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It was as if he had suddenly caught sight of someone cutting the covenant 'for quiet possession' out of his legal documents; or of a monster lurking and stalking out in the future, casting its shadow before. Their want of stolidity, their want of reverence! It was like discovering that nine-tenths of the people of England were foreigners. And if that were so then, anything might happen!
Juan of Aragon was usually the hero to extricate these poor estrays from the false step they had taken, the other peons regarding the scene with their tranquil stolidity. A glass of brandy to the unfortunate would always compose his nerves again, and make him hope for a few more accidents of a like nature and bringing a like consolation.
At my suggestion a proposal was made to the Lieutenant-Governor to-day to continue to govern the city under us; but the stolidity of the Chinese is so great that there is no saying what he may do. We have given him till to-morrow to determine whether he will accept.
The next morning, or rather the earlier part of it, he devoted, when he was not thinking about Angela, to arranging his goods and chattels in his small domain, to examining the lovely scenery of Dartmouth harbour the sight of which is enough to make any outward-bound individual bitterly regret his determination to quit his native land and to inspecting the outward man of his fellow-passengers with that icy stolidity which characterizes the true-born Briton.
I warn you that I am quite incapable of any of the proper sentiments of life." "Your gratitude would be of no value to me whatever," he assured her. She was still not wholly satisfied. His complete stolidity frustrated every effort she made to penetrate beneath the surface.
But not precisely so. For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.
And here's another: Go away before you forget yourself again." The natural stolidity of Bob Pilings face was only just proof against this speech. He said thickly: "If you go there again and use my name, I'll Well, it's lucky for you you're not my age. Anyway I'll relieve you of my acquaintanceship in future. Good-evening!" and he went to the door. Mr. Ventnor had risen.
With leisure for observation, however, he noted that she had made good her promise of rare physical charm, and that her comeliness had ripened into real beauty beauty built on an overwhelming scale, to be sure, and hence doubly striking moreover, he saw that all traces of her stolidity had vanished.
Peigan Charley's bovine stare changed swiftly as the white chief whom he regarded above all men gave his decision. Its stolidity had given way to incredulity, and Bill found in it a source of amusement. Suddenly Charley thrust up one hand. The long, tawny fingers were parted, and he counted off each one. "One, two, tree, four," he enumerated, bending each finger in turn.
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