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As yet, Charley had been asked no direct questions, for the people of Chaudiere had the consideration of their temperament; but the Notary's wife was half English, and being a figure in the place, she took to herself more privileges than did old Madame Dugal, the Cure's sister. To her ill-disguised impertinence in English, as bad as her French and as fluent, Charley listened with quiet interest.
Later, this circumstance served as proof to the charitable suppositions of jealousy. Madame Servin soon went away, and the session ended without further events; Ginevra allowed her companions to depart, and seemed to intend to work later. But, unconsciously to herself, she betrayed her desire to be left alone by impatient glances, ill-disguised, at the pupils who were slow in leaving.
I have heard educated men speak with an ill-disguised contempt of the studies of the naturalist, and ask, not without a shrug, "What is the use of knowing all about these miserable animals what bearing has it on human life?" I will endeavour to answer that question.
His spirit recoiled from that gross familiarity that is the characteristic of modern manners, and which would destroy all forms and ceremonies merely because they curb and control their own coarse convenience and ill-disguised selfishness. To women, however, Coningsby instinctively bowed, as to beings set apart for reverence and delicate treatment.
Roland went on, unheeding: "I ask you, my Lord of Cologne, to march your troops to Assmannshausen." "You indeed babble like the boy you said you were!" cried the indignant Cologne. "You show no grasp of statesmanship." A faint smile quivered on the thin lips of Mayence at his colleagues' ill-disguised fear at leaving him the man in possession so far as Frankfort was concerned.
"'I have no interest in anything, I replied, 'so I cannot be inquisitive; but, if I chose, I could know all your secrets by to-morrow. "'I defy you! she exclaimed, with ill-disguised uneasiness. "'Seriously? "'Certainly, said she, tossing her head. 'If such a crime is possible, I ought to know it.
He had keenly felt the reproach, the taunt, and the open or ill-disguised satisfaction reflected by a large number of the public men of Europe that we were no longer and could never again be "the United States of America."
As I saw this noble woman bending gracefully before the social mendicant, the white billows of her beauty heaving under the foam of the traitorous laces that half revealed them, I should have wept with sympathetic emotion, but that tears, except as a private demonstration, are an ill-disguised expression of self-consciousness and vanity, which is inadmissible in good society.
Lady Poynter was retailing the secret history of the latest political crisis and the fall of the Coalition Government. His wheezing, well-fed host was attacking the Board of Trade with ill-disguised venom. "They've cut down imports to such an extent," he was saying, "that in six months' time you won't be able to get a cigar fit to smoke.
All these acquaintances he observed with difficulty concealing their mirth at something; the same mirth that he had perceived in the lawyer's eyes, and just now in the eyes of this groom. Everyone seemed, somehow, hugely delighted, as though they had just been at a wedding. When they met him, with ill-disguised enjoyment they inquired after his wife's health.
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