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But her stammered words came as clearly to his ears as though they were being shouted. "Smallpox!" He sat down heavily in the chair whence he had risen to receive her, and Miss Pilgrim through her tears saw him shrivel in a gust of utter terror. All his mask of complacency, of kindly power, of reticence of spirit fell from him; he gulped, and his mouth sagged slack. She moved a pace nearer to him.
Discontent, therefore, took in the main a different form. Some government was, of course, necessary, and the existing system was too much in harmony, even in its defects, with the social order to provoke any distinct revolutionary sentiment. Englishmen were not only satisfied with their main institutions, but regarded them with exaggerated complacency.
He couldn't have been more romantic if I'd been Fanny," she mused with an agreeable complacency. "It's only in books and plays that people stop falling in love when they pass the twenties. I don't believe they ever stop in real life. I believe it goes on forever." And glancing at the glass, she added truthfully: "I want love more to-day than I wanted it when I was twenty and so does Ben O'Hara."
"If he doesn't like what his wife does, he should have character enough to control her. Besides he should have known all that before he married!" Isabelle smiled at this piece of masculine complacency, as if a man could know any essential fact about a woman from the way she did her hair to the way she spent money before he had lived with her!
He who practises them will 'find favour with God and man, for God looks with complacency on those who display the right attitude to men; and men for the most part treat us as we treat them. There are surly natures which are not won by kindness, like black tarns among the hills, that are gloomy even in sunshine, and requite evil for good; but the most of men reflect our feelings to them.
I had to admit that my knowledge of his resourceful nature had not prepared me for such an ignoble catastrophe, but I added that all the more his conduct mystified me. "Quite so!" he remarked, with another grim smile of complacency. "Sit down here on this bed, if you can find room, and I'll tell you all about it."
Beckett has picked up with eager delight, and, having distributed them liberally throughout the poem, contemplates with a complacency to be matched only by his satisfaction with the success of his expedients for filling out his rhymes, some of which are certainly ingenious and startling,
"I dressed in five minutes," said Ernestine, smoothing down her gown with the complacency of a woman who knows she has nothing to fear from scrutiny. "As if that had anything to do with it! You dress as the birds and flowers dress by just being yourself." She let that bit of masculine ignorance pass with a wise little smile. They were in the laboratory now.
At every fresh epithet of the Minister the Abbe bowed his head down to his plate with a smile of cheerfulness and self- complacency, and with a sort of leer. I never saw a more ignoble countenance.
Of yourself you observed, in a Report on contemporary literature, that your 'courage and sincerity never allowed you to tolerate work not absolutely good. And yet you regarded 'La Pucelle with some complacency. On the 'Pucelle you were occupied during a generation of mortal men.
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