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An off-handed and a free-handed chap that, Africa; but then these law-dealers get all their pence of the devil, and they are sure of more, when the shot begins to run low in the locker."
James was a most agreeable companion, Sir Gervaise, and, in divinity, he would not have turned his back on one of the apostles, I do verily believe!" The admiral bowed, and turning to the master, he invited him to be of the party at the Hall, in the manner which one long accustomed to render his civilities agreeable by a sort of professional off-handed way, well knew how to assume.
He was manly and natural, free and off-handed to the verge of eccentricity. Independence and marked character seemed to breathe from the little, rather bowed figure, crowned with a lion-like head and falling light hair, to glow in the keen, eager, blue eyes glancing on either side as he walked along.
"Well, Carrie, how did you like it?" he said as they went along. "Oh, it was all right," said Caroline in an off-handed fashion but she also had an elated consciousness of being important, and did not care a bit though her feet were stone-cold from sitting still in the sentry-box.
"Dusty Miller," the next file on his left, who was eating bread and cheese, spoke to him. "Why don't you eat some grab, Toffee?" he mumbled cheerfully, with his mouth full. "In a game like this you never know when you'll get the next chance of a bite." "Don't feel particularly hungry," answered Toffee with an attempt to appear as off-handed and casual and at ease as his questioner.
We all know Aunt Rebecca pretty well by this time. And looking back upon her rigorous treatment of Puddock, recorded in past chapters of this tale, I think I can now refer it all to its true source. She was queer, quarrelsome, and sometimes nearly intolerable; but she was generous and off-handed, and made a settlement, reserving only a life interest, and nearly all afterwards to Puddock.
With a caricatural gesture of disdain, and an off-handed air, this corpulent personage demanded stridently: "Who are these gentlemen?" Inspector Michel looked the outrageous creature up and down. "Who are you, Madame?... What are you doing here?" The inspector's tone was severity itself. Juve, behind his window-curtains, breathed a sigh of relief. "Ah, Michel has it in hand! That's all right!"
He was very well off but wanted to get richer, and so he speculated in a tin mine in Cornwall. I was acquainted with him at the time and used to respect him. He persuaded me I was always off-handed about money, and a careless, easy fellow he persuaded me to invest in it also. I did so, but at the end of a few years I found out that the tin mine was a rotten concern, and sold out.
His gallant, off-handed, confident manner, recognising no attempt at mutiny, operated upon the sailors like magic. They tumbled up, as commanded; and for the rest of that night contented themselves with privately fulminating their displeasure against the Captain, and publicly emblazoning every anchor-button on the coat of admired Mad jack.
As the other entered, the man in the chair gave vent to a guttural grunt without removing the mouthpiece of his pipe from between his lips; and Major Clutterbuck returned the greeting with an off-handed nod. His next proceeding was to take off his glossy hat and pack it away in a hat-box.
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