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Passing down the aisle came a very fair-haired banker's son, also of Chicago, who had long eyed this supercilious beauty. Even now he did not hesitate to glance at her, and she was conscious of it. With a specially conjured show of indifference, she turned her pretty face wholly away. It was not wifely modesty at all. By so much was her pride satisfied.
"And if I did the same," he questioned in a drawl that was unmistakably supercilious, "should I be a good man?" "I don't know what your capabilities are," she said. "I have vast capabilities for evil," he told her, with a cynical twist of his thin-lipped mouth. She met his look again. "I am sorry," she said. "Are you really? But why? Doesn't the devil attract you? Honestly now!"
"Say, Lucas" there was more than insistence in his tone this time; it held compulsion "you aren't faint-hearted?" The blue eyes began to smile. "I think not, Boney. But I've got to hang on for the present till you and the boy are married. P'r'aps then I'll take the risk." Nap looked supercilious. "And if it is not my intention to marry?" "You must marry, my dear fellow.
Had I intended to remain here some time, or had my mind been more alive to general inquiries, I should have endeavoured to have been introduced to some characters not so entirely immersed in commercial affairs, though in this whirlpool of gain it is not very easy to find any but the wretched or supercilious emigrants, who are not engaged in pursuits which, in my eyes, appear as dishonourable as gambling.
Walter looked up, thinking that he was addressed, but found that the summons was meant for a boy, rather good-looking but very slender, whose self-important attitude and supercilious look betrayed no slight amount of vanity, and who, to the apparent astonishment of the rest, was surveying the room and its appurtenances with a look of great affectation and disdain.
But, as the tribe that bestow on themselves this titillating epithet have a light and versatile character, as they abound in praises that are void of discrimination, and promises that are unmeaning, and affect at one moment the most winning urbanity, and at the next the most supercilious arrogance, though they gave me much pleasure, they likewise gave me exquisite pain.
Although he received some returns from the sale of his poems, he felt himself more independent by relying upon the income derived from his own business. His increasing reputation never engendered in him, as is too often the case with self-taught geniuses who suddenly rise into fame, a supercilious contempt for the ordinary transactions of life.
Thus exonerated, the Peril passed by the line of chained dogs, bumping into them in a perfectly unnecessary manner, and emitting supercilious growls that in themselves would have been sufficient grounds for instant death if Pete Bernard's huskies could have acted upon their unanimous opinion. "It's a terrible thing," sighed the Woman, "to have a murderer in our midst and not know who it is.
I don't affect to despise birth and lineage, my dear. If I could not trace my ancestry back to the first tadpole who loafed his life away in the tropical forests of old, I should be miserable." He spoke jestingly, but he drew himself up as he spoke, his lip was supercilious, and there was an intolerant light in his eye.
He was on visiting terms with the authorities the general in command, the prefect, the receiver-general, and the bishop but in every house he was frigid, polite, and slightly supercilious, like a man out of his proper place awaiting the favors of power.
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