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"Come out here, you beggar," he called, and Vernon reappeared on the threshold. "Take a look at this," he added, and held out the note. "Maybe you won't be so cocksure hereafter that diplomats are always making mountains out of mole-hills." Vernon took the paper and read it slowly, his face growing blanker and more blank as he proceeded.
I believe that twenty thousand pounds of the money he has stolen is on board this vessel at this moment, and I now demand access to his cabin." "Do you? How are you going to enforce your demand, my cocksure friend?" Otway rose, and placing his two hands on the table, looked insultingly at the detective. "What rot you are talking, man!" The detective drew back, alarmed and startled.
He could not see how genuinely comic was his own unreconstructed ardor how exaggerated was his cocksure manner how thoroughly he spoke as though he himself had bled on the field of honor. From her hammock she watched him with serene and inscrutable complacency, from under long, half-closed lashes. In his gaze was inarticulate wrath, but back of that idolatry.
The roar of State Street filled the ears of Robert Orme not unpleasantly. He liked Chicago, felt towards the Western city something more than the tolerant, patronizing interest which so often characterizes the Eastern man. To him it was the hub of genuine Americanism young, aggressive, perhaps a bit too cocksure, but ever bounding along with eyes toward the future.
These first pages bear witness both to the energy of his genius and also to its unenlightenment; he seems more ignorant and more cocksure than so great a man should be. Dickens was never stupid, but he was sometimes silly; and he is occasionally silly here. All this must be said to prepare the more fastidious modern for these papers, if he has never read them before.
Imagine him in the part, Bob. Lord, how the women raved about him!" "I say, Phil, don't be ass enough to tell anybody else about this, even if you're cocksure he's the man. He was doubtless driven to the stage for financial reasons, you know, and it wouldn't be quite right to bring it up now if he has a desire to suppress the truth.
Aleck, more philosophical, took his happiness with a more quiet gusto, not provoking the frown of the gods. But for Jim the day of reckoning was coming. One day Aleck joined him, walking up and down the porch. Jim was in one of his boyish, cocksure moods. "I know what you're going to say," he began, before Aleck could spring his news. "You're going to marry the princess." "Just so," said Aleck.
Little did the man suspect the kind of blow that his statement contained. Joan darted an agonized look at Martin. "But Mr. Palgrave is at 'ome, miss." And that galvanized the boy into action. He had met Gilbert Palgrave out hunting. He had seen the impertinent, cocksure way in which he ran his eyes over women. He clutched the handle of the case and said: "That's all right, thanks.
They were not a people who could cut and dry their sentiments; they were all impulse and simplicity, with an obvious cocksure shrewdness too, like that of Jean Jacques of the old Jean Jacques. He had been the epitome of all their faults and all their virtues. No one cheered.
It might make trouble you know," said Lathrop. "Pshaw," retorted the cocksure Billy, "what trouble can it make? I wish I knew bow to say 'Look pleasant, please, in Hottentot, or whatever language these fellows talk." By this time old Sikaso's 'pow-wow' was over and he motioned Frank and Harry forward.
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