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The expression Robinette had noticed passed from the high-coloured face and left it as before, self-complacent and slightly patronizing. "You seem to feel cold," she said. "I never do; which is rather unfortunate, as I'm just going out to India!" "Indeed? How soon are you going?" "In about six weeks. I'm just going to be married, and we sail directly afterwards," said Miss Meredith. "You saw Mr.
Beaumont drew Amelia's arm within hers, and, dictating kindest messages for the Walsinghams, led her out of the loom. Having thus successfully covered her daughter's retreat, our skilful manoeuvrer returned, all self-complacent, to the company. And next, to please the warm-hearted Mr.
As I extended my wanderings in the valley and grew more familiar with the habits of its inmates, I was fain to confess that, despite the disadvantages of his condition, the Polynesian savage, surrounded by all the luxurious provisions of nature, enjoyed an infinitely happier, though certainly a less intellectual existence than the self-complacent European.
But the telegram read hastily in the hall, and considered at leisure while I took a late breakfast at my favorite table in the long, stately, oak-panelled dining-room, high above the diminished roar of Fifth Avenue the telegram carried me out to Eastridge, that self-complacent overgrown village among the New York hills, where people still lived in villas with rubber-plants in the front windows, and had dinner in the middle of the day, and attended church sociables, and listened to Fourth-of-July orations.
"Of course not," said Ruth heartily. "Susan'll understand." "I wouldn't for the world do anything to hurt her feelings," continued Lottie with the self-complacent righteousness of a deacon telling the congregation how good "grace" has made him. Her prominent commonplace brown eyes were gazing up the walk, an expression distressingly like envious anger in them.
And then I suppose I got above myself as poor Nannie used to say and came to care for the rushing about just for its own sake" "My dance, I believe, Miss Verity." The speaker, Mr. Alban Titherage well-groomed, rosy and self-complacent pulled down the fronts of his white waistcoat.
It lacks the self-complacent unreasonableness of Board of Works classicism. There's something in its proportions as though someone with brains had taken a lot of care to get it quite right, someone who not only knew what metal can do, but what a University ought to be, somebody who had found the Gothic spirit enchanted, petrified, in a cathedral, and had set it free."
Further war in the field I do not deem among the possibilities. Be the leaders never so bloodthirsty, the common people have had enough of fighting. The bastard Unionism of North Carolina, the haughty and self-complacent State pride of South Carolina, the arrogant dogmatism and insolent assumption of Georgia, how shall we build nationality on such foundations?
Of course it is garrulous, egoistical, self-complacent in a way.
'A far better majority than the present Government have, said Mr. Tadpole. 'There is nothing like a good small majority, said Mr. Taper, 'and a good registration. 'Ay! register, register, register! said the Duke. 'Those were immortal words. 'I can tell your Grace three far better ones, said Mr. Tadpole, with a self-complacent air. 'Object, object, object!
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