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So elevated was her mien that she overpowered him; for the instant his self-assurance fled, and he felt himself but a man of the people. He felt also the humiliation of the contrast, and was angry. Long afterward he confessed that she was mistress of the conversation, adding that she stood with her head thrown back like Mlle.
Bristow put up his hand, demanding attention. When Braceway ignored the gesture, he leaned back, smiling, derisive. "Morley's embezzlement and its consequences gave me a happy excuse for keeping on this fellow's trail while he was busy perfecting the machinery for Perry's destruction. The man's self-assurance, his conceit " "I've had enough of this!"
For a second or two he was aware of an odd suspicion, but he brushed it away as absurd, in view of the self-assurance with which Guion roused himself at last to enter into the conversation, which began immediately to turn on persons of whom Davenant had no knowledge. The inability to follow closely gave him time to make a few superficial observations regarding his host.
"What?" yelled Mike, wondering if the child had gone crazy. "Oh, I forgot! I haven't told you yet, have I? You can sell my melons in the city for me if you like and save me the trouble." The boy stared at her, transfixed by her complacent self-assurance. "Has the cat got your tongue?" Peace asked, when he did not speak. "No, but you have your nerve," he stuttered.
Three days in and three out, you know, bar accidents, and a day's spell at the Katherine," he explained glibly. But the "chaps at the Katherine" proved too entertaining for Johnny, and a fortnight passed before we saw him again. The Quiet Stockman was a Scotchman, and, like many Scotchmen, a strange contradiction of shy reserve and quiet, dignified self-assurance.
Yet if conceit, if self-assurance, if the want of the larger charity which helps us to understand another's faults, are sins, then Adam sinned long before he left Milton's Paradise. In fact, Adam is often a bore, and at times he proves himself no gentleman in the highest and best meaning of the word.
He mounted the steps with the same absolute self-assurance that yet held nought of arrogance. His face remained in shadow, but she did not need to see it. The reason of his coming was proclaimed in every line, in every calm, unwavering movement. He came to her, and she waited there in the merciless moonlight; for she had no choice. "I have come for you," he said.
It is they who gibber and chatter thus at dawn, leaving me with no more self-assurance than a man on ticket-of-leave. But as the sun comes up, behold the spirits evaporate, the films pass away from my eyes, and I am lighter, blither, happier, stronger. Then in my heart birds begin to sing in chorus. I am myself once more.
"I thought of it, but I didn't want to make so much of the matter. And then there'd have been a scene with father. Of course, anybody may send flowers to anybody. I might throw them away, but I haven't the heart to treat flowers badly. They can't help it." "Does Mr. Bagley improve on acquaintance?" "I never met such a combination of crudeness and self-assurance.
She lost her bright, cheery air of self-assurance and grew shy and fearful of reproach, avoiding her schoolmates more than they avoided her. Instead of being content in her new home, as she had hoped to be, the girl found herself more miserable and discontented than at any other period of her life.
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