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"Contemptible human nature!" exclaimed the third disputant, soliloquizing with a supercilious expression of hateful disdain. "Poor human nature!" murmured Castleton, looking upward with a sigh; and though we have not given to that gentleman other words than these, we think they are almost sufficient to let our readers into his character.
"I suppose they are reserving me for some grand occasion," said the Rocket; "no doubt that is what it means," and he looked more supercilious than ever. The next day the workmen came to put everything tidy.
The more I thought of this the more convinced I was that that was, indeed, his proposed plan of action oh, how I loathed the blackleg! and mine henceforth would be to dog his every footstep and never let him out of my sight until I forced him to disgorge his ill-gotten booty. At ten o'clock M. Jean Duval arrived, as was his wont, supercilious and brusque as usual.
There he dined, assuming the while a haughty and supercilious air, and incessantly arranging his well-curled locks. There, too, he drank a bottle of champagne; a liquid he had hitherto known only by reputation. His head full of wine, he went out into the street, gay, bold, ready for any thing able to face the devil, as the Russians say.
That's the whole story of her, madam. Whatever were Manston's real feelings towards the lady who had received his explanation in these supercilious tones, they remained locked within him as within a casket of steel. 'Did your friends know of your marriage, Mr. Manston? she continued. 'Nobody at all; we kept it a secret for various reasons.
It happened, however, that Tsamanni was malicious, and that the hatred of Fenzileh which so long he had consumed in silence and dissembled under fawning smiles and profound salaams included also her servants. There was none in all the world of whom he entertained a greater contempt than her sleek and greasy eunuch Ayoub-el-Samin of the majestic, rolling gait and fat, supercilious lips.
"Between ourselves," pursued the other, "didn't you feel just a little surprised?" "Surprised?" "At his choice. Oh, don't misunderstand me. I quite appreciate Miss Bride's cleverness and seriousness. But one couldn't help thinking that a man of Mr. Lashmar's promise . Perhaps you don't see it in that way?" "I really think they are rather well suited," said May, again calmly supercilious.
Whatever they might think of the mother, the chivalry of her son was indisputable, and no one was disposed to wound his filial piety by so much as a supercilious glance. The silence that ensued was broken by La Fontaine. "Did you know," said he, "that Madame de Coulanges had been summoned to trial yesterday?" "Yes," replied the duchess, "but I have not heard the result.
He fought with it for a moment or two, for anger is the Lord's, and strict Quaker discipline forbade such unseemly wrangling. But Adam was a man of violent temperament which his strict religious training had not altogether succeeded in holding in check: the sneers of the foreign prince, his calm, supercilious attitude, broke the curb which religion had set upon his passion.
"Fifteen thousand a year, by gad!" exclaimed the taller of the two, giving a supercilious sniff to the brandy he had just poured out. "Yes, ha! ha! and a damnably pretty filly into the bargain!" "You always were so infernally lucky!" retorted the first. "Call it rather the reward of virtue," answered his companion with a laugh that showed his big, white teeth.
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