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One afternoon, when I had accompanied him to the consulate, there entered a tall, active man, very well dressed, with black, thick-curling hair and keen, blue eyes. He seemed under thirty years of age, but had the self-confident manner of a man of the world, and a great briskness of demeanor and speech.
"Be secret!" and he kept his stern eye fixed upon him, as the coach began to move. "Be secret!" repeated the apothecary. I wonder, by the by, that it never came into my head to give the Colonel a dose of the cordial whereof I partook last night. I have no faith that it is a valuable medicine little or none and yet there has been an unwonted briskness in me all the morning."
"In truth it has been a singular business, and we are very fortunate to be out of it so well. Yet it was not treachery: no, no, Mr. Anne, it was not treachery; and if you will do me the favour to listen to me for the inside of a minute, I shall demonstrate the same to you beyond cavil." He seemed to wake up to his ordinary briskness. "You see the point?" he began.
As the old lady uttered the last words, I thought I saw her eyes turn from heaven, and take the earthly direction of the sofa in the front parlor. It struck me also that her lips looked rather dry. Upon these two hints I spoke. "Might I suggest some little stimulant?" I asked, with respectful earnestness. "You will find it under the sofa pillow," said Mrs. Baggs, with sudden briskness.
The next day after receiving the message, Covington again found himself within Levy's dingy offices, and this time he experienced no delay in being conducted to the sanctum in the rear, where he found the lawyer ready to receive him with a genial smile and a cordiality which expressed itself in the briskness with which he rubbed his hands together.
"Coachman," he cried, "just drive along the railway; you won't have the chance much longer." There was no sod turned yet and no rod set up; but the driver seemed to know what was meant, and took us over the springy turf where once had run the river. And the salt breath of the sea came over the pebble ridge, full of appetite and briskness, after so much London.
I wonder," the speaker added, with the briskness of one to whom a vivid thought suddenly occurs, "how it would work if one went and did exactly the contrary of what was intimated to the human conscience?" "That's not a new idea. There are people who habitually do so, or, rather, to whom an inverted moral law is delivered." "You mean the people who beat you at the polls last Tuesday?"
He looked with something like wonder at the nerve-shattered man who had risen to his feet with a certain air of briskness. "Horridge," he said, "I wish I had your pluck." "I don't know any one in the service from whom you need borrow any, sir," was the quiet reply.
She turned away, and found friendly hands stretched out to draw her to a seat. The next speaker was an alert little woman with a provincial accent and the briskness of a cock-sparrow, whose prettiness, combined with pertness, rather demoralized the mob. 'Men and women, she began, pitching her rather thin voice several notes too high.
The mind can rust as well as the body if it is not rubbed up in Paris; but the thing on which provincialism most sets its stamp is gesture, gait, and movement; these soon lose the briskness which Paris constantly keeps alive.
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