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He had put on a soft white shirt, a black tie, and a black coat and trousers, the last of these a little shiny perhaps in places, but neat and well brushed, and you would really not guess when you saw him, that he only possessed two suits in the wide world. "I think you're absorbing," Peter said, a little patronisingly perhaps. "Ah, that proves nothing," the Signer retorted.
Tabaret's submission tickled his pretensions as a detective immensely; for in reality he thought the old man very clever. He was softened. "I suppose," he said patronisingly, "you refer to the La Jonchere affair?" "Alas! yes, my dear M. Gevrol, I wished to work without you, and I have got myself into a pretty mess."
There bustled past her an obvious millionaire or, more probably, a greater monarch of finance who looked down upon mere millionaires and out of the goodness of his heart tried to check a tendency to speak patronisingly to them. He was concealed to the eyebrows in a fur coat, and, reaching the sidewalk, was instantly absorbed in a large limousine. Two expensive-looking ladies followed him.
"Tell me about it!" exclaimed Ruth, eagerly. "Little girls mustn't ask questions," he remarked, patronisingly, and in his most irritating manner. "Besides, I don't know. If the 'Widder' knows, she won't tell, so it's fair to suppose she doesn't. Your relation does queer things in the attic, and every Spring, she has an annual weep.
They all talked patronisingly of Smithson, and seemed to think it rather a wonderful fact that he did not drop his aspirates or eat peas with a knife. 'A man of stirling metal, said the gossips, 'who can hold his own with many a fellow born in the purple.
That Mrs Major was only talking to me patronisingly, and half-laughing at me. I can see it now. Oh! here's Smithers." Captain Smithers came up, looking rather careworn and sad, and nodded in a friendly way at his junior. "Well, Long," he said, "so we are commanders-in-chief just now. At least, I am. You'll have to be my colonel, major, and adjutant, all in one."
Whatever may have been the case with the school, Templeton seems quite unable to perform under the eyes of the great "M.C.C." man, and wicket after wicket falls in rapid succession, until with the miserable total of fifty-one they finally retire for this innings. "A follow-on," says Game, who from near the tent is patronisingly looking on, in company with Ashley, Tipper, and Wibberly.
"But how is it that in the name of religion the very first demands of righteousness are violated families are separated?" Toporoff continued to smile patronisingly, evidently thinking what Nekhludoff said very pretty. Anything that Nekhludoff could say he would have considered very pretty and very one-sided, from the height of what he considered his far-reaching office in the State.
Rollo saw something of her reasons, and said patronisingly, "Why, you talk like an island woman now. You might almost have lived here, by the way you understand things." Yet better did he apprehend her promises of vast rewards, if he would do exactly as she wished.
"You are not at all ambitious," he remarked; then added patronisingly, "A little of that kind of thing will do you no harm, of course; but, my dear child, your head wouldn't contain a book, and if you were just a little cleverer you would know that yourself." Beth bit the end of her pencil and looked at him dispassionately, and it was at this moment that Sir George Galbraith was announced.
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