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Anthony had picked up the lease and waved it wildly, found Gloria happily acquiescent, and with one last burst of garrulous decision during which all the men agreed with solemn handshakes that they would come out for a visit ... "Anthony," she cried, "we've signed and sent it!" "What?" "The lease!" "What the devil!" "Oh, Anthony!" There was utter misery in her voice.
He had risen to his feet, grasped his guest's hand, motioned toward his hat; then, in an instant, all was eclipsed in sinister muteness and gloom. Did this imply one brief, repentant relenting at the final moment, from some iniquitous plot, followed by remorseless return to it? His last glance seemed to express a calamitous, yet acquiescent farewell to Captain Delano forever.
He was always pleasantly acquiescent, and had the rare gift of making himself useless agreeably; a common bond of interest we had in the Colorado claro and oscuro, whether the fair or dark, applied to the friendly weed or the still more friendly fair sex. He describes himself pretty correctly in a letter he wrote to us from Paris, when he says:
I'm sure you won't mind for once, and a breath of sea air will do me good." She laid a hand of careless coaxing upon Olga's shoulder. But Olga's demeanour was very far from acquiescent. "But, Violet!" she exclaimed, "how could you possibly accept for me? I'm not going! No; indeed, I'm not! Neither must you. It's the maddest project I ever heard of!
He smiled savagely at the picture he drew of the right sort, which, it is needless to add, was not a congenial type. "An acquiescent fool for a son-in-law, a kind of gentlemanly valet!" And, "That, I trust, will be the end. Maud as a mother would be atrocious." His daughter gave the doctor a certain kind of scientific interest.
There was an hour to spare; and if the vice-president of the Transcontinental was not the king, he was at least a great man, and one whose invitation was in some sense a royal command. "Certainly, I'll be glad to go with you," was Blount's acquiescent rejoinder.
A slow wind, spice-laden with the faint, crisp fragrancies of the desert, swung her to a sweet rhythm. She closed her eyes happily ... and when she opened them, Banneker was standing over her, smiling. "Don't speak to me," she murmured; "I want to believe that this will last forever." Silent and acquiescent, he seated himself in a camp-chair close by.
I will go and see him this morning. Let us walk there, directly, Susan. Miss Nipper having nothing to urge against the proposal, but being perfectly acquiescent, they were soon equipped, and in the streets, and on their way towards the little Midshipman.
They had left Franklin under the limes with Helen; he had been reading something to Helen out of a pamphlet, and Helen had looked, though rather sleepy, kindly acquiescent; but the memory of the past could do no more than stir a faint pity for the present Franklin; she was wishing and it seemed the most irresistible longing of all her life that Gerald Digby wanted to kiss her too.
Dick was now strong enough to walk from his room to the porch, and Raven, watching him, saw in him a greater change than the languor of low vitality. He was largely silent, not, it sometimes seemed, from weakness, but the torpor of a tired mind. He was responsive to their care for him, ready with the fitting word and look and yet, underneath the good manners of it all, patently acquiescent.
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