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Updated: June 9, 2025
And there was the policeman, twenty yards away, coming along with the leisureliness of one who knows that he has a certain area to patrol. He pulled himself to an attitude of watchful attention as Viner ran up to him; then suddenly recognizing Viner as a well-known inhabitant of the Square, touched the rim of his helmet.
She turned, looked, sprang to her feet. The vivid colour rushed up over her face. "You!" she gasped, almost inarticulately. He had come by the night train after all. He came up to her quite quietly, with that leisureliness of gait that she remembered so well. "Didn't you expect me?" he said. She held out a hand that trembled.
Difficulties are not without a certain advantage. They keep one on the alert." "Your father," said the girl. "Sir John he will object." Jack Meredith reflected for a moment, lazily, with that leisureliness which gave a sense of repose to his presence. "Possibly," he admitted gravely. "He dislikes me," said the girl. "He is one of my failures." "I did not know you had any. Have you tried?
Could not one address himself to the question of those students in some such way as this? You say that science has disclosed to us the leisureliness of the evolving universe.
In a strange abstraction, in which every movement seemed to be slowed down into unbelievable leisureliness, I saw the butt of the pistol begin to approach my eye near nearer. Then suddenly I heard a woman scream, and a shot ring out. Instead of the pistol butt the gipsy's brains splashed on my face, and the man collapsed on top of me.
"Maybe they're all right," said Donahue thoughtfully. "If it's just a flirtation, why anyway, watch 'em this evening. The day watch listened in and says they've made some date for to-night." He was off down the hall again with his light, quick step that still had the appearance of leisureliness. The telephone at Sadie's right buzzed warningly.
"Well, anyway, I've seen that," breathed Emma McChesney thankfully. Next morning, she packed her three samples, as before, her heart heavy, her mind on Fat Ed Meyers coming up two weeks behind her. Three days in Rio! And already she had bumped her impatient, quick-thinking, quick-acting North American business head up against the stone wall of South American leisureliness and prejudice.
But while his conscience was consoling Junius to the best of its ability, and in a decidedly-unsatisfactory way, if the truth must be told, far away, amid the thunder and patter of jubilation, in the golden dust of the all-conquering sun, gleaming with purple, darkling with laurel athwart the undulating streams of abundant incense, with majestic leisureliness, like an emperor marching to his empire, the proudly-erect figure of Julius moved forward with easy grace ... and long branches of the palm-tree bent in turn before him, as though expressing by their quiet rising, their submissive obeisance, that incessantly-renewed adoration which filled to overflowing the hearts of his fellow-citizens whom he had enchanted!
Bird, Bird and Co. had paid for them, and he was not averse to accepting a little luxury from the firm. The economical Isaac had cut down the commissariat on the Parakeet till a man had to be half-starved before he could stomach a meal. The salvage steamer had a South of Europe leisureliness in her movements.
Vansittart at the station on the arrival of the train. "The moon is rising now, my lady a half-moon," said the porter approaching with that leisureliness which characterizes railway porters between trains. "Why does your stupid train not come?" asked Mrs. Vansittart, with unreasoning anger. "It has been signalled, my lady; a few minutes now." Mrs.
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