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Intangible objections to the desires of our hearts do not count for much against their realization; there needs the rough attrition of reality to turn back our calm, complacent acquisition of that which we see to be for our best interest in the emotional world. Claims of ancestry mean nothing. Claims of society mean not much more.
"These country towns always go in for the reform stuff, every so often. If you'd listen to me and " His father interrupted harshly: "Now, cut that out. I don't want to go to New York, and I won't." Peter Knight tried to look forceful, but the expression did not fit his weak, complacent features.
And remembering comfortable, complacent white Christians well fed, well housed, well clothed; with education and all that it implies as their heritage; with all the high things of the world open to them by reason of their white skin; praying decorously every Sunday to a white man's God Peter felt confused.
'W-h-o-o-y! repeated he, 'I shouldn't think though, mind, it's mere conjectur' on my part that you couldn't offer him less than twenty or five-and-twenty punds; or, say, from that to thirty, continued Jack, seeing that Puff's countenance remained complacent under the rise.
Holway, says I, 'is it true that Dan and Gaius have resigned and agreed to vote for somebody else? "He nodded, grand and complacent. "'Then who's the somebody? says I. 'For the land sakes! tell me. It's as big a miracle as the prodigal son. "I remember now that the prodigal son ain't a miracle, but I was excited then. "'Stitt, says he, 'I am the "somebody," as you call it.
The famous Swiss band from the capital plays in the little plaza every evening, while the fourteen carriages and vehicles in the town circle in funereal but complacent procession. Indians from the interior mountains, looking like prehistoric stone idols, come down to peddle their handiwork in the streets. The people throng the narrow ways, a chattering, happy, careless stream of buoyant humanity.
One or two turned to glance at me, but when their gaze met mine they despatched their eyes on some impartial quest, as if caressing their noble church or looking for some lingering friend. The precentor, whose place was in a kind of songster's pulpit just below me, was wreathed in the complacent air of a man who has discharged a lofty duty and has done it well.
Of course Blossy would "get over" this; and Angy knew that his heart was hers as much as it had been the day he purchased his wedding-beaver; but Abe could not refrain from a chuckle of complacent amusement as he stroked his beard. His very evident hardness of heart so horrified the old ladies that they all began to attack him at once.
There seems to be nothing more sad than the complacent, easy-going way in which men allow themselves to keep their higher moral principles and their more rigid self-examination for the 'great' things, as they suppose, and let the little things often take care of themselves.
'Well, my dear, I've no objection, replied Joggle, wiping a tear from the corner of his eye with his coat-cuff. 'That's a good soul! exclaimed Mrs. Jogglebury soothingly. 'Go to-morrow, like a nice, sensible man. 'Very well, replied her now complacent spouse. 'And ask him to come here, continued she.
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