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"Holy father," answered Mobarec with an obliging air, and at the same time putting into his hand the gold and the silk, "I am your neighbour and your servant: I come from prince Zeyn, who lives in this ward: he has heard of your worth, and has ordered me to come and tell you, that he desires to be acquainted with you, and in the mean time desires you to accept of this small present."
Indeed this fat, amiable man, who could even be obliging when his interests were not in question, was a perfect newspaper, brimful of tittle-tattle, disdaining no item of gossip whatever, even if it came from the kitchens.
It was Monsieur Lheureux, the shopkeeper, who had undertaken the order; this provided him with an excuse for visiting Emma. He chatted with her about the new goods from Paris, about a thousand feminine trifles, made himself very obliging, and never asked for his money. Emma yielded to this lazy mode of satisfying all her caprices.
It has always used me well. When I have been flush, and gay, and disposed for society, it has caressed me; and when I have been pinched, and reduced, and wished to be alone, why, it has left me alone, and what more could a man desire? Take my word for it, this world is a more obliging world than people generally represent it.
There was not the slightest sign of discomposure discernible in the look or tone of the speaker; his air was more than obliging he seemed to be responding to a compliment. "I began walk as a priest a disciple of Siddhartha, whom my Lord, of his great intelligence, will remember as born in Central India.
And you know, Mary, though a kind, good sort of a body, and very industrious and obliging, eat almost as much as all the rest of us together." "Well, Constance, put as good a face upon the matter as you can, but I feel that stern necessity has brought you to it." "You must not talk so much about 'stern necessity, Theodore.
He dearly loves to see a set-to, self the same. What prettier? And if you would be so obliging some day as to favour us with a display, we'd head a cap conformably, whether you'd the best of it, according to your expectations, or t' other way: For there never was shame in a jolly good licking as the song says: that is, if you take it and make it appear jolly good.
It stood close to the curb and the engine was throbbing, proof in itself that some one had but recently deserted his post as guardian. "The obliging man-hunters," suggested Robin in reply to a low-voiced question. "Or your guardian angel, the great Gourou!" she said, frowning slightly. "By the way, Mr. Schmidt. do you expect to be under surveillance during your stay at Interlaken?"
The price of each station is regulated by government; and the postmasters and drivers are very civil and obliging; but the celerity with which every thing is procured at an English inn, is not to be expected here, as the Germans are habitually slow in all their movements. A German dinner is still more tedious than a French one, and it is perhaps yet more foreign to our taste.
Shall I carry you to the boat, and roll your feet in the bear-skin?" "I feel as if a hundred years had passed since we were last in the canoe," said Cecil, evading this obliging proposal. "But how the lake has calmed itself down; it seems sleeping, and the shore and the islands cast long shadows on it." "'Tis one of those ambrosial eves A day of storm so often leaves,"
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