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She looked him over steadily as she spoke, and noted a certain air of calm self-assurance about him which struck her with a vague uneasiness. He was too easy, too quiet, too entirely businesslike to be free from danger. And the bow which he gave her was, to her thinking, the height of false artifice. "I wished to see you and to speak to you, with your permission," he answered.
But Miss Cronin did not think that was sufficient to account for the change in the girl. She had something on her mind besides that. Miss Cronin was certain of it. Beryl's cool self-assurance was gone. She was restless. She brooded. She seemed quite unable to settle to anything or to come to any decision. Old Fanny began to be seriously alarmed. Mrs. Clem Hodson had gone back to Philadelphia.
Abbey, forty-odd and looking thirty-five, with that calm self-assurance which wealth and position confer upon those who hold it securely. Stella found them altogether to her liking. It pleased her, too, that Jack happened in to meet them. He was not a scintillating talker, yet she had noticed that when he had anything to say, he never failed to attract and hold attention.
The time was favourable for the adventurer whose advance was delayed by no scruples of conscience, and no deficiency of self-assurance; and Downing increased his importance by a marriage with the sister of Howard, first Earl of Carlisle.
She was also relieved to note that, although the young man flung himself about in the public conveyance with the same unceremonious self-assurance that he would have shown in a lady's drawing-room, Eleanor Hubert, at the other end of the car, was apparently unaware of his presence.
As he carried on his work among very young people, his boundless self-assurance led them to believe him very profound and wise; the majority did submit to him, and he had a great success in revolutionary circles. His activity was directed to the preparation of a rising in which he was to usurp the power and call together a council.
She twisted her brows anxiously. "You've had a nervous breakdown." "A what?" "A nervous breakdown." He lit his cigarette and watched her in his usual lazy, smoke-veiled manner, but she might have noticed the shaken fabric of his self-assurance. "Say, now," said Joan, "what's that the name for?" "There's a book about it over there third volume on the top shelf look up your case."
I beat in vain against the solid walls of obstinate prejudice and superficiality. His statements were uttered with dogmatic emphasis. They expressed beliefs held with all the self-assurance born of ignorance.
Failing Rose, there were two more prospective brides at Home twins; and Hayes was fatally endowed with all the surface symptoms of the 'coming man': the supple alertness and self-assurance; the instinct for the right thing; and supreme asset in these days a studious detachment from the people and the country.
The lion himself could not frighten you here." Again she yielded to him. There was a suspicion of raillery in his voice that strangely reassured her. The grasp of his hand was very close. "We are in the maze," she said at last, breaking her silence. "Are you sure of the way?" He answered her instantly with complete self-assurance. "Like the heart of a woman, it's hard, that it is, to find.
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