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She saw that he was laboring hard to make himself agreeable; but his small talk had not the familiar flippancy and fluency of one speaking in his native tongue; nor was his manner that of one who, infatuated with her beauty, had thrown aside all other considerations. She felt that the man at her side measured her, and understood her littleness thoroughly.
Or, these materials for a fit and decent auditory failing me, I will tell my stories to the most attentive of all listeners myself. And the sentinel, without further delay, opened his budget of anecdotes, with the easy fluency of of a man who possessed a well-placed confidence in the perfection of his capacities for narration.
I should here explain that although I had studied the French language as part of my education, I found it impossible to speak French with any fluency or understand it when spoken. In an instant my hand was upon my pocket-book, only to find that I had neglected to take my passport from my valise.
Thomas Gordon was surprisingly well read and could floor Eric any time in argument, once he became sufficiently warmed up to attain fluency of words. Eric hardly recognized him the first time he saw him thus animated.
"Who are you strangers, and how came you here?" She turned to Rador. "Or is it that they do not understand our tongue?" "One understands and speaks it but very badly, O Yolara," answered the green dwarf. "Speak, then, that one of you," she commanded. But it was Marakinoff who found his voice first, and I marvelled at the fluency, so much greater than mine, with which he spoke.
She'll be there, right enough." Then, to make the separation they both wanted come a little easier, he invented an errand over on State Street and nodded Rodney farewell. For the next half-hour he cursed himself with vicious heartfelt fluency for a fool. Mightn't he have known what little Alec McEwen would say?
He could have tripped out the words with the fluency of ancient historians relating what great kings, ambassadors, or Generals may well have uttered on State occasions, but if you want the identical words, who is to remember them the day after they have been delivered?
My midshipman's life had neither disqualified nor disgusted me with the luxuries of the table; nor did I manifest the slightest backwardness or diffidence when invited by the gentlemen to take wine. I answered every question with such fluency of speech, and such compound interest of words, as sometimes caused the propounder to regret that he had put me to the trouble of speaking.
Eugenie, watching at the window across the street, ran to tell her father, who came out on his steps and reviled the van with all the fluency of his French ancestors. Mammy Easter opened the door, and then stood with her arms akimbo, amply filling its place. Her lips protruded, and an expression of defiance hard to describe sat on her honest black face. "Is this Colonel Carvel's house?" "Yassir.
"Nothing is easier to understand," interrupted the marquis. "I do not reside in Sweden, and we wished to throw you off the track." "Will you continue the explanation yourself?" asked Jacques Bricheteau, who spoke, as you may have observed, my dear friend, with elegance and fluency. "No, no, go on," said the marquis; "you are giving it admirably."
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