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"The King promises to act on this matter in a few days, to-morrow, probably. Chamillard is against us; he seems all powerful now; the King loves him for his truculence. But these will help, yes, these will help." And again he ran through the various papers with business-like swiftness. His fashionable air and the perfumed handkerchief were alike laid aside.
It was at this stage of the comedy of errors that Moody, Begbie, and Mayne came on the scene. At first M'Gowan showed truculence and assailed Moody; but when he saw the force of engineers and bluejackets and saw the big gun hoisted ashore, he apologized, paid his fine for the assault, and invited the officers to a champagne dinner on Hill's Bar.
They found places on a lounge and were served with cocktails. The girl sipped hers disapprovingly. "Rum stuff, this," she declared. "I guess I'll have to get my shaker out." "You are staying here, then?" he enquired. "Why not?" she replied, with a faint note of truculence in her tone. "You know I'm not short of money, and I guessed it was where I should find you." He raised his eyebrows.
He was embarrassed, a rare condition with him, which, when it did afflict him, resulted in an impression of intimidating truculence. Cicely seemed to shrink a little, and he resolved to leave instantly. "Oh no!" she said shyly. "I only wanted to say that if I could do anything for you well, you've only to let me know." "It's awfully kind of you," she murmured.
"I'll see about some more soft drinks," he said. "Come help me fish up the bottles." Sally smiled at the other two. She was already inspecting the lunch basket. "We still have some sandwiches," she said hospitably, "and some cake." Haney came forward awkwardly. Mike advanced toward her with something of truculence. Joe knew what was in his mind.
The walls bristled with armed men, the sun glistening on their polished breastplates like the shimmer of summer lightning. The Archbishop turned toward the gate again, as though the sight he beheld brought small comfort to him. "What is your desire?" he said with less of truculence in his tone than there had been at the beginning.
We are dealing with a Chinaman, with the incarnate essence of Eastern subtlety, with the most stupendous genius that the modern Orient has produced." "I don't believe in disguises," said Weymouth, with a certain truculence. "It's mostly played out, that game, and generally leads to failure. Still, if you're determined, sir, there's an end of it. Foster will make your face up.
At another time he rewarded the keeper of a coffee-house, who supported him for six months, by stealing her watch; and, when she grumbled at his insolence, he reflected, with a chuckle, that she could more easily bear the loss of her watch than the loss of her lover. Even in his gaiety there was an unpleasant spice of greed and truculence.
Such liftings of hands on the part of other men he regarded as a falling back to the truculence of savage life. Men should manage and coerce each other either with the tongue, or with money, or with the law according to his theory of life.
The mingled truculence and tortuousness of the diplomacy by which Bismarck sapped up to the short but decisive war, the issue of which gave to Prussia the virtual headship of Germany and contributed so greatly toward the unification of the Fatherland, constitute a striking illustration of his methods in statecraft. He was fairly entitled to say, "Ego qui feci."
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