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"I am only a plain business man," he would insist, urbanely, with a wave of his hand. "I have merely brought order, method, system, business principles, logic, to the detection of crime. I know nothing of romance. Romance is usually all nonsense in my estimation. The real detective, who gets results in real life, is NOT a Sherlock Holmes."
"Still I can't quite understand why your ex-excellency does me the honor of a personal visit." "Because, senor, in the course of human events Providence has seen fit to reverse our positions. I am now your prisoner and you my jailer," explained Megales, and urbanely added a whimsical question. "Shall you have me hanged at dawn?" "It would be a pleasure, and, I reckon, a duty too.
But to all invitations, all cunning incitements to indulgence, Potts was urbanely resistant. Conscious that a river of strong waters rippled at his feet, freely to be partaken of did he choose, it is true that his face showed lines of restraint, a serene restraint, like unto that which the great old painters limned so beautifully upon the face of the martyr.
"Well met," said Darrell, encountering the Colonel a few paces from his own door. "Pray walk with me as far as the New Road. I have promised Lionel to visit the studio of an artist friend of his, in whom he chooses to find a Raffaele, and in whom I suppose, at the price of truth, I shall be urbanely compelled to compliment a dauber." "Do you speak of Frank Vance?" "The same."
Don't you agree with me?" He showed a row of shining white teeth. Cowperwood smiled urbanely. "Will a forty-thousand-dollar lens be a better lens than any other lens?" he inquired. "Made by Appleman Brothers, of Dorchester, it will," replied the college president. "The whole story is here, Mr. Cowperwood. These men are practical lens-makers.
"Be brief, if you please." "My name is Edward Courtlandt, as doubtless you have heard." "In a large room it is difficult to remember all the introductions." "Precisely. That is why I take the liberty of recalling it to you, so that you will not forget it," urbanely. A pause. Dark patches of water were spreading across their shoulders.
He went to the door, opened it, and, turning towards the stranger, said urbanely: "Sir the door!" This kind invitation was not at once accepted. "You refuse my offers?" said the stranger curtly, without deigning to notice the sub-editor. Mr.
He could shrug his shoulders and play with his beads, and urbanely explain his own helplessness and ineligibility when his influence was summoned, or it was sought to entangle him in warring interests. Oriental through and through, the basis of his creed was similar to that of a Muslim: Mahomet was a prophet and Christ was a prophet.
He might nevertheless have been so urbanely filling up gaps, at present, for the very reason that his instinct, sharper than the expression of his face, had sufficiently served him made him aware of the thin ice, figuratively speaking, and of prolongations of tension, round about him, mostly foreign to the circles in which luxury was akin to virtue.
Like as not he wears a flowing tie, a monocle and pink socks." The man approached and raised his hat, smiling urbanely. It was Baron Tregar. Philip leaped to his feet, reddening. "Excellency!" he stammered. "Pray be seated!" exclaimed the Baron with sympathy. "Such a disturbing experience as you have had affords one privileges."
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