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They had clearly heard of the golden toad, and desired to know more of him; but Uncle Sam, with his usual blandness, met these men at the gate of his yard, and upon the top rail, to ease his arm, he rested a rifle of heavy metal, with seven revolving chambers. The robbers found out that they had lost their way, and Mr.
Clement answered; and, as he said it, the thought stung through him that this was the very stone which was to have worn the pleasant blandness of pretty Susan's guileless countenance. How the new features had effaced the recollection of the others! In a few days more Clement had finished his bust. His hours were again vacant to his thick-coming fancies.
"Then, sir," said Armand, a little bewildered, "am I to understand that if I hold myself at your disposition Mademoiselle Lange will be set free as early to-morrow morning as may be?" "No doubt, sir no doubt," replied Chauvelin with more than his accustomed blandness; "if you will hold yourself entirely at our disposition, Mademoiselle Lange will be set free to-morrow.
Then tremulously with the air of one who, just as a matter of spiritual tidiness, would purge her soul of all sad secrets, she lifted her entrancing, tear-flushed face from her strong, sturdy, utterly unemotional fingers and stared with amazing blueness, amazing blandness into the Senior Surgeon's scowling scrutiny. "And I'd named her for you!" she said. "I'd named her Patience for you!"
His faculty of observation, which was very acute, had detected something false in the chief's blandness to their guest something dangerous in the glittering eye that Gawtrey ever, as he spoke to Giraumont, bent on that person's lips as he listened to his reply. For, whenever William Gawtrey suspected a man, he watched not his eyes, but his lips.
"The Republic has been unusually patient and long-suffering with you, Citizen Chauvelin. She has taken your many services and well-known patriotism into consideration. But you know," he added significantly, "that she has no use for worthless tools." Then as Chauvelin seemed to have relapsed into sullen silence, he continued with his original ill-omened blandness: "Ma foi!
I must admit that I hear this work much admired by many; to me it seems old-fashioned and lacking in blandness and affability. Mr Waterhouse has a study of a subject from a poem that Mr. It represents a very delicate invalid, in a boat, under a counterpane. They crossed themselves, their stars they blest, Knight, minstrel, abbot, squire, and guest.
Veronese is not a great favourite of mine; but there is a blandness and aristocratic ease and mastery here that are irresistible. As a fine massive arrangement of men, architecture, and colour, it is superb.
Everything was great, of course, in great pictures, and it was doubtless precisely a part of the brilliant life since the brilliant life, as one had faintly figured it, clearly was humanly led that all impressions within its area partook of its brilliancy; still, letting that pass, it fairly stamped an hour as with the official seal for one to be able to take in so comfortably one's companion's broad blandness.
Her blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse. Miriam, on the other side of the room, in the tranquil beauty of her attitude "found" indeed, as Nick had said watched her a little and then declared she had best have been locked up at home.
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