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They were quiet, civil, and remarkably good-humored, making due allowance for the national gruffness; there was no riot, no tumultuous swaying to and fro of the mass, such as I have often noted in an American crowd, no noise of voices, except frequent bursts of laughter, hoarse or shrill, and a widely diffused, inarticulate murmur, resembling nothing so much as the rumbling of the tide among the arches of London Bridge.
He was, however, straight as a die; was afraid of few things and no persons; and if he liked you, he had an especial manner for you which took the edge off his gruffness so that you wondered why you had ever thought him disagreeable.
He would not be sorry if he had, although it was rather a pity that he had not waited until he had had his fling first, sowed a few wild oats, seen something of the world, and then settled down. Here was a good chance to find out. So with some relaxing of his gruffness, Mr. Bowser said: "All right, my boy. I've no objections so long as you're not too long-winded. Go ahead."
There were a dozen or more in each party. Their deportment was quiet and altogether unexceptionable, no rudeness, no gruffness, nothing of menace. Indeed, such demonstrations would not have been safe, as they were followed about by two policemen; but they really seem to take their distress as their own misfortune and God's will, and impute it to nobody as a fault.
Indeed he had begun to show a scarcely veiled hostility towards Dion in the summer holidays, and in the recent Easter holidays, spent by him in Pera, he had avoided Dion as much as possible. "That fellow still here!" he had said, with boyish gruffness, when his mother had first mentioned Dion's name immediately after his arrival.
His voice had lost some of its gruffness. "What were your father's ideas about slavery, Mr. Brice?" The young man thought a moment, as if seeking to be exact. "I suppose he would have put slavery among the necessary evils, sir," he said, at length. "But he never could bear to have the liberator mentioned in his presence. He was not at all in sympathy with Phillips, or Parker, or Summer.
"What do you gain by standing here in the cold and—" "Never mind what I gain. That's my affair," said George, his voice shaking in spite of its forced gruffness. Simmy was undaunted. "Have you been drinking to-night?" "None of your damned business. What do you mean by—" "I am your friend, George," broke in Simmy earnestly. "I can see now that you've had a drink or two, and you—"
"I wonder what you'll do," he said with a kind of gruffness, "when you find you've got to marry a pauper?" "I shan't have to marry a pauper," said Jenny. "That wouldn't do either." "Oh! you're counting on that eight hundred a year still, are you?" Jenny allowed a little coldness to appear on her face. Rude banter was all very well, but it mustn't go too far.
He had refused all help from the Princess, gruffly but firmly, although the gruffness may have been something less than his usual manner and intended for courtesy. Maritza stood with her hands behind her watching him, a smile upon her lips. "There's more table than breakfast, Captain," he said as Ellerey came down; "but it's as well to have things orderly.
The man looked at her and uttered the single word: "Fried." "Fried?" said she doubtfully. "Only fried," was the inexorable answer. "How many?" Le Mire turned to me, and I explained. Then she turned again to the surly host with a smile that must have caused him to regret his gruffness. "Well, then, fr-r-ied!" said she, rolling the "r" deliciously. "And you may bring me five, if you please."
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