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He gathered up his letters, gave them to an usher to mail, and sauntering off with a counterfeit sprightliness that was more counterfeit as he grew fatter and fatter with the years, walked through to the central corridor, a prolongation of the lobby in front of the Salón de Conferencias.
He had lost something of the sprightliness of his bearing. His attitude, indeed, was almost dejected. He was like a man who sees into the future and finds there strange and gruesome things. "I do more than believe that," he declared. "I know it. It has fallen to my lot to make a very definite discovery concerning them. Listen, my friend.
"Oh, no! I'm all right, thank you," she said, with forced sprightliness. His shrewd, hard gaze went over her and knew better. "You lie down under those live-oaks and I'll get some grub ready." "I'll cook lunch while you lie down. You must be tired walking so far through the sun," said Miss Kinney. "Have I got to pick you up again and carry you there?" "No, you haven't.
We see one crafty and subtle he has the blood of the fox; another cruel, malicious, blood-thirsty he is descended from the wolf. The red skin is courageous the horse was his father; the white man is a coward his mother was a sheep. One is full of sprightliness and agility he is of the blood of the mountain-cat; another is clumsy the musk-ox was his father.
Then she exclaimed, with the obstinacy of a spoiled child: "Very well! I will return hopping on one foot; I could hop very well when I was young, I should be able to do so now." To give more weight to this observation, she took two little jumps with a grace and sprightliness worthy of Mademoiselle Taglioni. Octave arose.
"You mean," said Ayre, "there may be an affectation of freshness and enthusiasm gush, in fact as bad, or worse, than cynicism, and really springing from the same root?" Kate had not arrived at any such definite meaning, but she nodded her head. "An assumed sprightliness," continued Ayre cheerfully, "perhaps coquettishness?"
However, it was at supper she finally conquered. Here the lights, her beauty set off with art, her deepening eyes, her satin skin, her happy excitement, her wit and tenderness, and joyous sprightliness, enveloped Griffith in an atmosphere of delight, and drove everything out of his head but herself; and with this, if the truth must be told, the sparkling wines co-operated.
Still, however, there was a whim and sprightliness even about their mischief, which made it seem rather an exercise of ingenuity than an indulgence of ill nature; and if they had not carried on this intellectual warfare, neither would have liked the other half so well.
You felt it in his laugh, which was seldom hearty; it made his sprightliness in social hours more self-conscious than it might have been. Beatrice had always felt towards him a very real humility, even when the goading of her unrequited love drove her into a show of scornful opposition.
Yes, an old danseuse is a melancholy object; more so, because less cared for, than the broken-down racer, or worn-out hunter. Went to Tivoli last night, and was amused by the scene of gaiety it presented. How unlike, and how superior to, our Vauxhall! People of all stations, of all ages, and of both sexes, threading the mazy dance with a sprightliness that evinced the pleasure it gave them.
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