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Keith had letters of business introduction to Palmer, Cook & Co., a banking firm powerful and respected at the time, but destined to become involved in scandal. The most pressing need, both he and Nan had determined, was a house of their own; the hotel was at once uncomfortable and expensive. Accordingly a callow, chipper, self-confident, blond little clerk was assigned to show them about.
He has asked me to form one of the new administration that he is about to create: the place offered to me is above my merits, nor suited to what I have yet done, though, perhaps, it be suited to what I may yet do. I make that qualification, for you know," added Ernest, with a proud smile, "that I am sanguine and self-confident." "You accept the proposal?" "Nay, should I not reject it?
It seems strange, because he was here, befriended by monarchs, and very strong and handsome and self-confident, hardly two hours ago. Is that his blood upon your sleeve?" "But of course not! I told you I was vexatiously detained, almost at your gates. Yes, I had the ill luck to blunder into a disgusting business. The two rapscallions tumbled out of a doorway under my horse's very nose, egad!
He paused at Saunders's desk and made a cheerful and oddly self-confident inquiry as to the disposition of a certain customer's account, surprising his partner by his altered manner. In his office, smoking a good cigar, he found a new interest in the letters and documents left there for his consideration. After all, life was a game. Even the early red men had their sport.
She smiled in a placid, self-confident way. "You mean that Madame d'Aranjuez is mentally deranged, and that you are her keeper? It is a little hard to believe, I confess." "Would you like to see my certificates, Signor Principe? Or the written directions of the doctors? I am sure you are discreet." "I have no right to see anything of the kind," answered Orsino coldly.
"That question," Radley retorted, "Adam probably asked Eve, when Cain and Abel decided to be Socialists." "I tell you, these self-opinionated boys want whipping, and so do you, Master Doe, with your damned Fabianism." "Oh, come, come," objected Radley. "I like them to be gloriously self-confident. Young blood is heady stuff.
The latter's skin was somewhat dark, and his coarse black hair and athletic figure hinted at a strain of Indian blood. As a matter of fact, his mother was a French-Canadian Metis, and he was born in a skin tent in the North. His clothes were cut in the latest fashion, and he looked self-confident; but he moved unsteadily and his face was flushed. "Had a gay time, Mr. Drummond?" Stormont asked.
In case of war, a particularly energetic and self-confident villager was chosen commander-in-chief, but the same people who had voluntarily given this man the right to be their leader, claimed an equal right to deprive him of his job, once the danger had been averted. But gradually the village had grown into a city. Some people had worked hard and others had been lazy.
In this he ferried himself out to the Tortoise. Priscilla bounded into Brannigan's shop. The sea dogs on the window sills eyed Frank and shook their heads. It was painfully evident that his self-confident tone had not imposed on them. "There's not much wind any way," said one of them, "and what there is will be dropping with the ebb." "It'll work round to the west with the flood," said another.
A conceited man, or at least a man whose soul was infested with the meanest kind of conceit that of imagining that the woman who gives him a friendly word or smile is disposed to throw herself into his arms would no doubt have surmised her secret before; but although Van Berg was intensely proud, as we have seen, and had been rendered self-complacent and self-confident by the circumstances of his lot, he had none of this contemptible vanity.
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