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My coffee was brought I paid for it and tossed the waiter an unusually large gratuity he naturally found it incumbent upon him to polish my table with extra zeal, and to secure all the newspapers, pictorial or otherwise, that were lying about, for the purpose of obsequiously depositing them in a heap at my right hand.
He was very polite, almost obsequiously so, and his explanations concerning the repairs which he had found it necessary to make and the painting which he had had done were lengthy if not convincing. As they left him, smiling and bowing in the doorway of his store, Thankful shook her head. When they were out of earshot she said: "Hum!
Philip bowed and retreated to the door, followed obsequiously by his uncle. It chanced that both Lord Lilburne and Mr. Blackwell were of the same mind as to the course advisable for Mr. Beaufort now to pursue.
I felt drowsy too, so I put my arm about the slumbering Seraph and soon fell fast asleep. It seemed to me but a moment when Angel roused me. I know I had barely settled down to an enjoyable dream in which I was the only customer in an ice-cream parlour, where there were seven waitresses, each one obsequiously proffering a different flavour.
It obsequiously accepted the project in principle, and that on the proposition of Marcus Cicero, who was expected to give, and gave, in this case the first proof of the pliableness learned by him in exile. But in the settlement of the details very material portions were abated from the original plan, which the tribune of the people Gaius Messius submitted.
A brief reply from my companion, not couched in the most polite or amiable terms, made the bolts rattle and the door open with surprising rapidity, and we saw before us an old man with long dishevelled hair, who, as far as appearance went, might have been one of the lunatics, bowing obsequiously and muttering apologies.
"Yes," said Mr Simkins, obsequiously standing up, I am sure the gentleman will be very welcome to take my place, for I did not mean for to sit down, only just to look agreeable." "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au desespoir if I derange any body."
"Yes, massa," said the black, pulling at his cap, and bowing obsequiously. He disappeared, and presently "old Buckley" came out, looking worthy to be the dog's master. "Perhaps," thought Frank, "if I treat him in the same way, he won't bite, either;" and he walked straight up to him. The biped did not bark or growl, as the quadruped had done, but he looked wickedly at the intruder.
Vainly had the heroic family of the Barcides, vainly had the successors of Alexander the Great and of the Achaemenids, endeavoured to rouse the Italian nation to contend with the too powerful capital; it had obsequiously appeared in the fields of battle on the Guadalquivir and on the Mejerdah, at the pass of Tempe and at Mount Sipylus, and with the best blood of its youth had helped its masters to achieve the subjugation of three continents.
The Nubian skilfully wheeled the animals about and in a few minutes Monte-Cristo had reached his destination. At the door of the poste a gardien received him and, at the mention of his name, obsequiously conducted him to the officer in charge.
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