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That day she had turned against her crusts, even with sugar, and had felt no hunger until she got out into the air, when an imperious craving for food seized upon her suddenly, and she made for the Italian restaurant as if she had been driven. The moment she got inside the place, however, she recovered her self-possession.
The Roman eyed Andreas keenly, and the manly dignity, nay, the defiant self-possession of the freedman the very embodiment of all he had expected to find in a genuine Alexandrian so far won his confidence that he bade him speak without fear. He hoped to hear something sufficiently characteristic of the manners of the provincial capital to make an anecdote for Caesar's table.
The habit of command gives them a certain self-possession, the enjoyment of leisure a certain ease.
You have only to guard your self-possession. 'It is very foolish, she murmured. 'Ordinary women say so, and rest contented with the folly. You can do better things. There was a thrill of joy at finding him conversing with her as his 'own; it overcame her embarrassment and alarm, and wishes he would not choose such a time for speaking. 'How shall I? said she. 'Employ yourself.
Behind her, the Marquis de Gemosac, Albert de Chantonnay, his mother, and all the Royalists of the province, gathered in a semicircle, by accident or some tacit instinct, leaving only the girl standing out in front, beneath the chandelier. They bowed with that grave self-possession which falls like a cloak over the shoulders of such as are of ancient and historic lineage.
Pauline sprang up and turned round with flushed countenance and disordered hair; and again Otto had the ineffable delight of seeing human beings suddenly reduced to that condition which is variously described as being "stunned," "thunderstruck," "petrified," and "struck all of a heap" with surprise. Pauline was the first to recover self-possession.
The old gentleman, however, still waited, while the watchman took his place at the top of the steps as if determined to do his duty, come, what might. Norvin found Vittoria's eyes upon him, and saw that beneath her self-possession she was intensely embarrassed. Evidently there was nothing to do now but accept the situation and put an end to the painful scene at any sacrifice.
"As you have done me the honor to visit me in my cabin, Captain Flanger, it is reasonable to suppose you have some object in view, for I do not regard it as a merely friendly call." Though the young officer was prudent and discreet, he did not lose his self-possession, and he smiled as though he had been simply the host in the dining-room of the mansion at Bonnydale.
Overwhelmed with grief, Egmont exclaimed with natural and simple pathos "Alas! how miserable and frail is our nature, that, when we should think of God only, we are unable to shut out the images of wife and children." Recovering from his emotion, and having yet much time, he sat down and wrote with perfect self-possession two letters, one to Philip and one to Alva.
It is likewise from this period of Howe's career that two of the rare personal anecdotes have been transmitted, illustrative of his coolness and self-possession under all circumstances of danger, as well as when under the enemy's fire; one of them also touched with a bit of humor, not a usual characteristic of his self-contained reticence.
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