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"Well, sir," said I, "I was grinding corn at the mill when the man came. I thought him a smooth-mannered person, and he did not give his business. He was just for wheedling me. 'And was this McChesney's mill? said he. 'Ay, said I. 'Thomas McChesney? 'Ay, said I. Then he was all for praise of Thomas McChesney. 'Where is he? said he.
A willing native guides me to a hotel where a smooth-mannered Parsee Boniface accommodates Sahibs with supper, charpoy, and chota-hazari for the small sum of Rs4; punkah-wallahs, pahnee-wallahs, sweepers, etc., extra.
"Damn Gorham!" he muttered; "damn all these smooth-mannered men who never lose their tempers; damn everybody!" "Come in, Stephen, come in; I'm glad to see you," Gorham greeted him as he puffed into the apartment, almost exhausted by the double strain of losing his self-control and his strenuous efforts to regain it. "I didn't realize it was so warm outside.
"I wonder when your brother will expect to start," he began, uneasily. "Perhaps I ought to go and get ready." "Ah, here comes his man," remarked the sister. A round-faced, smooth-mannered youngster whom Thorpe discovered to be wearing cord-breeches and leather leggings as he descended the stairs advanced toward him and prefaced his message by the invariable salutation.
He loved her with the fierce love of the primitive man; his rising wrath against the circumstances amidst which he seemed to be so powerless had made him sullen and suspicious; mountain life, continual defiance of the law, unceasing watchfulness for "revenuers," does not teach a man to be smooth-mannered, half-way in his methods.
"Well, sir," said I, "I was grinding corn at the mill when the man came. I thought him a smooth-mannered person, and he did not give his business. He was just for wheedling me. 'And was this McChesney's mill? said he. 'Ay, said I. 'Thomas McChesney? 'Ay, said I. Then he was all for praise of Thomas McChesney. 'Where is he? said he.
Possibly most of these were what we would call the worst elements; and by that we would mean not only the roughnecks of the police or sheriff's offices, but also the punctilious, smooth-mannered Southerners who practically monopolized the political offices.
But he is become a cosa di Venezia, and you cannot pass his palace without having it pointed out to you by the gondoliers. Early after my arrival in the city I made the acquaintance of an old smooth-shaven, smooth-mannered Venetian, who said he had known Byron, and who told me that he once swam with him from the Port of San Nicolo to his palace-door.
Joicey in the afternoons." "May I send in my card?" asked Coryndon. "Certainly, if you wish to do so." Coryndon took a pencil out of his pocket, and, scribbling on the corner of his card, enclosed it in an envelope, and waited in the dark hall, where electric fans flew round like huge bats, the smooth-mannered young man keeping him courteous company. "Mr.
Smooth-mannered and astute men of business who knew how to make a man talk were given diffuse and loud-voiced explanations of his methods and long-acknowledged merits and characteristics. His life, his morals, and his training, or rather lack ot it, were laid before them as examples of what a man might work himself up to if "he had it in him." Education didn't do it.
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