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He got up with the same grin upon his features, not a grin of simplicity, but intimating knowingness. I should like to see this fellow when he was perfectly sober. There were a good many blacks among the crowd. I suppose they used to emigrate across the border, while New York was a slave State.
"You would not trust my bungling fingers to help excavate the gem, I know; but I may surely use my eyes admire, as we bid children do with my hands behind my back." Notwithstanding his boast of knowingness in the mysteries of feminine apparel, he could not have told of what material the divine robe was made except that it was some shiny white stuff, with wide embroidery upon the flounces.
Offendene remained a good background, if anything would happen there; but on the whole the neighborhood was in fault. Beyond the effect of her beauty on a first presentation, there was not much excitement to be got out of her earliest invitations, and she came home after little sallies of satire and knowingness, such as had offended Mrs.
"That ain't no answer," said the Bloater, with a knowing smile, the knowingness of which consisted chiefly in the corners of the mouth being turned down instead of up. This peculiarity, be it carefully observed, was natural to the Bloater, who scorned every species of affectation. Many of his young friends and admirers were wont to imitate this smile.
"What! and come through that crush, sir?" Anthony negatived the question decisively with a reference to his general knowingness. Algernon pressed him; saying at last, "Well, have you got one?" "I don't think I've been such a fool," said Anthony, feeling slowly about his person, and muttering as to the changes that might possibly have been produced in him by the Docks.
"And a pore man who wouldn't abuse a gal most white like that, but would respect her an' marry her, too, Levin, they makes laws agin him! Maybe I kin steal Roxy?" Here Jack whistled low, shut one eye with deep knowingness, and grinned behind his bell-crown. "Oh, you simpleton!" Levin said. "Where could you take her to?"
The woman was adroit in the engagement of domestics, and there were dinners certainly, and, possibly, good ones, but the knowingness of it all was wanting. He felt it, and wondered a little, but did not fret. He knew the woman.
He has perhaps like the stage villain a little too much of that cheap knowingness, which is the theatrical badge of the complete man of the world, but which gentlemen in actual life do not ordinarily affect.
The Oracle is humble enough before the hanger-on of the turf. A bookmaker roars "10 to 1 Bendemeer;" he suddenly fishes out a sovereign of his own and he hasn't money to spare, for all his knowingness and puts it on Bendemeer. His friends' money he puts on the favourite and Royal Scot as arranged. Then they all go round to watch the race.
The face of Foker looking up from his profound mourning that face, so piteous and puzzled, was one which the reader's imagination must depict for himself; also that of Master Frank Clavering, who, looking at the three interesting individuals with an expression of the utmost knowingness, had only time to ejaculate the words, "Here's a jolly go!" and to disappear sniggering.
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