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His sharp, shameless black eyes watched the girl's face absently; his gross lips curled upwards in a sardonic and self-satisfied smile. He was evidently setting a trap for her of some kind. Without a word of warning while Isabel was in the middle of a sentence the trap opened, with the opening of Old Sharon's lips. "I say," he burst out. "How came you to seal her Ladyship's letter eh?"
His hands were unencumbered by stick or umbrella; he carried himself smartly, balancing himself so accurately that he seemed to have no weight; and his expression was self-satisfied and good-humored. But ! Lydia felt that there was a "but" somewhere that he must be something more than a handsome, powerful, and light-hearted young man.
The self-centered and self-satisfied citizens of San Pasqual had condemned the vegetable venture from the start.
As for Freule Menela, she was as composed as ever, and had a self-satisfied air, as though, having slept on it, she was more pleased than ever with the course she had adopted. Phyllis knew nothing yet, except what she had gleaned from me last night, I was sure of that; but I was not so sure about Alb, who wore a clouded brow.
"Well," she replied, averting her face to hide the color that would rise at his rather abrupt and pointed address, "I'd rather be a Chinese puzzle to you than what I was." "And I no doubt have appeared to you like a Chinese Mandarin, Grand Turk, Great Mogul, not name self-satisfied Pharisees, and all of that ilk." "I can't say that you have, and yet I've keenly felt your superiority.
There was quite enough to daunt him in the prospect of a life spent among the narrow-minded. Sinners who feel waves of repentance may be better house-mates than those who have worldly credit enough to make them self-satisfied. Fortunately all houses of religion were not alike, any more than colleges are alike to-day.
Dave, whose chest had been heaving, and whose lungs had been taking in great gulps of air, suddenly pushed his second gently away. "Mr. Treadwell, sir, will you come over here a moment?" he called. "And also the officials of the fight?" Treadwell, with a self-satisfied leer on his face, stepped away from his seconds coming jauntily over. Midshipman Edgerton and Wheeler followed in some wonder.
The schools and colleges were pedantic, complacent, smug and self-satisfied; by giving in a few points they had absorbed the radicals, and the political protesters had been bought off with snug places in the excise. Pretended knowledge passed for wisdom, dignity paraded as worth, affectation and hypocrisy patronized virtue.
"He'd have died but for you," said the boy. "And you, Tolly," added Betty. "Well, yes, I did have a finger in the pie," returned the boy, with a self-satisfied air; "but I say, Betty," he added, becoming suddenly serious, "what d'ye think o' what that rascally chief said about takin' you to his wigwam? You know that means he intends to make you his wife."
The clock struck four; M. Verduret, who was punctuality itself, appeared. He was more red-faced and self-satisfied, if possible, than the day before. As soon as the servant had left the room to obey his orders, he said to Prosper: "Well, are our commissions executed?" "Yes, monsieur." "Have you seen the costumer?"
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