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He thought the persecuted and the persecutors fools about equally matched. He was easy-tempered and humane in the hunting-field he could not bear the cry of a dying hare with composure martyr-burning had consequently no attraction for such a man.
An easy-tempered, genial, kindly gentleman, he had been always much beloved by his friends and, until the great family catastrophe, was popular with the public, but of an infirm and vacillating character, easily impressed by others, and apt to be led by stronger natures than his own. He had held the lucrative office of head forester of Delfland of which he had now been deprived.
'It isn't worth worrying over. Dick is probably playing the fool with a woman. 'Isn't that bad enough? 'No. She may throw him out of gear and knock his work to pieces for a while. She may even turn up here some day and make a scene on the staircase: one never knows. But until Dick speaks of his own accord you had better not touch him. He is no easy-tempered man to handle. 'No; I wish he were.
So at least says human instinct. The passengers collected in a restless mass on the upper deck. The captain was seen going swiftly to the bridge. After a brief word with him the first-officer came down to them. He was a pleasant, easy-tempered man, and did not appear in the least dismayed. "It's all right," he said, raising his voice. "Please don't be alarmed!
The documents obtained through the agency of her easy-tempered kinsman, the late Marquis de Rochebriant, and her subsequent domestication in the house of the von Rudesheims, all this it is needless to do more here than briefly recapitulate.
"It is really insolent of the man, though, to call you an 'idle shepherd' and a 'dumb dog," said Mrs. Irwine. "I should be inclined to check him a little there. You are too easy-tempered, Dauphin." "Why, Mother, you don't think it would be a good way of sustaining my dignity to set about vindicating myself from the aspersions of Will Maskery? Besides, I'm not so sure that they ARE aspersions.
A French actress, clever as French actresses always are, had persuaded, once upon a time, an easy-tempered monarch of this realm, that the paternity of her coming babe was a distinction of which his majesty might be proud.
Nevertheless, when Ruth and her mother came in he bowed affably to them from the nearest end of the next table. "Mamma," said Ruth, very low, "I hope I'm not going to begin being difficult, but do you know, that is really an odious man?" "Yes, I do know," laughed her easy-tempered mother, "but what is that to us?" Mr Blumenthal was reveling in hot fat.
"Joshua was as pious and respectable a man as ever lived: but it was his misfortune to be too easy-tempered, and too proud of his daughter. Having lost his wife, and his eldest boy and girl, he seemed so fond of Mary, that he could deny her nothing. There was, to be sure, another one left of his family of children, who "
Such men became "file-leaders," or "pivot-men," because the taciturn people of the west, though inclined to undervalue a mere talker, were simple-minded enough to accept a man's valuation of his own powers: or easy-tempered enough to spare themselves the trouble of investigating so small a matter.
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