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She felt emboldened to remark, with an air of ease: "Oh, Saunders, don't forget to lay the spoons when you serve the demi-tasses." Mr. Brown laughed. "Oh, say!" he chortled, "you ARE funny when you hand out that highfalutin stuff!" No; he surely hadn't meant admiration for her savoir-faire; yet, for some reason, Missy didn't feel disappointed.

He moved among them with a savoir-faire which was new to Crowheart, talking easily and with flattering deference to this neglected lady and that, agreeable to a point which left them animated and coquettish. He danced with Mrs. Terriberry, he escorted Mrs. Tutts to the punch bowl, he threw Mrs.

Without lifting his head, he said, 'If you don't like Sholto to be so long absent from you, Edith, I hope you will let me go down to Milton, and give what assistance I can. 'Oh, thank you, said Edith, 'I dare say old Mr. Bell will do everything he can, and more help may not be needed. Only one does not look for much savoir-faire from a resident Fellow.

Brighton-Pomfrey had the savoir-faire of a successful consultant; he prided himself on being all things to all men; but just for an instant he was at a loss what sort of thing he had to be here. Then he adopted the genial, kindly, but by no means lavishly generous tone advisable in the case of a man who has suffered considerable social deterioration without being very seriously to blame. Dr.

There they were fortunate enough to find John Finnigan. Leaving Molly holding Black Bess's reins, Nora went into the house. It was a very small and shabby house, furnished in Irish style, and presided over by Mrs. Finnigan, a very stout, untidy, and typical Irishwoman, with all the good nature and savoir-faire of her countrywomen. "Aw, then, Miss Nora," she said, "I am glad to see you.

'Such cultivation, such charm, such savoir-faire! Where on earth did you pick up such a treasure? What are her antecedents? etc., etc. So then, of course " "I hope no more than were absolutely necessary!" said Sir Wilfrid, hastily. "I had to do it well," said Lady Henry, with decision; "I can't say I didn't. That state of things lasted, more or less, about a year and a half.

"I was not aware of it," answered Arthur, whose innate gentlemanliness told him that this should be held sacred ground. The General shifted his position. "He was a first-rate soldier," he said warmly. It was obvious to both that they were not getting on. Something seemed to hold them both back, paralysing the savoir-faire which both had acquired in their intercourse with the world.

"No," he answered, "I was not. I affected scales of the very opaquest description, like the rest of my kind." In the meantime this man's son was going about his business with a leisurely savoir-faire which few could rival. Jack Meredith was the beau-ideal of the society man in the best acceptation of the word.

He had brought good letters, and was admitted to that inner Creole circle which few strangers see, and in which he found among the elders, as he said to Miss Noel, "the atmosphere of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, a dignity like that of the period to which the Aglonbys belonged, with more grace and savoir-faire.

He has just fleeced a party of travelers, and he discovers, in a savory conversation with an old cheat, who has found him out, that his soul is being consumed with insatiable desires. And as the old sharper admires the "savoir-faire" of his young friend, the latter observes, not without scorn, that they belong to two very different categories of sharpers.