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There was something curiously exotic about him, as there is in persons of mixed races; an olive pallor of skin, an oiliness of black hair, and a jetty brightness of eye under heavy lids. This time it was Stephen who asked for Miss Ray; but he was given the same answer. She had gone out. "You are sure?" "Mais, oui, monsieur." "Has she been gone long?"
The hair of many women looks as though it were trying hard oh, so hard! to get away from them; but yours clings and what is the word? tendrils round your head as if it loved you." "Ordinary curly hair," she answered in French. "But no black hair is usually dry and like something burnt, or of an oiliness to disgust. Is it not so, Félicité is her hair not adorable?"
Through those various vessels runs the blood, a liquor soft and oily, and by this oiliness proper to retain the most subtle spirits, just as the most subtle and spirituous essences are preserved in gummy bodies.
Extremes in language were the most common, for he had all the oiliness and glibness of an Emeraldic tongue, and in conversation, when a little excited, the words tumbled out with headlong velocity or flowed like molten brass into the mould of the founder, and, to carry the simile farther, some would sputter over.
Well Laroque?" There was silence for a minute. Sonnino, cringing, the suavity, the oiliness of manner gone, a man afraid, kept his eyes on the table, and kept passing his hands one over the other. Laroque was the gambler a twisted smile was forced to his lips. "You win," he said hoarsely.
There's nothing to tempt thieves, is there? Just lock the door and put the key in my pocket!" The woman looked very surly, but flummoxed. Her husband, with his suave oiliness, came to her rescue. "My wife is always nervous, perhaps foolishly nervous, about fire, Mr. Beaumaroy. Well, with an old house like this, there is always the risk." "Upon my soul, I hadn't thought of it!
And he flung himself into the chair, drawing his fur-lined coat about him. "Let me hear from you!" he snapped. Minee, the unfrocked bishop, preserving still a certain episcopal portliness of figure, a certain episcopal oiliness of speech, respectfully implored the representative to be more precise. The invitation flung him into a passion. His irascibility, indeed, deserved to become a byword.
He had originally been known in Fleet Street by the irreverent sobriquet of "greasy Chetwynd," owing to his largeness, oiliness and general air of blandly-meaningless benevolence. He had a wife and two daughters, and one of his objects in wintering at Cairo was to get his cherished children married.
If only his voice had not that disagreeable oiliness! After all, that was what she liked least. He spoke French with wonderful fluency, but he abstained from making the tiresome compliments which so many Frenchmen reel off even at first acquaintance.
The first evidence of God's touch in the re-making of man on that memorable Pentecost day was upon his tongue. The effect upon his tongue of the break with God has been radical and strange. Dumbness, and slowness or thickness of speech alternate with an unnatural sharpness. Sometimes the spittle has a peculiar oiliness that results in a certain slipperiness of statement.
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