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"I always knew that," returned he, reaching self-satisfiedly for the toast-rack. "Well, I'm sure your glass never told you so!" was the withering retort. Mr. Crane did not lift his neck so high after that. The grin that went round the table was too crushingly unanimous. Mrs. Blodgett was helped in her duties by her niece, Miss Maria, and by her sister, Miss Williams.
His "unco' guidness," as Lady Elspeth would have said, bordered on ostentation. The sight and sound of him aroused in some people a wild inclination towards unaccustomed profanity and wallowing in the mire. He was so undisguisedly and self-satisfiedly better than his fellows that one felt his long and flawless life almost in the nature of a rebuke if not an affront.
Hawkes smiled benignly on the unfortunate family and rubbed his hands together self-satisfiedly: "Now I would like to send for the young lady, the heiress." "Where is she?" asked Mrs. Chichester. "She arrived from New York this morning and I brought her straight here. I had to call on a client, so I gave her your address and told her to come here and wait."
The gaunt house-fronts obtruded themselves so obstinately, so self-satisfiedly, like anemic country parsons, with their eyes close together, giving me a mean, soulless stare. Every object testified to its lack of any temperamental share in the joy of living. The emptiness of the streets seemed pitiless; their narrowness was oppressive." "I love every inch of it," said Julia, defiantly.
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