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They raised their glasses. "What have you called number three?" Kendricks asked. "'A Maker of Toys!" Julien replied. "Here's damnation to him!" Kendricks said, raising the glass to his lips. "Now get to work, Julien." Once more mademoiselle sat beneath a canopy of pink roses, surrounded by obsequious waiters, with the murmur of music in her ears, opposite the man she adored.
He was as insolent to others as he was obsequious to his master a flunky by nature and long education. Phipps appeared. "Well, Phipps, what are you here for?" inquired Mr. Belcher. "I was told you wanted me, sir," looking doubtfully with his cunning eyes into Mr. Belcher's face, as if questioning his mood. "How is your health? You look feeble. Overwhelmed by your tremendous duties?
He pished and swaggered, and made some remark to his men with the obsequious smile with which child or man asks for the support of his mates in his wrong-doing. The men did not smile back; they merely watched soberly to see what Watusk was going to do about it. The hail was repeated. "Ho, Watusk! Inspector Egerton orders you to come and talk to him!"
There is mamma rapping the knuckles of Pincot the lady's-maid, and little Miss scolding Martha, who waits up five pair of stairs in the nursery. Little Miss, Tommy, papa, mamma, you all expect from Martha, from Pincot, from Jenkins, from Jeames, obsequious civility and willing service. My dear, good people, you can't have truth too.
He wore a green imitation of a Norfolk jacket, he had a broad red smile, and as he flourished his hat in a bow, his hair was a bristly pompadour of gray-streaked red that was almost pink. He made oration: "Pardon my eccentric greeting, brother of the open road, but I wanted you to give ear to my obsequious query as to how's chances on gettin' a lift?
Mumu, who had never in her life been in such magnificent apartments, was very much frightened, and made a rush for the door, but, being driven back by the obsequious Stepan, she began trembling, and huddled close up against the wall. 'Mumu, Mumu, come to me, come to your mistress, said the lady; 'come, silly thing ... don't be afraid. 'Come, Mumu, come to the mistress, repeated the companions.
No minister of state touched forehead to floor as he spoke in hushed and trembling voice to him, no obsequious eunuchs knelt when coming into his presence; but on the contrary I have again and again seen him crowded against the wall by these cringing servants of Her Majesty. "One day while we were in the palace a pompous eunuch had stepped before the Emperor quite obliterating him.
And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out.
When, lastly, he observed the grandeur and magnificence of the numerous palaces, the wealth which they displayed, the luxury of the equipages, the multitude of slaves and of obsequious menials, the splendor of all these gorgeous spectacles, and heard the noise of those sumptuous festivities, entertainments, and rejoicings which incessantly resounded within its walls, he fancied himself transported to a city of kings into the midst of an assemblage of princes, who had brought with them their manners, customs, and attendants from every quarter of the world.
Look at him now pouring the thundering strains of his eloquence, upon crowded audiences in Great Britain, and see in this a triumphant vindication of his character. And have the slaveholder, and his obsequious apologist, gained anything by all their violence and falsehood? No! for the stone which struck Goliath of Gath, had already been thrown from the sling.
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