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Of course, she did not say she was fond of animals as PETS, because she had the sense to see that Toad would be extremely offended. When she said good night, having filled his water-jug and shaken up his straw for him, Toad was very much the same sanguine, self-satisfied animal that he had been of old.
With her rosy cheeks, silver-rimmed spectacles, self-satisfied smile, and big puffy sleeves, she looked as if she might have stepped out of one of the old frames lining the walls. "What do ye think of me, Miss Jane? I'm proud as a peacock that I am!" she cried, twisting herself about. "Do ye know, I never thought that skinny dressmaker could do half as well.
No sooner had Adams scented the first whiff of the quarrel-laden atmosphere of the embassy than he expressed in his usual self-satisfied, impetuous, and defiant way his purpose to be rigidly impartial. But he was a natural fault-finder, and by no means a natural peacemaker; and his impartiality had no effect in assuaging the animosities which he found.
It showed what no one but Clementina had ever seen, and she herself only at rare intervals, the laughing eyes and soul of a self-satisfied, material-minded, ordinary country-girl! But Mr.
On the Eastern institutions save, possibly, Brown he made no impression. Each of them was as stagnant as a Spanish convent, and as self-satisfied as a Bourbon duchy; but in the West he attracted supporters, and soon his ideas began to show themselves effective in the State university over which he had been called to preside.
"I think you can trust me to do that," said Brown, with a self-satisfied air. "I shall leave that part of the matter entirely in your hands," replied Benham. "It is better not to duplicate or mix matters, and if any newspaper man comes to see me I will refer him to you. I will say I know nothing of the case whatever." "Very well," answered Brown.
He was stout and flabby in face, with a smug, self-satisfied air I did not like. Leaning against a paddock rail, he looked me over while I told him what had brought me there. Then he said, with no trace of Western accent, which, it afterward appeared, he affected to despise: "You should not have borrowed that horse, because if we come to terms I shall have to feed him a day or two.
Guido asked of Vittoria; and whenever Guido spoke to a woman, he spoke as if all the pleasures and destinies of the world depended upon that one woman's interest and caprice. Madonna Vittoria smiled, self-satisfied, as all women smiled when Guido so addressed them.
Every limb suddenly collapsed, and she stood drooping in soft self-satisfied fatigue, awaiting the burst of applause which rang through Philammon's ears, proclaiming to heaven and earth, as with a mighty trumpet-blast, his sister's shame. The elephant rose, and moved forward to the side of the slabs.
I have since been authorized to promise you that you shall enter the German service as commissioned officers, and that you shall all three be in line for promotion as merit earns it. So, then, it is all settled, is it not!" Herr Professor Radberg rubbed his hands with a self-satisfied air. "Yes," Lieutenant Jack admitted, "it is all settled.
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