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"`I mean your sort did! exclaimed this personage. `Yes, your damned smug, settled, sensible sort made the French Revolution. Oh! I know some say it was no good, and you're just back where you were before. Why, blast it all, that's just where we all want to be back where we were before! That is revolution going right round! Every revolution, like a repentance, is a return.
I mean how the artist of that time, handicraftsman himself in stone or glass, found the best motives for his art, always ready for his hand and always beautiful, in the daily work of the artificers he saw around him as in those lovely windows of Chartres where the dyer dips in the vat and the potter sits at the wheel, and the weaver stands at the loom: real manufacturers these, workers with the hand, and entirely delightful to look at, not like the smug and vapid shopman of our time, who knows nothing of the web or vase he sells, except that he is charging you double its value and thinking you a fool for buying it.
I saw my position, and held my peace, while the two rascals told their tale, making sure by their volubility that the Camps did not tell theirs. Only as the two guards, one on either side, turned to lead me away, I said to Smug, 'We shall meet again, my fine decoy; and to the sham agent as I passed him, 'Better stick to your matches, my friend.
Smug came nearer, and waved his hand comprehensively toward the shining waters below them, and southward where a red-sailed Chinese junk lay at anchor opposite the Transportation Building. 'That is a lagoon, madam, he said, affably but low. 'Umph! It's no better-lookin' than our old mud scow!
This tragic farce was not enacted in a corner; a hundred journals printed every act as it was played; the victim never received that one hearty flogging which might have saved him, and the curtain was at last rung down on a smug, grinning group of bookmakers, a deservedly ruined spendthrift, and a mob of indifferent lookers-on.
By some magic of duty, he had contrived to give his usually hebetudinous features an expression of enthusiasm. "Say, Chief," the detective said rapidly, "they've squealed!" Burke regarded his aide with an air intolerably triumphant. His voice came smug: "Squealed, eh?" His glance ran over Garson for a second, then made its inquisition of Mary and of Dick Gilder.
I thought him delightful! He is coming to play to me to-morrow." "Ah, I thought so!" said Falloden wrathfully. "He is an impossible person. He wears a frilled shirt, scents himself, and recites his own poems when he hasn't been asked. And he curries favour abominably with the dons. He is a smug of the first water. There is a movement going on in college to suppress him.
Of one thing Brent was determined whatever Alderman Crood, as Deputy-Mayor, or whatever the Aldermen and Councillors of Hathelsborough desired, he, as the murdered man's next-of-kin, was not going to have any public funeral or demonstration; it roused his anger to white heat to think of even the bare possibility of Wallingford's murderer following him in smug hypocrisy to his grave.
You must have faith. You must just believe what you're told not think at all. Thinking is wickedness unless you think what you hear preached." Feather was even a trifle delicately smug as she rattled off her orthodoxy but she laughed after she had done with it. "But it MUST have been funny a Turk or a Hindoo in a turban and a thing like a tea gown and Mrs.
In such event it can afford to pass its spare time in one continuous round of universal peace celebrations, and of smug self-satisfaction in having earned the derision of all the virile peoples of mankind. Those who advocate such a policy do not occupy a lofty position. But at least their position is understandable.
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