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These conditions were afterwards altered by the captor, who, wheedling his captive with a few bland words, persuaded him to surrender on the 20th on condition that Ney and his corps remained before Ulm until the 25th.
The only flaw in her joy was a slight dread of Noel; but this he very quickly dispelled, singling her out at once to plead for dances. "You've saved a few for me, I know," he said, in his wheedling Irish way, and she saw at once that, whatever his inner feelings, he had no intention of wearing his heart on his sleeve. She showed him her programme.
Her mother seemed actually passive in comparison. For skilful wheedling I could fall down and worship that woman; I really admire her. As long as the girl was with us she kept herself in the background and put the girl at me. It was simply a masterpiece." "How do you know she put her at you?" asked Brinkley. "How? By the way she seemed not to do it!
Ah! she had brought him her saucy children; ah! she had got herself picked up from the pavement, wheedling him with rosy dreams! Mon Dieu! he had a rare cheek! So many words, so many lies. She hadn't wished to have anything to do with him, that was the truth. He had dragged himself at her feet to make her give way, whilst she was advising him to think well what he was about.
'What did I know? said Miss Mowcher, taking out her handkerchief again, and giving one little stamp on the ground whenever, at short intervals, she applied it to her eyes with both hands at once. 'He was crossing you and wheedling you, I saw; and you were soft wax in his hands, I saw. How could I BUT believe him? I saw Steerforth soothe and please you by his praise of her!
His tenderness was mere wheedling. He dropped his feigned melancholy at the door when he put on his overshoes, or took his umbrella. He used the tone his long intimacy authorized as an instrument to work himself still further into the bosom of the family, and bring Marguerite to a marriage which the whole town was beginning to foresee.
"Aunt 'Liza," Arethusa knelt down by that lady's chair and put her glowing face very close to her aunt's; her tone was most wheedling. "Aunt 'Liza, is there any of my money left?" "There is," declared Miss Eliza, with satisfaction. "There is. I've saved your step-mother quite a tidy bit of what she sent. It's too bad if Ross has married a woman with extravagant tastes just like his own; too bad!
But Miss Greeby was not to be frightened by withering glances, and merely laughed aloud, showing her white teeth. Her rough merriment and masculine looks showed Chaldea that, as a rival, she was not to be feared, so the angry expression on the dark face changed to a wheedling smile. "Avali! Avali! The Gorgios lady wants her fortune told."
"Why, I was wanting to tell you, dearest," she began, in a tone which he felt to be wheedling, and she told the story of the scissors. "Look here, my dear! Didn't you promise to let this love-affair alone?" "That was on the ship. And besides, what would you have done, I should like to know? Would you have refused to let him buy them for her?"
So you thought that Elizabeth was to be beholden to the lieutenant for a character ?" "Dear mother Kirstine!" Salvé cried, interrupting her in the full torrent of her indignation, "I didn't think about it I couldn't think. Only, I heard Anders of the Crag down on the slip this morning say it all so confidently. "Anders of the Crag? So it was from him you heard it? the pitiful, wheedling rascal!