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Those who did not cross him, those who were content to be his inferiors, found him amiable enough and, on occasion, generous.... "Shall we try another line, Mr. Waverton?" said Harry wearily. "I have a mind to make an epigram," Mr. Waverton announced. "The arrogance of the vulgar, the the uninstructed perhaps I lack the mot juste, but quand meme the mansuetude of the loftier mind.
Now alone with her, confident, moreover, of her maidenly doubts and pretty self-distrust, he felt at a decided disadvantage. The detached, affectionately friendly, the avuncular not to say grandfatherly attitude escaped him. He could not play that part. "Oh! you exaggerate difficulties," he therefore told her, with a singular absence of his habitual mansuetude, his tone trenching on impatience.
He was rubicund, and his little eyes looked me over with priestly mansuetude. I said it was warm indeed. I liked him instinctively. He lifted his eyes to the starry sky. "The orbs are shining excessively," he said; then added, "To the greater glory of God. One is never tired of contemplating this sublime spectacle." "How is Don Carlos, your reverence?" I asked.
Well pleased, he listened, then, "O mine of knowledge!" he did say, "Thy wit and wisdom overpass the bounds of likelihood!" "Not so," quoth I; "my wit indeed were little, but for thee, O prince of men, that pour'st on me thy wisdom like a flood! Thou seem'st indeed the lord of grace, bounty and excellence, World's treasure-house of knowledge, wit, sense and mansuetude!"
Before, however, all this blending of Semitic religiosity with Hellenic philosophical ideas, and with something of the old Hellenic mansuetude, which had survived even under Macedonian masters to modify Asiatic minds, could issue in Christianity, half the East, with its dispersed heirs of Alexander, had passed under the common and stronger yoke of Rome.
And Furthermore, that title to said Meal does not pass until the party of the second part has conveyed, of his mansuetude and proper charity, a gratuity, fee, honorarium, lagniappe, pourboire, easement or tip of not less than 15 per cent of the price of said Meal; which easement, while customarily spoken of as a free-will grant or gratuity, is to be constructively regarded as an entail and a necessary encumbrance upon said Meal.
He veneered his whole character with such an engaging mansuetude as served to deceive the most penetrative of those he met, and not even the most suspicious of his Ottawa acquaintances had ever insinuated that a surface so calm and unruffled as his could ever cover a phase of character which could be nocent or even objectionable in the least degree.
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