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'I'm no' gaun to tell ye a single thing. My concerns are my ain, an' if ye're no' pleased, weel, I can shift. The girl's matter-of-fact, unruffled demeanour somewhat allayed Teen's burning anxiety, and, afraid to try Liz too far, lest she should insist on leaving her, she held her peace. 'Your Aunt Isabel was here this afternoon, George, said Mrs.
Yet by the simple instincts of a soul undebased by self-indulgence or low pursuits, he was drawn ever toward things lofty and good; and life went calmly on, bearing Godfrey Wardour toward middle age, unruffled either by anxiety or ambition.
"And you secured the window on the inside after he had gone." "No!" The monosyllable escaped her lips like the yap of a dog at bay. "You secured the window on the inside after he had gone," Durham repeated in cold, unruffled tones. Mrs. Eustace sprang to her feet and faced him. "It's a lie," she cried. "The room was empty when I came to it." "The room was empty, quite so. And the window was open.
The wide and frost-bound water here and there had been swept clear of its snows by the wind, but for the most part its covering lay unruffled; and the pale dove-colors, and saffrons, and rose-lilacs of the dawn were sweetly reflected on its surface. The doomed ox was now journeying very slowly, and with the greatest labor.
The huge trader moved not an inch; his face altered not a bit; immovable as a statue, unruffled as the Sphinx, he still stared up at the wreck. Vandersee stood still, showing no surprise, nor apparently interested in the least in the little piece of clever gun-play that his big compatriot had accomplished. But Leyden now showed all the traits of the cornered rat.
In her bearing, in all her motions, there was a regal quality; yet, too, something of isolation, of withdrawal, in her self-possession and unruffled observation.
For the rest, the Pope's Holiness preserved an unruffled front in the face of the hostile preparations that were toward in the kingdom of Naples, knowing that he could check them when he chose to lift his finger and beckon the Sforza into alliance.
Clark, and leaning trustfully on his arm the comfortable figure of Mrs. Bowman. Her brow was unruffled and her lips smiling. "Beautiful morning," she said, pleasantly, as they met. "Lovely!" murmured the wondering Mr. Tucker, trying, but in vain, to catch the eye of Mr. Clark. "I have been paying an early visit," said the widow, still smiling. "I surprised you, didn't I, Nathaniel?"
And they brought, by force of arms, many a prince under their subjection. And thus, setting their hearts on virtue and firmly adhering to truth, unruffled by affluence, calm in deportment, and putting down numerous evils, the Pandavas gradually rose to power.
"Yes, he skipped his bond or something," said the newspaper man, "and became an exile." The satisfied one snorted. "Exile!" he derided. "You don't call a man an exile who runs away from a country he has always despised and fought against?" "The last time I saw him," went on the newspaper man, as if he were unruffled, "was about four or five days before he disappeared. I was surprised to see him.
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