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Where was yeh?" "Over on th' right. I got separated" began the youth with considerable glibness. But his friend had interrupted hastily. "Yes, an' he got shot in th' head an' he's in a fix, an' we must see t' him right away." He rested his rifle in the hollow of his left arm and his right around the youth's shoulder. "Gee, it must hurt like thunder!" he said.
"Ah, I've heard a great many girls talk like that beforehand," she answered at once with her society glibness; "but when the right man turned up, they soon forgot their protestations. It makes a lot of difference, dear, when a man really asks you!" Herminia bent her head. "You misunderstand me," she replied. "I don't mean to say I will never fall in love. I expect to do that.
"You do?" he said, and filling a bumper he with cheerfully vinous articulation and glibness of tongue proposed the health of Richard and Lucy Feverel, of Raynham Abbey! and that mankind should not require an expeditious example of the way to accept the inspiring toast, he drained his bumper at a gulp. It finished him. The farthing rushlight of his reason leapt and expired.
"Yes I know 'Father," assented Barton with astonishing glibness. Once again the girl threw out her hand in an incongruous gesture of appeal. "The things that Father thinks are necessary!" she exclaimed softly. Noiselessly as a shadow she edged herself forward into the light till she faced Barton almost squarely. "Maybe you think it's fun, Mr. Barton," she whispered.
But I was equal to the situation. "My dear Falk," I said, beginning to lie with a glibness and effrontery that amazed me even at the time "confidence for confidence." He caught my hand and wrung it in a crushing grip. "Pardon me. I feel it every day more difficult to live alone..." "On rice and fish," I interrupted smartly, giggling with the sheer nervousness of a danger escaped.
I trust the change will not affect your glibness, for it is quite exhilarating. How long do you purpose remaining in Interlaken?" "That isn't changing the subject," said he. "I shall be here for a week or ten days or perhaps longer." He put it in the form of a question, after all. "Indeed? How I envy you. I am sorry to say I shall have to leave in a day or two." His face fell.
The man could laugh readily, but he was also characterized by a certain gravity, which she found refreshing by contrast with the light glibness to which she was more accustomed. "Well," he reasoned, "in my opinion, the white man's greatest superiority over all other peoples is his capacity for making useful things even if they're only ugly sawmills or grimy locomotives.
But of course if the soldiers come and the trouble blows over without any demonstration whatever, there will be considerable dissatisfaction among the people as to why such a step should have been taken. Uncle Parker," he added, turning to the record-keeper, "think we'll have much cold weather this winter?" Parker did not answer at once. He knew that glibness would argue against due meditation.
His very lack of glibness, the things in him wanting expression and not getting expressed, made him seem like one of them. He did not confuse their minds but drew for them great scrawling pictures and to them he cried, "March!" and for marching he promised them realisation of themselves. "I have heard men in colleges and speakers in halls talk of the brotherhood of man," he cried.
A fallen minister, if he is to rise again to power, must show that he is to be feared; this man, intoxicated by Royal glibness, had fancied that his position would be permanent; he acknowledged his delinquencies; besides confessing them, he did Marcas a small money service, for Marcas had got into debt. He subsidized the newspaper on which Marcas worked, and made him the manager of it.
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