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"Who sent you?" she continued, and he understood that he was not there in answer to a want advertisement. "Professor Blackburn." And he presented his letter and went on, with a return of his glibness: "You see, I've been working my way through Harvard preparing for the ministry Congregationalist. Found I'd have to stop and go to work regularly for a while before I could finish.
It brought him to a melancholy standstill, disturbed at last by Gongi touching him on the arm and pointing towards the post-office. His language to Gongi was strong; he called the place by names that were not polite; and even on the threshold of the official domain said that the Devil would have his last big muster there. But from that instant his glibness declined.
You know he was at the Fair, reporting for a newspaper." "That explains his glibness. Don't have anything to do with him, Mary. He's just trying to draw you on. The burnt dog should dread the fire." "But he admires me, don't he?" "He says so, but he is much more anxious that you should admire him.
Stanley asked what had happened, Coronado told them with perfect glibness that the robbers had got away. The rescued man, delighted at his escape and the recovery of his mule and luggage, returned thanks right and left, with a volubility which further acquaintance showed to be one of his characteristics.
When he came to be questioned orally, the examiner, by a chance that would not occur once in a million times, asked the candidate to repeat these very articles. Reade rattled them off with the greatest glibness, and produced so favorable an impression that he was let go without any further questioning.
Mamie looked horrified; there was a sound of smothered laughter, and Norbert, overwhelmed by the treachery of his own mouth, sat gasping. "It can't be such a terrific place, then, after all," said Ariel, gently, and turning to Eugene, "Have you ever been there, Mr. Bantry?" she asked. He changed color, but answered with enough glibness: "No."
The once goodly row of quartos looks now like a set of mineral teeth that have essayed too closely to simulate Nature by assaulting a Boston cracker; and the intervals of vacuity among the books, as among the incisors, deprive the owner of his accustomed glibness in pronouncing himself on certain topics.
Ambrose began to feel an obscure and discomforting indignation at his visitor. He wished he would go. "You really must see our plant before you go back," said Strange; "the model farm, the dairy herd, the flourmill, the sawmill. Will you come up to-morrow and let me take you about?" His glibness had the effect of rendering Ambrose monosyllabic. "No," he said.
First he had been astonished at the freedom of sarcasm these people indulged in without quarreling; next at the non-respect of sex. "So sex is not recognized in this community," thought he. Then the glibness and merit of some of their answers surprised and amused him. He, like me, had seldom met an imaginative repartee, except in a play or a book.
"One game," said Halibut, speaking very slowly and distinctly; "and if the winner is refused, the loser not to propose until he gives him permission." "What the deuce for?" inquired the other, suspiciously. "Suppose I win," replied Halibut, with suspicious glibness, "and was so upset that I had one of my bilious attacks come on, where should I be?
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