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The fact was that, when they had trusted us, they were compelled to continue obsequious, for Heriot had instilled the sentiment in the school, that gentlemen never failed to wipe out debts in the long run, so it was their interest to make us feel they knew us to be gentlemen, who were at some time or other sure to pay, and thus also they operated on our consciences.
Their faces were shrouded with heavy beards, and there was an indescribable something about them that stamped them as personages of exalted rank. "They paused a short distance from me, and one of them said, addressing Ali Pasha: "'What is the name of yonder slave? "'Zuleika, answered the obsequious and unscrupulous slave-dealer.
Peter Stangate, ran as follows "Long beards heartlesse, Painted hoods witlesse, Gray coats gracelesse, Make England thriftlesse." When the Emperor Charles V. ascended the throne of Spain, he had no beard. It was not to be expected that the obsequious parasites who always surround a monarch, could presume to look more virile than their master.
He came forth in his rich dressing-gown, went round the antechamber, dispensed smiles and promises among the obsequious crowd, addressed himself with peculiar animation to every handsome woman who appeared in the circle, and complimented her in the florid style of Gascony on the bloom of her cheeks and the lustre of her eyes.
No doubt is permitted to remain of the direction which has been taken by the current of the popular feeling, to be recovered to its ancient obsequious course when some great river which has farced a new channel shall resume that which it has abandoned.
"Ah! what a crank she is!" muttered Massot with an air of amusement. Then, as Chaigneux darted towards magistrate Amadieu to ask him in the most obsequious way if he had received his ticket, the journalist said to Duthil in a whisper: "By the way, my dear friend, is it true that Duvillard is going to launch his famous scheme for a Trans-Saharan railway?
Though neither so much beloved nor esteemed as the king, he was more dreaded; and thence an attendance more exact, as well as a submission more obsequious, was paid to him. The saying of Waller was remarked, that Charles, in spite to the parliament, who had determined that the duke should not succeed him, was resolved that he should reign even in his lifetime.
John rushed to the door to meet the arriving guest and greeted him aloud from afar in the most obliging, not to say obsequious, terms, bidding him come in without ceremony and not make a stranger of himself.
The old gentleman staggered back in sheer amazement. "Is it possible?" he exclaimed. "Surely yet, no; it can't be." "Can't it though?" And to put all doubt at rest, they each seized hold of a hand and nearly dragged him off his frail supports. "Mrs. Harkaway?" "Who's there?" "Me; your obsequious humble to command." "Good gracious!" And then upon the other side of the door Mrs.
Perhaps in some pause in their merriment, a strange cry of anguish, borne by the night wind from the rude shelter without, may have stopped their revelry for a moment and one may have asked of another: "What is that?" The servant of the house who stood obsequious to promote their pleasure may have answered apologetically: "It is the cry of a woman of the people in travail in the inn yard."
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