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"It is impossible not to respect a man who carries a fortune in his head and refuses to profit by it out of a delicate sense of honour." "I should have very little respect for a man who betrayed his master's secrets," said Zorzi. "You know them then?" inquired the other with unusual blandness. "I did not say so." Zorzi looked at him coldly. "Oh no! Even to admit it might not be discreet.
Her father was rather proud than fond of her her servants did not love her she had too little consideration for others, too little blandness and suavity to be loved by inferiors she was too learned and too stern to find pleasure in the conversation and society of young ladies of her own age: she had no friends.
Ingham-Baker, with the soft blandness of one for whom money has absolutely no attraction. "About enough to pay their washerwoman." There was a pause, and then Mrs. Ingham-Baker heaved a little sigh. "I am sure, dear," she said, "that in some way you will be rewarded for your great kindness to these poor orphan boys."
It was, therefore, with his accustomed blandness of manner that he presently acknowledged the greeting of George Demarest, the chief of the legal staff that looked after the firm's affairs. He was aware without being told that the lawyer had called to acquaint him with the issue in the trial of Mary Turner.
"It's good to marry and I think it's right. I've not done right, I know that. If she's a good woman it's the best thing," Mr. Carteret went on. "It's what I've been hoping for you. Sometimes I've thought of speaking to you." "She's a very good woman," said Nick. "And I hope she's not poor." Mr. Carteret spoke exactly with the same blandness. "No indeed, she's rich.
"I mean," he replied with diabolical blandness, "that this lady is my wife, and will from this time take charge of this establishment." "Richard Bristed, you cannot, dare not make that assertion! I am your wife, though I acknowledge it with shame and sorrow. He has misled you, madam," said I, turning to the lady. "You are mistaken if you suppose I shall abandon my rights."
Now she sat with her hand in Susan's, face to face with the dangerous act, and anticipating the end, when at last Claude would confront the world he had avoided so carefully till she came into his life. The act, which had been chaotic at rehearsal, was going with perfect smoothness, almost too smoothly Charmian began to think. It glided on its way almost with a certain blandness.
All those about her were her inferiors, or persons who hastened to do her bidding, till she grew to be as haughty as a great lady, with none of the charming blandness and urbanity of a great lady.
Many a supper they ate through without a word. The old man's attitude toward the young one was charming. He had sloughed off some of the too polished blandness of his manner, and now offered a simpler meeting ground of naturalness and kindliness. They had shared the Duke of Gloucester Street roof-tree for a month, but Queed did not yet accept it as a matter of course.
"Who on earth are you?" cried the stranger in a high shrill voice, brandishing his cane defensively. "Let me see," said Turnbull, looking round to MacIan with the same blandness. "Who are we?" "Come out," screamed the little man with the stick. "Certainly," said Turnbull, and went outside with the sword, MacIan following.
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