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"He waited patiently in the parlor while our young friend completed her toilet, and when at last she made her appearance, she saw before her a blushing and confused young man, who nevertheless was pleasant-mannered and fashionably dressed, and who besought with stammering lips that she would do him the favor of listening while he read his play.
They were all deeply attracted to the tall, stooping, gray-haired, pleasant-mannered gentleman who greeted them so cordially as if they were old and valued friends instead of such recent acquaintances. "I'm going to ask you to let me sit awhile on your front veranda," he said. "I want to get a last impression of this lovely spot to carry away with me to England.
"At the age of three I voyaged to America, returning hither when I was eleven." "I am vexed with Mademoiselle d'Aumale for wanting to rob us of so charming a treasure. She was a blonde, pleasant-mannered enough, but short of stature. Her head was too big for her body; and this head of hers was full of conspiracies and coups d'etat. She dethroned her husband in order to marry his brother.
His good-looking, pleasant-mannered wife, evidently of both Indian and negro blood, was with him, and was doing all she could do as a housekeeper, in the comfortless little cabin, with its primitive bareness of furniture and fittings. Here we saw Captain Amilcar, who had come back to hurry up his rear- guard.
As the lady of the house was waiting for them on the veranda, this was embarrassing, so Bertha smiled, and then the whole group moved on. So they kept on for the rest of the trip, King jollying Bertha whenever it was necessary, and the other girls making merriment for themselves. Marjorie and Elsie soon became friends, for they were alike merry-hearted and pleasant-mannered.
We see many of the chiefs and warriors going about with human jawbones hanging as ornaments round their necks, and we learn that they are those of enemies slain in war. Sick at heart I accompany my shipmates. "Friend Golding, what do you now say of these pleasant-mannered, happy islanders?" I ask. "I knock under," says he.
Moore has to cross the stream." "If I were you," Lord Rockminster finally said, in a confidential undertone, as they all rose from the table, "I would telegraph about dinner." How Lionel hated the sight of this open door, and the wagonette, and the portmanteau up beside the coachman! "Good-bye, Mr. Moore," said the pleasant-mannered young matron to him, as she took his hand for a moment.
I hastened to thank him for his invitation, which I accepted with pleasure, and I enjoyed this dinner better than Kettler's supper. The burgomaster was a fine-looking man, pleasant-mannered and intelligent, and a lover of peace and quietness.
Who knew how my Italian enterprise would be judged on territory protected by H. B. M.? But calling up my courage I was introduced into the presence of a young and pleasant-mannered gentleman who received me with much politeness.
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