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Jeff laughed, with a shake of the head, and Whitwell continued, "Why, it was like this," and he possessed the ladies of a fact which they professed to find extremely interesting. At the end of their polite expressions he asked Jeff again: "What did you say the name was?" "Aquitaine," said Jeff, briefly. "Why, we came on the Aquitaine!" said Mrs. Vostrand, with a smile for Jeff.
There he was shown into the office where he found a great many very polite and very clean officials in the midst of a magnificent apartment. Maslova's petition was received and handed on to that Wolf, to whom Nekhludoff had a letter from his uncle, to be examined and reported on.
When a person is SO good and SO smart and SO polite maybe the average sinful common mortal like me gets jealous; I don't know. But I do know that, to save my life, I couldn't swallow him whole the way Ardelia and Father did. I wanted to look him over first; and the more I looked him over, and the smoother and smoother he looked, the more sure I felt he'd give us all dyspepsy before he got through.
'Very polite of you to say so Arthur cannot remember Mr Clennam until the word is out, such is the habit of times for ever fled, and so true it is that oft in the stilly night ere slumber's chain has bound people, fond memory brings the light of other days around people very polite but more polite than true I am afraid, for to go into the machinery business without so much as sending a line or a card to papa I don't say me though there was a time but that is past and stern reality has now my gracious never mind does not look like it you must confess.
Marshal Fain had no stomach for the business of lion hunting. It is said that Col. S. gave Marshal Fain a piece of his mind that was more explicit than polite. Col. Sumner ordered John Brown to give up his prisoners, and disband his men.
If you understand the law of concentration and demand, you can obtain an entrance to the people you wish to see, through the front hall and a properly engraved card. If that fails, a polite and frank note, stating your purpose and intimating your self-respecting ideas of your profession, may prove effective.
She looked up as though moved to say something. "As you have asked me a question, I will give you an answer. I know a way in which you can secure my good opinion." "Really!" said Kathleen, who was too angry now to be properly polite. "And what may that way be?" "Why, this: if you will tell the truth about your horrible society, and spare dear little Ruth Craven, and make Cassandra Weldon happy."
When I think of all the sufferings I have endured out of mere politeness though by no means accounted a polite person tears of grief and indignation spring to my eyes. Old John Rogers at the stake never suffered such martyrdom. But there is an end of it! The tchai of Moscow finished all this sort of thing so far, at least, as the male sex is concerned.
When he was sober he was polite to her, on occasions even tender; he seemed to show for short hours a trace of that old quality of understanding too well to blame that quality which was the best of him and had worked swiftly and ceaselessly toward his ruin. But he hated to be sober.
I should think that as polite and experienced a gentleman as Mr. Blunt might have shot the Arabs instead of my poultry!" "So it is," thought Eve, as she glanced into the pantry and proceeded. "What is considered happiness to-day gets to be misery to-morrow, and the rebukes of adversity are forgotten the instant prosperity resumes its influence.
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