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The astonishment, agitation, and above all, the awkward confusion of this usually self-possessed and ready man, was so unlike him, and withal so painful, that Grace hurried to put an end to it, and for an instant forgot her own surprise at seeing him. She smiled assuringly, and extended her hand. "Grace Miss Nevil I beg your pardon I didn't imagine" he began with a forced laugh.
The only calm and self-possessed individual in the whole party was the bear! He surveyed the situation coolly for a few seconds, and then started at an awkward gallop for the woods.
She was quite self-possessed when he returned with his spectacles, a little black book, his wife and the gardener for witnesses, and a "here-is-the-job-I-love" expression on his amiable features.
They were keen business men, but they knew that their usual methods would not serve them with this shabbily-dressed, self-possessed botanist. "Well," he said at length, "your suggestion rather appeals to me, but there's the difficulty that another matter claims my attention.
"I have already told you that I do not possess that trait; so prepare for the worst." She was dressed in some light summer fabric, and her rounded arms and neck were partially bare. She looked so white and cool, so self-possessed, and, with all her smiles, so devoid of warm human feeling, that Dennis felt a sudden chill at heart. The ancient fable of the sirens occurred to him.
Margie scrutinized her curiously, wondering the while at her own heartless apathy. Something had occurred to stir the composure of this usually cool, and self-possessed woman fearfully. But what it was Margie could not guess. Mr. Trevlyn burst into the room, pale and exhausted. "It is no use!" he said, throwing himself into a chair, "no use to try to disguise the truth!
Pamela, sitting apart, and deeply shaded by a great beech with drooping branches that rose behind the group, was sharply unhappy, and filled with a burning jealousy of Elizabeth, who queened it there in the middle of them so self-possessed, agreeable, and competent. How well Arthur had been getting on with her! What a tiresome, tactless idiot she, Pamela, must seem in comparison!
"Perhaps," I said to myself, "it will be the lieutenant;" but ten minutes after, as the elephant shambled up, I altered my mind, for Captain Dyer was ambling along beside the great beast, and his was the hand that helped the lady down a tall, handsome, self-possessed girl, who seemed quite to take the lead, and kiss and soothe the sister, when she ran out of the tent to throw her arms round the new-comer's neck.
To Fitzhugh Beverley, of Beverley Hall, the picture conveyed immediately a sweet and pervading influence. Alice looked superbly tall, stately and self-possessed in her transforming costume, a woman of full stature, her countenance gravely demure yet reserving near the surface the playful dimples and mischievous smiles so characteristic of her more usual manner.
And yet, as is sometimes the case, a look of languor suited her; and he thought she had grown decidedly better-looking in the last year. At Redsands Miss Brabazon had been a little too buxom, a little too self-possessed, also, for his taste. And yet and yet how wonderfully good she had been to poor Mrs. Varick!
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