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The street was full of coaches. Pompous doormen in immense coats, shiny brass belts and buttons, waited in front of expensive salesrooms. Coachmen in tan boots, white tights, and blue jackets waited obsequiously for the mistresses of carriages who were shopping inside. The whole street bore the flavor of riches and show, and Carrie felt that she was not of it.
He came forward with an air of the most profound respect for the company in general, and obsequiously advancing to Cecilia, made an earnest enquiry into her health after her journey, and hoped she had heard good news from her friends in the country.
Hopper always followed him obsequiously into the ground-glass office, called in the book-keeper, and showed him the books and the increased earnings. The Colonel thought of Mr. Hood and his slovenly management, and sighed, in spite of his doubled income. Mr. Hopper had added to the Company's list of customers whole districts in the growing Southwest, and yet the honest Colonel did not like him.
The sergeant went to Josel, who received him enthusiastically. He invited him into the parlour and assured him that all his licences were in order. 'There is no signboard at the gate. 'I'll put one up at once of whatever kind you like, said the innkeeper obsequiously, and ordered a bottle of porter. The sergeant now opened the question of the night-attack. 'What night-attack? jeered Josel.
Long association with fussy directors has taught them that the only policy to pursue on opening nights is to withdraw into the silence, wrap themselves up in it, and not emerge until the enemy has grown tired and gone off to worry somebody else. "It don't look right!" said Mr Goble, cocking his head on one side. "I see what you mean, Mr Goble," assented the stage-director obsequiously.
It was a beautiful sight, the great terrace at Annery that afternoon; with the smart dames in their gaudy dresses parading up and down in twos and threes before the stately house; or looking down upon the park, with the old oaks, and the deer, and the broad land-locked river spread out like a lake beneath, all bright in the glare of the midsummer sun; or listening obsequiously to the two great ladies who did the honors, Mrs.
Cheered, Wallace demanded the bill-of-fare, "the table-d'hote, Handsome!" said he to the appreciative waiter. The man lowered his head and murmured obsequiously. The table-d'hote dinner was served only on the balcony, sir. This caused a halt in the rising gaiety. The group looked a little blank.
English travellers are sometimes found grumbling because the señor who keeps a wayside posada, or even a more pretentious inn in one of the towns, does not stand, hat in hand, bowing obsequiously to the wayfarer who deigns to use the accommodation provided. This is one of the things in which Spain, to her honour, is unchanged.
No doubt he feared that threats of the guillotine, and various other persuasive methods of that type, might addle the old man's brains, and that he would be more likely to be useful through greed of gain, than through terror of death. The eyes of the Jew shot a quick, keen glance at the gold in his interlocutor's hand. "At least five, I should say, your Excellency," he replied obsequiously.
At its door stood king Ithobal looking very huge and sullen in the sunlight. Metem dismounted and prostrated himself obsequiously. "May the King live for ever," he said, "the great King, the King to whom all the other kings of the earth are as the little gods to Baal, or the faint stars to the sun."
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