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"As long as you'll let us," said Etta, who was delighting Gulick with her frank and wondering and grateful appreciation of his munificence. Never before had his own private opinion of himself received such a flatteringly sweeping indorsement from anyone who happened to impress him as worth while.
"He must be horrid with women," she said to Hazel, who admitted that "there have been stories a man living by himself, as he does!" And so this solution came to naught. Milly was "up against it again," as she said to herself. Her small bank-account was fast melting away. It became known among her friends that "Milly must really do something." "Your gift is people," she said flatteringly.
"It is well," I replied, dropping into a more meaning tone. "You say it patriarchally, but yet flatteringly." Here she casually offered me a flower. I mechanically placed it in my buttonhole. She seemed delighted at confusing me. But I kept on firmly. "I do not think," I rejoined gravely now, "that there need be any flattery between us." "Why? We are not married."
We did not find our fellow-republicans flatteringly polite, but we found them firm, and, for all I know, honest. At least they seemed as honest as we were, and that is saying a great deal. What struck us from the beginning was the surliness of the men and the industry of the women; and I am persuaded that the Swiss Government is really carried on by the house-keeping sex.
He took his cigar from his lips, only to sip at a long cool drink. He was in a mood flatteringly confidential and communicative. "People have the strangest idea of what I can do for them," he laughed. It was his pose to pretend he was without authority. "They believe I've only to wave a wand, and get them anything they want. I thought I'd be safe from them on board a yacht."
A poet, painter, sculptor, possibly an actor or musician anyhow, something to which the generic name of artist, soiled with all ignoble use, could more or less flatteringly be applied I made sure he was; an ornament of our own English-speaking race, moreover, proclaimed such by the light of intelligence that played upon his features as he followed our noisy conversation; and, at a guess, two or three-and-thirty years of age.
"If I were situated as Merril flatteringly suggests, I should enjoy nothing better than such an experiment," he replied deliberately. "It would be quite a novel sensation to revolutionize one's ordinary rule of conduct so as to make a point of seeming bad or stupid. There would be as much psychology in it as in an extra term, at least.
"Deaf?" asked the old man in astonishment. "Yes, they scarcely understand a word correctly, and even Xanthe, who has just reached her seventeenth year, is beginning to be hard of hearing." A smile flitted over Jason's face, and, raising his voice to a louder tone, he said, flatteringly: "Every one can't have senses as keen as yours, Semestre; have you time to listen to me?"
In this clearer light Whelpdale was exhibited as a young man of greatly improved exterior; he wore a cream-coloured waistcoat, a necktie of subtle hue, and delicate gloves; prosperity breathed from his whole person. It was, in fact, only a moderate prosperity to which he had as yet attained, but the future beckoned to him flatteringly.
"You love him," said I, but in a milder and more mournful tone, "you love him; it is enough; I will persecute you no more; and yet " I paused a moment, for the remembrance of many a sign, which my heart had interpreted flatteringly, flashed upon me, and my voice faltered. "Well, I have no right to murmur only, Isora only tell me with your lips that you love another, and I will depart in peace."
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