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A fat, smug undertaker was commissioned to arrange all the details. Some few neighborhood friends called those who had remained most faithful and on the second morning following his death the services were held. Lester accompanied Jennie and Vesta and Bass to the little red brick Lutheran church, and sat stolidly through the rather dry services.
A house which Lord Stowell acquired by his marriage with an heiress, Anna Maria Bagnall. Byron, in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, attributes the authorship of Peter Plymley to "Smug Sydney." See also his allusion to "Peter Pith" in Don Juan, canto xvi.
His face appeared or I imagined it, even more smug than before in its expression, and there was something suggestive of injured dignity as well. "Did you call, sir?" he inquired with an irritating meekness. "I did, indeed," I returned rather sharply. "I've been looking everywhere for a bell, but couldn't find one.
'Pears to me they's people enough alive and frisky, 'thout stickin' all them stone men around so dretful lib'ral; though they look well 'nough, fur's I know. She cast her eyes all about her, and then beckoned to Smug, standing uneasily in the rear: 'Say, can't you show me one single laggoon?
A shout of laughter followed this sally, and as she turned away I fancied that I saw a quick look exchanged between the man of the pipe and our smug guide.
Marco's joy was exuberant but only for a moment; then he grew thoughtful, then sad; and when he heard me tell Dowley I should have Dickon, the boss mason, and Smug, the boss wheelwright, out there, too, the coal-dust on his face turned to chalk, and he lost his grip. But I knew what was the matter with him; it was the expense.
Awakener of England indeed! He could not even awaken Hickney Heath. As he dashed through the streets in his triumphal car, he hated Hickney Heath, hated the wild "hoorays" of waggon-loads of his supporters on their way to the polls, hated the smug smiles of his committee-men at polling stations. He forgot that he did not hate England.
Antony, Brutus, Cato, Seneca these were not of the kind of men to do deeds of cowardice and folly. The smug, self-righteous modern way of looking upon the act as that of a craven or a lunatic is the creation of priests, Philistines and women.
Your colonial hero will face the desperate chance of death; but not the smug arrogance of a beliveried flunkey. "Wait here," says M. Radisson to me, forgetful of Hortense now that his own end was won. And I struck through the copse-wood, telling myself that chance makes grim sport.
But nobody guessed because they were all quite sure what Alligator had done. They went out in a body to look for him. He lay beside the barn with his eyes shut and a smug smile on his face. Muffled grunts and squeals sounded from his inside. "What good does it do to eat things when you have to give them up in the morning?" Hortense asked.
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