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The protruding upper lip of his long, thin mouth gave him an oafish expression, which was increased by his habit of carrying his head craned forward. His nature was precisely what you would have expected from his appearance dull and gross. He was chiefly distinguished among men of birth for general obscenity of speech and morphological inventiveness in blasphemy.
Sometimes, indeed, he stared at him broadly, and with a stupid, oafish look, and again placed himself in such a position behind the range of flower-pots which were placed upon the ledges, that he could observe him without being perceived himself. The force of habit, however, is extraordinary.
Alce usually went to his parish church at Old Romney, but had accepted Ellen's invitation to accompany the Goddens that day, and now Ellen seemed anxious that he should not walk with her and Joanna, but had taken him on ahead, leaving Joanna to walk with the Southlands. The elder sister watched them Alce a little oafish in his Sunday blacks, Ellen wearing her new spring hat with the daisies.
Her father and oafish brother loved the makeshifts of the wagon life, with its chance shots at fleeing antelope, scurrying sage-hens, and bounding cotton-tails; a chance parley with a stray Indian but added zest to the game of chance. But Sally hated it all. The cabin on Elder Creek had a tight roof; Warren Rodney had money in the bank. He had had uncommon luck at trapping.
The Duke himself was still at Marly, with most of his people, but at Bellegarde momentarily they looked for his return. Meanwhile de Soyecourt, an exquisite and sociable and immoral young gentleman of forty-one, was lonely, and protested that any civilized company was, in the oafish provinces, a charity of celestial pre-arrangement. He would not hear of Mr.
He was blaming himself bitterly now for his oafish clumsiness in blurting out the news so abruptly. And yet, curiously, in his remorse there was something of elation. Never before had he felt so near to her. It was as though a barrier that had been between them had fallen. Something moved... It was Sally's hand, slowly relaxing.
The moment she discerns this sentimentality bubbling within him that is, the moment his oafish smirks and eye rollings signify that he has achieved the intellectual disaster that is called falling in love he is hers to do with as she will. Save for acts of God, he is forthwith as good as married. The Feminine Attitude This sentimentality in marriage is seldom, if ever, observed in women.
Fortunate youth to possess a Croesus for a father:" "Yes; I suppose the governor must be tremendously oafish," said Stafford. "The man who can build such a palace as that, and have the cool cheek to call it 'a little place, must in common decency be a multi-millionaire."
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