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When he pushed the inner glass door open and lounged into the smoke- filled room, the waiter, cigarette in mouth, nodded in a friendly way without betraying surprise. One or two old habitues glanced at him, and returned to the perusal of La Libertad or El Imparcial without being greatly interested. The stranger had come the night before.
Here the general, who appeared to grow quite faint at the bare thought of reading anything which was neither mercantile nor political, and was not in a newspaper, inquired 'if any gentleman would drink some? Most of the company, considering this a very choice and seasonable idea, lounged out, one by one, to the bar-room in the next block.
In these reigned fashionable luxury, and in the anteroom lounged a man-servant. Timar asked him to fetch his master from the café, and meanwhile led Timéa to the ladies.
Yet it may reconcile those less gifted by nature and fortune to their mediocrity; to know that those singular advantages by no means constitute happiness, usefulness, moral dignity, or even public respect. Selwyn, as the French Abbé said, "had nothing to do, and he did it." His possession of fortune enabled him to be a lounger through life, and he lounged accordingly.
Lousteau offered him dinner, and Lucien accepted the offer. They lounged about the Luxembourg in the hope of meeting with a publisher; and, as it fell out, they met with one of the most famous printers of the day. Lousteau borrowed forty francs of him, and divided the money into four equal parts.
A second glance assured him that the savoury morsel was the head of an antelope in process of roasting. Two greasy black women, naked to the waist, were superintending this primitive cookery; all round, a group of unclad little imps, as black as their mothers, lounged idly about, with their eyes firmly fixed on the chance of dinner.
The men lounged in the shade of the trees and talked; Langford though he had no further excuse for staying remained, concealing his impatience over Allen's inaction by taking short rides, but always returning; Allen, taciturn, morose even, paid no attention to him.
Then the boy lounged away to the farther end of the room; and suddenly, with a bump, he was on the floor and in the promised fit. "Halloo!" cried Carshaw, while from both Winifred and Rachel came little cries of alarm for a fit has the same effect as a mouse on the nerves of women. "He's in a fit!" screamed the aunt.
A cruel desire to see him crumble entered her heart, and she knew that she should tell him the truth if he attacked her as she expected. But this one time Archie refrained from expressing himself. Even in his flustered state he recognized a peculiar danger signal in the stare of his passive wife. With a gesture of disgust he lounged out of the hall in the direction of his library.
Colonel Bishop stood in the waist, his great face blenched to the colour of clay, his mouth loose, almost afraid to look at the sturdy ruffians who lounged about the shot-rack on the main hatch. Blood shouted an order to the bo'sun, who was leaning against the forecastle bulkhead. "Throw me a rope with a running noose over the yardarm there, against the need of it.
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