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"Again perhaps." He laughed once more, and drew his chair closer to the table. "Monsieur in other moods must have a pleasant laughter." "I haven't laughed from the heart in a very long time," he said, returning to his former gravity, this time unassumed. "And I have accomplished this amazing thing?" "No. You followed me here. But from where?" "Followed you?"
She confessed, however, with unassumed candour, that the immediate descendants of her sister were gracefully proficient in the art.
'Yet, in spite of this one's unassumed admiration for the contrivance, internal doubts regarding the ultimate happiness of the two persons who are now discussing the matter again attack her.
And how would the knowledge that it would be so, confuse your tongue or mine, and make exquisitely miserable that moment of rising before the audience! But our Solicitor-General rose to his legs a happy man, with all that grace of motion, that easy slowness, that unassumed confidence which belongs to the ordinary doings of our familiar life.
The representative could see for himself. With every semblance of complete complaisance the representative was escorted into the camp. With unassumed unconcern, but with deliberate intention, he was accompanied to Barracks 1 or 2, to see with his own eyes a typical illustration of the living quarters provided within the camp.
"That's what I call an ideal married couple," Kirk reflected "complete understanding, absolute confidence." And the more he saw of them, the stronger this impression grew. Cortlandt was always attentive and courteous, without being demonstrative, while his wife showed a charming graciousness that was plainly unassumed.
There also mingled with his satire an occasional melancholy of feeling, which appeared to Emily the more touching because it was always unexpected and unassumed. It was after one of these remarks, that for the first time she ventured to examine into the charm and peculiarity of the countenance of the speaker.
"You do not ask me for any account of my adventures," she said quietly, after watching his perplexed expression in silence for some time. Her tone almost startled him, its unassumed cheerfulness was so unlooked for. "No," he answered. "I thought you were too overwrought to talk of them at present." "Overwrought! Not a bit of it!
She was a singularly attractive girl, combining a wholesome and quite unassumed innocence with a certain measure of sophistication, gained by daily contact with the free and easy life of the studios.
That little hill, with its wooded background and vast frontage of prairie, from which he had loved to watch the sun get up after its nightly sojourn, would know him no more. His indifference was unassumed. His was not the nature to regret past follies.
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