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"Not at all, not at all," said one of the guests, superciliously. "Kindly tell me who was your teacher?" said M. de Ximenes. "My uncle there." "Not at all, my dear niece. I certainly never taught you what you have been telling us to-day.
In nine cases out of ten, the keepers are in league with the servants; and in the tenth, ignorance, dishonesty, or carelessness will prevent any benefit resulting from,their "intelligence." All that you can do is, to take the most decent creature who applies; trust in Providence, and lock every thing up. Never speak harshly, or superciliously, or hastily to a servant.
Knight demurred, and his wife grew hysterical at the idea, but there was nothing, to do but comply. Kennedy glanced at the fourth set of prints, then at the third set taken a week ago, and smiled. No one said a word. Knight or Williams, which was it? He nonchalantly lit a cigarette. "So you say I am this Williams, the counterfeiter?" he asked superciliously. "I do," reiterated Kennedy.
West, Carroll returned, impatiently, "If you mean that their private relations may be made the subject of legal discussion, in the event of litigation in regard to the property, that again is a matter for Mrs. Saltonstall to decide and not her friends. It is purely a matter of taste." "It may be a matter of discretion, Captain Carroll." "Of discretion!" repeated Carroll, superciliously.
"Most men in the financial world do," said Gunn a little superciliously. "Yes; but he asked me if you hadn't a relative of some kind in Southern California or Mexico." A slight flush so slight that only the keen, vivaciously observant eyes of Marie noticed it passed over the young man's face.
At a swinging bar separating this passage from the main office sat a uniformed boy directing and stamping envelopes. Bob wrote his name on a blank form offered by this youth. The young man gazed at it a moment superciliously, then sauntered with an air of great leisure down the long corridor. He reappeared after a moment's absence behind the last door, to return with considerably more alacrity.
He was in the act of tossing away the paper when his attention was snatched back by a half-page advertisement; in which the name of the Orpheum Theatre stood out like a red flag. Mr. Mix glanced at it, superciliously, but a moment later, his whole soul was strung on it.
As though he would have confronted a world to shield her from harm, Eugene threw his arm around his mother's waist, and stood between the two. "If such be your errand, Duke de Bouillon, you must first be the assassin of her son. No blow shall reach her, until it shall have pierced the heart of her only protector!" "Not so grandiloquent, my little abbe," replied De Bouillon, superciliously.
"Trot, if it must be so," said Clarence, superciliously; "but I am a few paces before you." "So much the better," cried the jovial chief. "Little John's mettle will be the more up: on with you, sir; he who breaks into a canter loses; on!" And Clarence slightly touching his beautiful steed, the race was begun. At first his horse, which was a remarkable stepper, as the modern Messrs.
The shops on which Abbey Hill conferred its custom were certainly not the cheapest, possibly not the best; but they were undeniably the most imposing. The proprietors were decorously pompous, the shopmen superciliously polite. They could not be more so if they had belonged to the State, and been paid by a public which they benefited and despised.
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