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Blandness of speech and manners was his distinguishing outward peculiarity; and this seems to characterize his nation, whether learned from him, or whether an inborn national peculiarity, I do not know. He went through great trials most creditably, but he was no martyr.
It struck him, directly he had found it, as pompous and priggish; so much so that he was thankful to Chad for taking it only in the right spirit. The young man spoke so immensely to the point that the effect was practically of positive blandness. "Absolutely without reproach. A beautiful life. Allez donc voir!"
There was a blankness in her blandness, assuredly, and very nearly an extravagance in her generalising gaiety; a precipitation of cheer particularly marked whenever they met again after short separations: meetings during the first flush of which Maggie sometimes felt reminded of other looks in other faces; of two strangely unobliterated impressions above all, the physiognomic light that had played out in her husband at the shock she had come at last to talk to herself of the "shock" of his first vision of her on his return from Matcham and Gloucester, and the wonder of Charlotte's beautiful bold wavering gaze when, the next morning in Eaton Square, this old friend had turned from the window to begin to deal with her.
Thomasina rose from her seat, and waved her hand towards the door. She was all smiles and blandness, but a gasp of dismay sounded through the room, as if a private interview in the Head Girl's study was no light thing to contemplate. Rhoda's heart beat fast with apprehension. What was going to happen. What would take place next?
However impatient he may have been with her blandness he said readily: "Yes, guess I better do that. Excuse me a second. Like to meet your friends must be fine women and I might take a look and see how Hugh sleeps. Like to know how he breathes. Don't think he has adenoids, but I better make sure, eh?" He patted her shoulder.
He contended that, so great were the issues and so dubious the evidence, Hamlet had every right to hesitate. "The commercial blandness," he wrote, "with which people talk of Hamlet's 'plain duty' makes one wonder if they recognize such a thing as plain morality.
Finally, when protest had proved unavailing, the harried oligarchy began at last to arm, and it was not long before forty thousand men, mostly Slavonic mercenaries, were enlisted under its banner. With his usual conciliatory blandness, Bonaparte next proposed to the senate a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive. This was not a mere diplomatic move.
Such legal knowledge as came to him here was of service through all his later life, but law gave place to arms, the natural bias of most Englishmen at that date, and he became captain of eighty volunteers "raised in and about Northhampton, and forming part of the force collected by order of Queen Elizabeth to assist Henry IV. of France, in the war against Philip II. of Spain," He was at the siege of Amiens in 1597, and returned home when it ended, having, though barely of age, already gained distinction as a soldier, and acquired the courtesy of manner which distinguished him till later life, and the blandness of which often blinded unfamiliar acquaintances to the penetration and acumen, the honesty and courage that were the foundations of his character.
She thought of something, kept it back a moment, and then spoke. "I know what's in it!" He of course burst out laughing and, while Mrs. Wix groaned an "Oh heavens!" replied: "You wouldn't say that, old boy, if you did! The point I make is," he continued to Mrs. Wix with a blandness now re-established "the point I make is simply that it sets Mrs. Beale free." She hung fire but an instant.
Oh, there you are, Rupert," a well-simulated blandness invading her voice; "and what's Fanny Fitz doing?" "She's trying to do a Mayo man over a horse-deal," replied Mr. Rupert Gunning. "A horse-deal!" repeated Mrs. Spicer incredulously. "Fanny buying a horse! Oh, impossible!" "Well, I don't know about that," said Mr. Gunning, "she's trying pretty hard. I gave her my opinion "
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