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A representative of the press, every now and then, would drop in on Blake, or chance to occupy the same smoking compartment with him on a run between Washington and New York, to ply his suavest and subtlest arts for the extraction of some final fact with which to cap an unfinished "story." Blake, in turn, became equally subtle and suave.
He entered the room with a courteous bow and inquiring look. Rising from the chair in which I had rested myself by the fire, I advanced towards him and addressed him by name in my suavest tones. He inclined his head and looked at me more inquiringly than before."
And so he stared, agape, until presently the weapon wavered and was lowered and the woman's voice, touched with irony, brought him to his senses. "Oh," she remarked coolly, "it's only you." Thunderstruck, he was able no more than to parrot the pronoun: "You you!" "Were you expecting to meet any one else, here, to-night?" she inquired in suavest mockery.
In her haste to get to the windows and see the world from the sky, she had secured her hair very imperfectly, and Droop was favored with a charming display of bright locks, picturesquely disarranged. "Good-mornin', Cousin Phoebe," he said, with his suavest manner. "Good-morning, Mr. Droop," Phoebe replied. "Where are we? Is everything all right?"
Here was evidently an opportunity of making use of the short training I had once had as A.D.C. I tried it. I treated the ladies with tons of "tact" in my suavest manner, and repeated the only Dutch words of comfort I knew "Al zal recht kom" but to no purpose. They had not been brought up to appreciate tact; in fact, they were not taking any.
While the suavest of men in the eyes of his fellow-townsmen, his family were well aware that he possessed a temper.
Beckett looked up interested. Incongruously enough a vein of romance ran through the massive strata of conceit, and intolerance, and vainglory, and pertinacity, and pugnacity that made up the very definite structure of his nature. He dearly loved a lover. He was as sentimental as a girl of eighteen, and he melted instantly into suavest amenities at the first intimation of a love-story in abeyance.
Yes, Mrs Clyde did not like me. I do not mean to say, remember, that she was impolite, or grim, or wanting in courtesy. The reverse was the case, as she was one of the smoothest, suavest persons you ever met.
Bromfield was sailing easily into his version of the affair. It was the suavest interpretation of his conduct that he had been able to prepare, one that put him in the rôle of a fair-minded man looking to the best interests of all. "Not the way Durand tells it," answered the miner bluntly. "He says you paid him a thousand dollars to arrange a trap to catch Lindsay."
Bryce?" he said inquiringly. "Dr. Pemberton Bryce?" Bryce made his best bow and assumed his suavest and most ingratiating manner. "I hope I am not intruding on your time, Mr. Gilwaters?" he said.
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