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The little Arcadian kingdom cheerful, self-contained, and picturesque of the Buckleys, the Brentwoods, and their historian, Geoffry Hamlyn, of the Mayfords, Tom Troubridge, Mary Hawker, and the rest, far from illustrates all the intermittent successes and hardships which have commonly attended squatting in Australia. The toil, loneliness, and monotony of the occupation are scarcely mentioned.
I ain't never come across no man any better than Felix O'Day since I lived here, and that's no lie." There were others, too, who refused to believe any good of the self-contained, reticent stranger. The nephew of somebody's brother-in-law, who lived in Lexington Avenue, was one.
"Even if they are generals in the great fight with disease and death," said Frank gravely. "I wish I could feel as sure of our ultimate success as I do of your being perfectly calm and self-contained in all you do." "I should be, my dear boy," said the doctor, "if I could only get rid of the feeling that I shall be an impostor." Frank laughed pleasantly.
Ulysses became furious before this haughtiness, but his wrath was cold and self-contained on seeing the enemy deprived of defense. He advanced toward the prisoner, like one of the many who were insulting him, shaking his fist at him. His glance sustained that of the German and he spoke to him in Spanish with a dull voice.
"Davie did not come with you?" she said when Brett was seated near to her in an alcove formed by an oriel window. "No. He is with Miss Layton." "Ah, I am not sorry, I prefer to talk with you alone." "It is perhaps better. Your cousin is impulsive in some respects, though self-contained enough in others." "It may be so.
He was paler than usual, and there was a look of indecision in his face, very unlike its habitual expression, which was serene and self-contained. Looking up all at once, he met her eyes fixed on him frankly and affectionately, but he did not respond to her smile. "How do you suppose all this is going to end?" he said, abruptly. "Won't it do?" she answered, thinking of her paper.
Of course I gave them as good as they sent," she went on, with a little laugh, but Brice could see that her sensitive lip in profile had the tremulous and resentful curve of one who was accustomed to slight and annoyance. Was it possible that this reckless, self-contained girl felt her position keenly?
Shelby had carried the precinct, and with it the election by something less than two hundred votes. Giddy with the reaction, the Hon. Seneca Bowers gulped glass after glass of champagne, toasting Confusion to Fusion like the veriest roisterer. "And we abused the Poles," he said in self-reproach. "Ross, it was the Poles who saved the day." Shelby was the one self-contained being in the room.
Quiet and self-contained and little given to impulse as he was, Seabrooke, when roused to anger or resentment, was a very lion in his wrath, and there was one thing which he could never tolerate or overlook, and that was any attempt to take an unfair advantage of him.
She was quite as different as was the new piano with its deep tones from the rattling old instrument that jingled and clanged out of tune, or as the cool, self-contained, handsome young man in faultless attire was from the slim, uppish boy who used to strum on it. It was a very pretty and blushing young country maiden who now entered quite accidentally the parlor where sat Mr.
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