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What with Eugene's fertility in suggesting new methods of advertising, his suaveness of approach and geniality in laying before the most recalcitrant his very desirable schemes, his ability to get ideas and suggestions out of his men in conference, he was really in no danger of not being able to hold his own, and indeed was destined to make a rather remarkable showing.
"Monsieur le Baron, you will keep my secret? Never again, I swear it, will I sin like this. You, yourself, shall be the trustee of my honor." Her eyes and arms besought him, but it was surely a changed man this. There was none of the suaveness, the delicate responsiveness of her late host at Porchester House. The man who faced her now possessed the features of a sphinx.
Yet, at the same time, his mood had a charming reality the suaveness of Andrés Escobar. His, Charles Abbott's, would be a select, an aristocratic, fate; the end, when it overtook him, would find him in beautiful snowy linens, dignified, exclusive, to the last. His would be no pot-house brawling. That was his double necessity, the highest form of good in circumstances of the first breeding.
The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging. The North her co-partner in guilt cannot salve her conscience by plastering it with gold. We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.
"Ask him anything. He will answer truthfully." The Hawk lost no time. He asked: "Dr. Ku, you will perform the brain transplantations for us?" "Yes, my friend." The man's tone was different. Gone was the suaveness, the customary polite mockery; it was frank, open, genuinely pleasant. "Is it true, Dr. Ku, that your coordinated brains will die, if left in their case?"
"Do not forget, M. de Luynes," he said his suaveness all departed of a sudden, and his tone full of menace and acidity "do not forget that when a wall may not be scaled it may be broken through." "Aye, Monsieur, but many of those who break through stand in danger of being crushed by the falling stones," I answered, entering into the spirit of his allegory.
Their politeness is unstrained, their suaveness congenital; they remind me of that New England type which for Western self-assertion substitutes a yielding graciousness of disposition. So it is with persistent gentle upbringing, at Taranto and elsewhere. But I do not care about the ordinary city folk.
He continued to grin with a sardonic humour, with a cynical mockery and defiance. He was master of the situation. Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his cigar and glanced around. His eyes chanced upon the cook. "Well, Cooky?" he began, with a suaveness that was cold and of the temper of steel.
I fancy that Louis' manner toward me, from this time onward, acquired a new respect, but I recognized the fact that there was danger greater than ever before under his increasing suaveness. "Captain Rotherby," he said, "you were not meant to be an idle man. You have gifts of which you should make use!" "In the meantime," I said, "when can I see Mr. Delora?"
Then Alexander turned with an abrupt movement of his great body and with his companions was swallowed by the crowd. On his bed that night, lying straight with his hands upon his breast, he had for the space of one deep breath an overmastering sense of the suaveness of reality. Crudity, angularity, harshness, seemed to vanish, to dissolve.
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