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With a mighty sidewise bound he attempted to leave his rider, but Mose, studiedly imperturbable, with left hand holding the reins and right hand grasping the pommel, went with him as if that were the ordinary way of mounting. Immense power was in the stiff-legged leaping of the beast. His body seemed a ball of coiled steel springs. His "watch-eye" rolled in frenzy.
Have you ever met a woman, Mr. Lane? Have you ever even fancied that you were in love?" Eric took a cigarette and lighted one for Barbara. "I thought I knew a lot about life when I was twenty-two," he said, studiedly reflective. "I'd just come down from Oxford." Her attention seemed to have wandered to her cigarette, for she drew hard at it and then asked for another match.
"Pity you never turned the east room into a bathroom," he said to his father. "You talked about it for years. We need another one." It was an old controversy and part of Eric's persistent but fruitless campaign against the studiedly Spartan attitude of Lashmar Mill-House. "It's rather an unnecessary expense. And we seem to struggle on without it," said Sir Francis.
Always studiedly well-dressed, too correct in every way, copying his way of speaking, his hats and his trousers from the three or four snobs who set the fashion, reproducing other people's witticisms, learning anecdotes and jokes by heart, like a lesson, to use them again at small parties, constantly laughing, without knowing why his friends burst into roars of merriment, and was in the habit of keeping pretty girls for the pleasure of his best friends.
A general glance at the picture could never suggest that there was a hair trunk in it; the Hair Trunk is not mentioned in the title even which is, "Pope Alexander III. and the Doge Ziani, the Conqueror of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa"; you see, the title is actually utilized to help divert attention from the Trunk; thus, as I say, nothing suggests the presence of the Trunk, by any hint, yet everything studiedly leads up to it, step by step.
The preacher was in full flow turgid, studiedly ornate, egotistical, and bombastic, but the final effect, even upon Weissmann, was that of one deluded, rather than of one carrying on a deep and far-reaching system of deception.
Then, with studied carelessness, she said: "Yes, and you know Mr. Arkwright, too. She told of him." "Yes? Well, what of him?" Alice's voice was studiedly indifferent. "Oh, there was quite a lot of him. Belle had just been to hear him sing, and then her brother had introduced him to her. She thinks he's perfectly wonderful, in every way, I should judge. In fact, she simply raved over him.
Yes, I can see that would be exciting business; but what's all this about your engagement to some big actress?" This brought the blood to the younger man's cheek, but he was studiedly careless in reply. "All newspaper talk. Of course, in rehearsing the play, I saw a great deal of Miss Merival, but that's all.
And while we posted up in this way, the Faculty's wives must flock over, one after the other, in a studiedly casual way, and help my wife keep the New Zealander quiet, and not let him get out and come interfering with our studies. The scheme worked admirably; but it stopped business, stopped it entirely.
The emphasis on the last word was so faint as to be almost as imperceptible as the touch of exasperated contempt which she could not absolutely banish from her tone. Her husband, looking up, met her clear bright gaze, and reddened like a school-boy. "Whereabouts 'from home' does he come?" she asked, in a studiedly gentle fashion.
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