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"No," said Beth, rather surlily; "we have hard work to keep ourselves." "But you must be nearly through with school by this time. I finished my education ages ago." "Did you graduate?" asked Beth. "No; it wasn't worth while," declared Louise, complacently. "I'm sure I know as much as most girls do, and there are more useful lessons to be learned from real life than from books."
At the sight of this crime of the patrician Trymalcion, outraging the chastity of a child, the three fettered Gallic women and the matron made a desperate but vain effort to break from their irons, and began to pour out a torrent of imprecations and groans. Trymalcion finished complacently his disgusting examination, and said a few words to the merchant.
"Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort," he said complacently. Anne nipped a smile in the bud. "Perhaps there will . . . if we want it," she said, "But what makes you think so?" "Why, it's in the catechism," said Davy. "Oh, no, there is nothing like THAT in the catechism, Davy." "But I tell you there is," persisted Davy.
They would complacently profess the freedom of their instincts: but their instincts were faded and faint; and their profligacy was chiefly cerebral. They delighted in feeling themselves sink into the great piscina of civilization, that warm mud-bath in which human energy, the primeval and vital forces, primitive animalism, and its blossom of faith, will, duties, and passions, are liquefied.
On the other hand, the robust peasant girl who has given birth to a son, looking complacently at her heavy breasts, thinks: "I shall be able to get a good place as wet nurse."
She wore no jewels, not so much as a chain round her neck, and the dress by some witchery was black once more, a thin black gauze, heavily jetted. He pointed at it with a curious finger. "I could have sworn it was green over there! What has happened to turn it into black?" Cornelia laughed complacently. "It's meant to change!
"I'm going to take a photograph of this house to-morrow, and perhaps" here he smiled complacently "perhaps Miss Grace and Miss Elizabeth will consent to come into the picture?" "Ya-as ya-as! oh do!" drawled Wrotham. "Of course they will! You will, I'm sure, Miss Grace! This gentleman, Mr.
Gurney," said Cowperwood, complacently, after staring at Stephanie grimly and scorching her with his scorn, "I have no concern with you, and do not propose to do anything to disturb you or Miss Platow after a very few moments. I am not here without reason. This young woman has been steadily deceiving me. She has lied to me frequently, and pretended an innocence which I did not believe.
"And then," as he confided to Dartie the same evening in the course of a game of billiards at the Red Pottle, "I lost him." Dartie twirled complacently at his dark moustache. He had just put together a neat break of twenty-three, failing at a 'Jenny. "And who was she?" he asked.
All of which is merely by way of stating that Miss Estella Benton was a young woman who had grown up quite complacently in that station of life in which to quote the Philistines it had pleased God to place her, and that Chance had somehow, to her astonished dismay, contrived to thrust a spoke in the smooth-rolling wheels of destiny. Or was it Destiny?
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